In Photoshop, the Brush tool is very versatile and you can set a wide variety of parameters to achieve various effects.
Necessary
Adobe Photoshop program
Instructions
Step 1
The main menu for the Brush tool can be found in the settings panel on the left. In this menu, you can adjust the diameter of the brush, the hardness - the smaller it is, the more blurry the edge of the brush stroke. Below is a field in which you can see all the brushes that are in this particular Photoshop. When you load or delete brushes, they appear or disappear in this field.
Step 2
There is a triangle on the right, when you click on it, a hidden menu drops out. Here you can choose the size of the thumbnails that will reflect the brushes. Also here you can perform various actions with brushes: load them, delete, restore, replace and save. You can insert sets of brushes that are already in Photoshop and do not need to be downloaded additionally.
Step 3
To load brushes into Photoshop, you need to go to this menu and select the Load Brushes item. In the window that opens, you need to specify the path to the files with brushes with.abr resolution. Double click on these files with the mouse and thus you will load them into Photoshop.
Step 4
You can create a brush with your own parameters and save it. To do this, paint what will later become a brush. After that, select Edit - Define Brush Preset from the menu. In the window that appears, enter a name for the brush. After that, you can find it in the brush set field.
Step 5
To the right of the brush menu, you can change the blending mode. To see the different blend modes, experiment with them.
Step 6
To the right are such brush parameters as opacity and hardness. The lower the hardness, the more blurry the transition of the brush to the background will be; at its maximum value, the edge of the brush is clear and even. The lower the opacity of the brush, the more the background will show through.
Step 7
There is also a Brushes palette in Photoshop. From the top menu choose Window - Brushes. In the palette, the brush is reflected along the X and Y axes. You can edit it using numeric values or deform its thumbnail. All changes that occur with the brush, you will see in the bottom of the window.
