Customize Brushes - part 2

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This tutorial will show you how you can create your own brushes and customize them to add some finishing touches to your Photoshop creations. Specifically I will show you how to create a flock of birds brush and a school of fish brush. This tutorial was made using Photoshop CS2, but it is possible to do with older versions.

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step 6

The next three steps show what settings I chose for the flock of birds brush. These are really a matter of personal taste and usually require some trial and error.

Here are the settings for Shape Dynamics.

step 7

Here are the Scattering options.

step 8

And finally the Other Dynamics settings

step 9

Once you've played with the settings and are happy, you want to make sure and save the brush settings. This is done by clicking on the little arrow in the brush tab, and then selecting New Brush Preset. You can then give your brush a name.

step 10

Now lets use our brush on a real photo. Open up whatever source file you want to use. For this tutorial I will use a source from sxc.hu (http://www.sxc.hu/photo/964480 - thanks redvisualg).

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