Customize Brushes - part 4

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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 16

Draw some more birds, this time going from right to left.

step 17

I wanted to add a few more birds so I flipped the brush one more time and did some in the upper left corner.

step 18

Now just a few more finishing touches...change the opacity of the first birds we drew to about 47% so they look more like they are in the distance.

step 19

Next, duplicate the background pic by clicking on the layer and pressing ctrl-j. Then move it to the top of the layers palette and reduce the opacity to about 30%. This help to give the impression that the birds are off in the distance, you can see the sunrays overlapping them a little bit.

step 20

Finally, click on the layer mask icon and using a brush of about 350 px, 0% hardness, paint over the birds in the upper left corner, this will help them come to the very front!

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