But first…  a Sneak Preview!!!

In the next tutorial I’m going to remind you that Photoshop is designed for massive photo editing, in 6 easy steps you edit a photo into something magical. I’ll use Photoshop in this case to make my friend look like an elf. Hope you will enjoy my small presentation and have fun trying it.

About the tutorial

I decided to make this tutorial because it is useful when it comes to serious Photoshop editing. So if you think your eyes would look better in a blue color in a certain picture although your natural eye color is green, Photoshop has the answer; (this is also a good way to see if a contact lens color suits you before you actually buy it).

How to:

The 6 Things you have to remember are:

• duplicate layer;
• erase the iris on the background layer;
• use the Magic Wand Tool (W) to select the white circle;
• go to Image  – Adjustments – Hue & Saturation and DO NOT FORGET TO SELECT COLORIZE!
• play, experiment with Hue, Saturation and Lightness;
• right click on one layer and select Flatten Image.

Useful:

You can try it out on the original picture I have used in the video. Please do not steal it or use it to other purpose that training, as it’s copyrighted by us.

And here is the video:

Sneak Preview!!!

In the next tutorial I’m going to show you how to change eye color. I’ll hope you’ll enjoy it. If you have a suggestions about what I should do a tutorial about, feel free to leave a comment and I’ll see what I can do about it, don’t be shy!

original photo by Armand Niculescu

About the tutorial …

With what I have shown you in the tutorial you can do your own wallpaper, you can use it as in e-card, a poster, or even do a nice thing for your friends, they will appreciate it. Use your imagination to create different things you will see that now that you know how to create your own brush, expressing yourself through digital media won’t be that hard.

Attention!!!

When you are doing this just out of brushes, you should have an idea of what you want it too look like from the beginning. First you apply the background color, then the brushes that you want to have in the back and so on, in the end you apply the main brush.

Credits

We don’t believe in stealing art! I have to admit that the brushes presented in the video are downloaded from deviantart (Resources – Applications – Photoshop Brushes).

Useful

If you want to reproduce the image I did in the tutorial here are the brushes … so as I like to say: Brush away!

The video tutorial  Vector brushes creation

Why organize???

When you’ll be moving to hard core photo editing the last thing you want to spend time on is searching for the brushes you need in the multitude of brushes you have loaded. You should get used to loading only the brushes you need, it will save you a lot of time and energy.

How to organize???

Click on the brush button (keyboard shortcut is B) then rightclick on the working space in the upper side of the box opened you can see an arrow, by clicking it you will open a new set of options, the most important one being Preset Manager. As you can see with this option you can Load, Delete and Save set/sets of brushes.

My suggestion to you all is to play around and see for yourself what each option does, I presented only a few in the video tutorial so don’t be afraid to experiment.

Remember!!!

When you create your own brush (as I did show in the first video tutorial – How to make your own brush) photoshop will not automatically save your brush, if you consider that you want to use that brush in the future make sure you will have it then by saving it right then.

These being sayed, here’s the video, hope you enjoy it and also remeber to stay tuned I have a little surprise for you in the next tutorial .

Hello everybody, I decided to make a tutorial about how to make your own brush in photoshop. If you are wondering I am using Photoshop CS4 as every photoshop fan out there. In these tutorials I am presenting my own way of doing things in Photoshop, I am trying to say that there are multiple ways to do the same thing.

Creating your brushes

The main idea of making a brush is very simple, you just go to the main menu and click Edit->Define Brush Preset (it is easier to have a black and white image when you do this). If you happen to have a colored image for a clear brush you should so it like this: click in the main menu on Image -> Adjustment -> Threshold (pick the level that you consider to be more appropriate to what you want to obtain) then do the same thing Edit->Define Brush Preset. Making your brushes is as simple as that.

So here are the images I used in the video tutorial so you can try it first time on them for a clear image of how things are suppose to look: Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file..

In the next video I’m going to show you how to organize your brushes because that is a very important thing when you will work on serious manipulations, you need to be organized.

And here is the video, enjoy: