You can change the brush for every Photoshop tool that uses a brush, so for example, the eraser and clone stamp brushes can be customised to give a more organic result than you’d get with a round brush. To save Photoshop from getting bloated with too many brushes I like to load only the brushes I need for a project and then I’ll remove them afterwards. This only deletes the reference in Photoshop and not the brush itself from your hard drive. You can remove a brush by right clicking and deleting. There’s other ways to install brushes but this is the method I like best. If you get a message asking if you want to replace or append the brushes choose ‘append’ to add the brushes to the list rather than replacing the current ones. This adds your new brush(es) to the bottom of the brush list. Navigate to the downloaded brush you wish to add (it will have the extension.

In here click the cog icon on the right hand side and select Load Brushes. Firstly, if they come as a zipped file make sure you unzip them, then in Photoshop load your brush tool (b) and on the brush options bar click the drop-down arrow next to the brush size to load the Brush Preset Picker. Once you’ve found and downloaded your brushes you’ll need to install them. And guess what? The majority of brushes are FREE! Just keep in mind that the more brushes you have, the longer your brush panel takes to load. If you just want to browse through the types of brushes available Brusheezy is a good place to start. But if you know the kind of brush you want, head to Deviantart or even just Google and type in (for example) “birds Photoshop brush”. Photoshop comes with some brushes of its own but to get the really interesting ones you have to do a little hunting. How to find and install Photoshop brushes

You can then customise these further by playing around in the brush options, adding colour, and using the transform tool to move and warp the brush as you desire. And that’s just a small sample of the brushes available. With a single mouse click I created grass, smoke, the moon, scattered leaves, hair, birds, blood and ink spatters, clouds, stars, fire trees and snow. Here are some examples of Photoshop brushes. And the best part is you don’t even have to be able to paint or draw! Hooray! But if you spend some time with the brush panels you’ll discover that using different brushes not only makes your work easier but will give life to your photography in ways you’d never dreamed were possible. Until now you might only have used Photoshop’s standard round brush to paint masks that hide and reveal layers. One of Photoshop’s coolest features is the ability to customise and import different brushes.

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