There was a time when I only ever used the soft round brush in Photoshop to paint on a layer mask to define where I wanted a particular effect to appear.
But since I’ve been exploring digital art, I’ve discovered so many more ways to use brushes.
Not only can you put a paint stroke on your image, but you can use different colours, you can paint inside the stroke with multiple colours, or even clip a texture to the paint stroke for some really cool effects.
In this video, I demonstrate a bunch of different ways you can use Photoshop brushes with your images for interesting artistic effects using my Different Strokes Photoshop Stamp Brushes. And, if you don’t have Photoshop, you can use .png files, I’ll show you that too.
Click here to view the video larger on YouTube.
Hi Anne. In the video you grabbed a texture from Lightroom while you were in Photoshop. I’ve played it several times but I’m just not seeing how you did that. Could you explain it in more detail how to do that?
Sure! So you have your photoshop window open, then click on lightroom so it is open on top of photoshop. Make sure the Lightroom window is smaller than the photoshop window. It has to be quite a bit smaller so you can see the main photoshop window behind. Then you can drag and drop photos from lightroom on to photoshop. You can also drag and drop from Finder. I’m using a Mac, but I think all this should work in Windows too. I hope it works for you!
Oh, also, this doesn’t work quite as nicely if you do it with a raw file because when you drop it in photoshop, it will open in camera raw. It works better if you do it with a jpg.
Anne, do you have a picture of the brushes to see what they look like?
Yup, right at the top of the page when you click the link through to the brushes here:
https://annemckinnell.com/brushes-different-strokes/