How to add a brush in "Photoshop", including homemade

Probably every user of "Photoshop" has experienced unforgettable moments of enthusiasm from familiarity with the program, and this euphoria is largely due to the abundance and variety of pre-installed brush sets in the program. However, having satisfied the impatient desire to test them all, we come to a fair conclusion that this is not enough and hastily download (on trial) on the Internet a new set of brushes or several at once. And here the events sometimes evolve according to this scenario: downloaded, excellent, well, then what, how to download the brushes in Photoshop? Is not there such a thing?

Where to add downloaded brushes

Well, firstly, you can "prescribe" the files (.abr) along with the regular Photoshop brushes in the large Brushes folder at: Local disk C:> Program Files> Adobe> Adobe Photoshop CS> Presets (for Windows), Or send the route: Users> {username}> Library> Application Support> Adobe / Adobe Photoshop CS3> Presets> Brushes (for mac OS X).

And secondly, the brushes can be put in any other folder, including a folder specially created for them, and in any place convenient for you, just do not forget where.

Identified, built files, remember the place, and now let's talk about how to add a brush in Photoshop.

How to get new brushes in Photoshop

In the first case, the new brushes will automatically appear in the editor, adding to the list of installed sets of brushes, and in the second option you will have to go to Photoshop, turn on the Brushes tool and click on the tiny triangle next to the brush thumbnail in the upper left of the settings panel .

In the opened window of the current set of brushes, you need to click on the triangle in the upper right corner and select the Load Brushes command in the expanded menu of tasks or do the same, but through the Manage Sets function (which will be more correct).

In any case, the "Downloads" dialog will open, in which you will see below that the "Brushes (* ABR)" file type has already been selected, and you only need to specify any place where the brushes are stored (since add a brush in "Photoshop" "You can from anywhere), and click on the" Download "button. As a result, "newbies" will immediately be added to the current set (note: they will not appear in the list of installed sets, but will only replenish the current set).

In the "Manage Sets" dialog box, you can also access the "Edit" menu by selecting the "Sets" command (so quickly). Here, in addition to loading, the brushes can be deleted, added, replaced, sorted, renamed, grouped into new sets and saved in the Brushes folder.

That's about such a content of information, and many are limited, explaining how to add a brush in Photoshop, but missing one very important detail.

How to "permanently" brush in "Photoshop"

The matter is that the files loaded into the editor from "extraneous" folders, getting into one of the installed sets, will remain in the program until you decide to replace the mixed set with one of the listed ones or "Restore brushes" by default , Because when you accumulate a lot of different brushes in the same set, it's very inconvenient to work.

Thus, for new brushes to get permanent residence in the editor and take their place in the list of installed sets, you need to download files from the Brushes folder in the directory Presets.

Now, podnatorev in the features of uploading files to the editor, you can figure out how to create a brush in Photoshop, because such a problem inevitably arises for every serious user of the program.

How to create and add to "Photoshop" your own brush

And there's nothing to understand here, because it's hard not to notice the command "Define Brush Preset" in the Edit menu, where a window appears, where you will be asked to christen some name Masterpiece, and as soon as you click "OK", the new brush immediately takes place at the end of the current set list.

But all this will happen only if you are ready to print a print, although the editor will gladly "determine the brush" literally from everything that you have open at the moment.

So it turns out that such an interesting task, how to make a brush in Photoshop, in terms of complexity, in fact, reduces to creating a print pattern and after "determining the brush" in the program to manipulate the shape parameters in the palette of brushes. This panel is turned on by the button with three brushes at the top right of the settings panel or the "Brush" command in the "Window" menu.

A drawing for a print can be anything from a single object to an entire landscape with a complex composition, but when creating your own brush, you must adhere to certain rules that determine the quality of the workpiece.

The drawing is created in a new document and preferably with large dimensions, and the background should be transparent. This concerns the finished image or a fragment of it, only it would be good to use high resolution pictures.

If an object is cut from the background, you need to limit it as much as possible using the "Crop" tool. By the way, the edges of the object at the extraction stage should be carefully processed and preferably with the help of the "Refine Edge" tool.

All applicants should be transferred to black and white mode in any convenient way for you, for example, using the "Black & White" correction layer. In addition, you can (if necessary) work on the brightness, contrast, saturation and sharpness of the object.

If you create a brush from the texture, it is recommended that the edges of the selection be blurred slightly before the "definition".

After making sure that after executing the command Define Brush Preset a new brush appeared in the palette, it remains only to fix your creation in the editor, if you have not forgotten how to add a brush in Photoshop, so that it does not disappear after the program is re-enabled. The file saved through the Manage Sets dialog box will inevitably fall into the Brushes folder and remain in Photoshop until you deport it yourself.