Hello and Welcome to Creating a Custom Brush in Photoshop

In this video and step by step tutorial we take a look at how to go about creating a custom brush in the software, Photoshop using the pre-set brushes to create a whole new one.

What is Covered?

In this tutorial, Tim Von Rueden takes you through two ways of creating a custom brush. First is saving out a brush with preferred settings, and the second is creating a brush from scratch.

↓ Below is a step by step in screens that were taken from the tutorial. ↓

 ↓ The first process below saves settings on a pre-made brush ↓

Step 1 – Edit the settings in the Brushes menu on any given brush, in this case, we turned a standard hard edge brush into a sharp spiky brush.

Step 2 – Drop down the Brush Preset Picker and select the new preset (the post it note)

Step 3 – Your brush is saved with the settings and ready to use!

↓ This process is creating a brush from scratch ↓

Step 1 – lay down an interesting shape/pattern etc.

Step 2 – choose Edit > Define Brush Preset…

Step 3 – Edit the settings to match your preference on the new brush

Step 4 - Drop down the Brush Preset Picker and select the new preset (the post it note)

Step 5 – Enjoy your new Custom Brush!

↓ If you have any questions, feel free to ask me in the comment section below ↓