A fun thing to do in Photoshop is to make your image brushed. This
is a lot easier than it sounds and you can make anything into a brush. To start
I have made some marks by hand using India ink, you can use anything this is
just an example. Once the image is on your computer then open it in Photoshop.
The next step is to choose something which you think will
work well as a brush. Ink splats and smudges are often a good choice. I chose a
small smudge from the image and cropped it using the polygonal lasso tool
on the left hand tool bar. After doing this I then clean up the image so only
the part I want is showing.
My selection still is not very clean. There is still a light
grey background and the ink mark is not as dark as I would like it. To fix this
I go into image, adjustments and the levels. The levels window allows you to change
the intensity of a colour. After playing around with it I finally get rid of
the grey background and darken the ink smudge.
Now that I am happy with my smudge I can make it into a
brush. To do this select what you want to use and then go to edit and then
define brush preset. This opens a window which lets you name your brush. When
you click OK your brush will be added to the bottom of the brush menu. At this
point you can use it like any of the default ones.
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