Ways To Add Texture To Your Photoshop Type

If you are like most people that have Photoshop, you love it.  The improvements you’ve made to your photos are remarkable.  The images you have created are phenomenal.  But you want more and of course, where there is a want or need, Photoshop has solutions.  Photoshop CS has a plethora of new brush features to take your creativity to another level.  Use the Brush Palette options to make natural media.  Take the time to customize the brush tool so you will be able to move through applications quickly.

First, you will need to decide on a brush tip.  Open a new composition or an open image.  Choose the Brush too and click on Window>Brushes to show the Brushes palette.  Pick Brush Tip Shape and then select a brush tip.  If you are new to this, choose an easy tip like the Soft Round so you will be able to recognize the effects.

Pick Shape Dynamics on the Brushes palette.  Click on the words opposed to the check box so you will be able to control the Shape Dynamic effect.  If you use the checked box, you will not be able to guide the Shape Dynamic.  Next, pull the size Jitter slider to alter the brush stroke.  You can check the results to alter the brush stroke.  You can check the results in the preview section of the Brushes palette before you decide to go with it.

Next, you will want to adjust a few other shape dynamics.  Drag the slider to get more brush elements.  You can pick the amount of randomness the effect has on a scale of 0% to 100%.  100% will give you a lot of randomness in the element.  You can change control pop-up menus to alter brush elements.

To add scattering to the brush, pick scattering from the left side of the Brushes palette.  You can control the number and placement of marks in a stroke with this preset.  Change the scatter percentage to indicate the total percentage of scattering on a brush stroke.  Change the Count value to indicate the amount of brush marks used at each spacing interval.  Adjust the Count Jitter percentage to put more variance to the amount of brush marks used at every spacing interval.

To give your brush texture, select Texture on the left side of the Brushes palette.  The choices in the portion of the Brushes palette allows you to create strokes that appear to have been painted in textured canvases.  First choose the pattern sample in the palette.  Next pick a pattern from the pop-up palette.  Pick a pattern library from the base of the palette menu.

Now it is time to use your brush to paint in your image.  Pick a color and paint freehand in your composition.  You can save your new brush if you like.  This will eliminate the time and effort you have to spend recreating the brush when you want to use it again.  To save your brush, pick New Brush Preset from the Brushes Palette menu and give your brush a name.  Click on OK and you should see your new brush in the Brushes palette.

Now that you know how to create brushes, explore the possibilities.  Make a few brushes and use them to doctor up images.  Have fun and remember to save all of you brushes.  You never know when you will want to pull that same brush out again.  Why go through the creation process one more time?  Use your time wisely and spend more of it playing around and creating wonderful images.  Take your creativity to the extreme with your new brushes.