Thursday, December 24, 2009

Is it possible to color in photoshop brushes?

I was wondering if i could color in photoshop brushes, so they could look better instead of just having the black outline.Is it possible to color in photoshop brushes?
Color in Photoshop brushes so they can have more than just a black line? If I understand this question right, LET me turn you on to a little bit of Photoshop's features! Photoshop is a very powerful Digital Image Editing program, and drawing program. The most powerful in the world! I use Photoshop 7, and it's just unreal! CS, CS2, and now CS3 outta' kick A! Okay, enough of that. I'm going to have to show you, how I do it in PS7, but these 'instructions' should transfer over to newer, and later versions also.


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1.With Photoshop running, and your workspace open, go to the left side, to the Tools Menu. At the bottom of the Tools Menu you'll notice two squares, joined at the corner. (In the top right corner there is a double-ended arrow, bent-over, and pointing to the top left square, and the bottom right square.) If you don't see this Tool Menu, I'm 'talking' about, go up to the top header.


Click on Window, in-between View and Help. Click once. Now in the drop-down menu, click on Tools. Okay, you probably know, but if you 'hover' your mouse cursor over the tools in Tool Menu for a few seconds, the name of the tool will pop-up briefly. If you do this on the squares I've described, the title 'Set foreground color' will appear on the top square, and the title 'Set background color' will appear for the bottom square. Whatever color is in the Foreground Color box, is the color for your brush, whether it be a Soft Brush, or a Hard Brush,(we'll get into that later). Sounds like your is Black. The default colors for Photoshop are Black and White, in these boxes. Click once in the middle of the Foreground Color Box.


This will pop-up a small window called Color Picker. This is the Color Picker Chart,( Hey I didn't make these names up! The Adobe programmers did! lol!) You'll see a large square with color in it, a small square to it's upper right, and in-between them a column with a rainbow of colors. Take your mouse cursor, and click once out in the middle of the large square. See the hollow circle that was moved with your mouse cursor? See to the right how the smaller box is now filled with the color, and hue? Whereever you click in the large box, that's the color that will be in the small box. The small box is the color of your brush now! (Well, after you click on OK!) Now, let's go to the column that's filled with all the colors of the rainbow.(Just my term, bear with me.) See the little triangles on each side of the column? This is a Slider. Click and hold down the left mouse button, with your mouse cursor right on one of them, and drag it up and down. See how the color and hue change in the large box? That's how you change the color and hue, and where you click in the large box, set's the color. All you do now, is go to the right, and click on OK. Close the Color Picker window with the Red X in it's top right corner. See how the Foreground Color Box is the color you set? Don't like that color? You know how to change it now! Now lets 'talk' briefly about the Brush Size, and 'Texture'. When you use the Brush Tool out of the Tools Menu, you're looking for Brush Tool (B). (The B is the short-cut key you press on your keyboard, instead of clicking on it's icon in the Tools Menu, if you wish. [ It's a capitol B, so you have to hold the Shift key down, and press the b key, at the same time.] I'm lazy, or just don't want to conform,{Smarten up?}, so I run up to the Tool Menu, and click on it) I know you've indicated you've used the Brush Tool already, so forgive this bally-hoo. There's a History Brush Tool also, just didn't want you to mix this up. You'll need an image, or a fresh canvas to work on, to see this tool. You obviously know that too! lol! Okay when you use this tool you can go up to the top header, and click on the little triangle, or down arrow, next to the brush size number,(Example: Brush: 58 %26gt; (%26lt;-only pointing down) This will give you a drop-down slider, and a chart of preset brush sizes. The Hard Brushes are listed first, with the Soft Brushes underneath them. ( This Brush 'texture' feature also works for the Clone Stamp Tool, the Healing Brush Tool, and various other tools,( If they still have half of these tools. I read That the Clone Stamp Tool would be replaced by another better, advanced tool, in the newer versions). I don't know much at this point, about the drawing aspect, (or advantage/disadvantage), of using a Hard brush, versus a Soft brush. I use them with digital image editing, and haven't drawn with them. Experiment! The above slider I mentioned is a way to choose the exact size brush you want, versus the preset sizes in the chart. You click n' drag the slider arrow to the left, the brush get's smaller, to the right, larger. You can just click right on the line itself, and the slider arrow jumps right to it. Okay, I've been pretty 'windy', and may have over-explained a lot, but I hope this is the answer you were seeking.Is it possible to color in photoshop brushes?
yes just go to the file menu and click on the brush tab if there is no brush tab then shutdown your computer and take it back to the store throw it on the desk and demand that you get what you want (a stupid outline feature that is missing) just deal with it

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