Thursday
Feb162012
Custom Brushes: Workflow Examples Pt.2
Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 8:06AM Part 1 dealt with using custom brushes for their shape, and this video takes an opposite approach. And Don't forget, take THIS SURVEY to enter the 'Custom Brush Design' giveaway!
Reader Comments (15)
Thx again Matt!
I'm totally looking forward to buy this serie!
Hey Matt,
Really enjoying your videos; they've really helped me a lot in keeping up my motivation instead of just being petrified at the amount of stuff I still need to get a good grip on. I never really post here, but in the spirit of learning, I've often noticed in your other videos that when you transform a selection into perspective, you right+click and manually select the distort function from the drop-down menu. I don't know if you know this or not, but by pressing ctrl+t to get the free-transform active, and holding down the ctrl button as you click one of the edges you will do the exact same thing. I don't imagine this'll save you huge amounts of time, but the more stuff you can do with just hotkeys, the better.
Keep this good stuff coming man, I'll be sure to pick up that custom brush design when it hits the store!
Hey Matt,
I'm using Google chrome and I can't load the survey link. Just wondering if I did something wrong, or if you knew about the problem. Anyways great video as always!
Hey matt how are you bring up the color picking with a hot key instead of double clicking the watch in the toolbar?
Sorry typing while dead sleepy.
Hey Matt, how are you bringing up the color picker with a hot key instead of double clicking the swatch in the toolbar?
To Josh: Press the ALT key
@ Josh: Finally, Adobe added in a hotkey for version CS5. It might be in CS4... but definitely in CS5 you can assign any hotkey you like to launch the color picker window. Very handy.
still a little confused and the clipping mask.
In the last video i saw use of the magic wand, but here... how did you select the leather helmet straps?
@ Shahan: The leather helmet straps were drawn on their own layer. If anything is on its own layer (like these straps) a clipping mask will automatically stay 'inside the lines'.
To try it out, make some marks on one layer and then make a new layer on top. "Create clipping mask" on the second layer, and try painting. You'll find that the paint stays inside the shape defined by the lower layer.
Hey Matt.
Just commenting to thank you on everything you've done so far. Looking forward to the next week.
Hey Matt another way to make a clipping mask is make a new layer then click in between the new layer and the painted layer while holding down alt. Nice video ^^.
The clipping mask is so confusing. Maybe I need more time to practice this tutorial. But thanks a lot for sharing this.
The clipping mask is so confusing. Maybe I need more time to practice this tutorial. But thanks a lot for sharing this.
@ Jeremy:
basically think of clipping mask like nesting in HTML, basically the upper layer is stacked inside the lower layer meaning that if pixels in the lower layer (or parent layer) are filled then the upper layer (or child layer) can only fill in those pixels, but if they are not filled in the parent layer then they cannot be painted in....
Hey Matt,
I am enjoying your tutorial a lot and a fan of your since. Would it be possible if you have a downloadable link or separate video of you while working on the paintings such as the interesting character with the helmet above in real-time. Like student watching the master at work. As I find it very helpful to learn and understand the process.
Thanks Matt