This setting determines how far away from the brush stroke the leaves might end up - I’ve set mine to around 300%. Now click on Scattering, and increase the Scatter amount, checking the Both Axes checkbox while you’re at it. You can see how this might affect the brush in the preview box. Also check the Flip X Jitter and Flip Y Jitter checkboxes. For all of the jitter-related settings ( Size Jitter, Angle Jitter, and Roundness Jitter), drag the sliders to 100%. Under Brush Tip Shape, make sure the Spacing checkbox is checked, and move the slider to about 80%. Open up the Brushes palette and start playing with the options. How closely they are spaced depends on how quickly you move your mouse.

If you click and drag, however, you get a line of leaves, like the one shown below. The flyout box - called the Brush Preset picker - has another small arrow click this to reveal the brush options and then choose Reset Brushes.īy itself, the brush draws a leaf shape when you click once on your image canvas. If you don’t see it (the leaf brush should be available in Photoshop CS2 and above), you may need to reset your brushes. Look for the leaf brush, circled in red below. From the Options bar, click the little arrow next to the brush to display all of the available brushes. Not so! With the power of Photoshop brushes, creating an effect similar to this can take you minutes, rather than hours! If you have yet to experiment with Photoshop brushes, you might be thinking that we’ll be creating these leaves individually - rotating them, squishing, coloring, and otherwise transforming them, until they’re perfectly and uniquely arranged. Let’s take a look at how we can use Photoshop to create a beautiful scattering of leaves. We’ll also cover how to expand your brush options even more by loading other people’s brushes and even making your own! Mimicking Nature In this article, you’ll learn how to use the Photoshop Brushes palette to create some awesome graphic effects to use on your web sites. If you’re interested in working with textures, please see 40 Excellent Photoshop Tutorials for Textures and Backgrounds and 25 Photoshop Tutorials for Working with Textures at Vandelay Design.The Photoshop brush tool can do a whole lot more than make fuzzy-edged shapes. In Obscuro Old Paper Brushes (12 brushes) Scratch Splat Grunge Brushes (15 brushes) Grungy Abstract Texture Brushes (10 brushes)Ĭorner Grunge Texture Brushes (10 brushes) Powered by Shutterstock Free Texture Brushes:

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