Create A Brush Tip From An Image; Create A Brush And Set Painting Options; Standard Brush Tip Shape Options - Adobe Photoshop CS6 User Manual

2. Select an option set on the left side of the panel. The available options for the set appear on the right side of the panel.
Click the check box to the left of the option set to enable or disable the options without viewing them.

Create a brush tip from an image

1. Using any selection tool, select the image area you want to use as a custom brush. The brush shape can be up to 2500 pixels by 2500
pixels in size.
When painting, you can't adjust the hardness of sampled brushes. To create a brush with sharp edges, set Feather to zero pixels. To create
a brush with soft edges, increase the Feather setting.
Note: If you select a color image, the brush tip image is converted to grayscale. Any layer mask applied to the image doesn't affect the
definition of the brush tip.
2. Choose Edit > Define Brush Preset.
3. Name the brush, and click OK.

Create a brush and set painting options

1. Select a painting, erasing, toning, or focus tool. Then choose Window > Brush.
2. In the Brush panel, select a brush tip shape, or click Brush Presets to choose an existing preset.
3. Select Brush Tip Shape on the left side of the Brush panel, and set options.
4. To set other options for the brush, see the following topics:
Adding dynamic elements to brushes
Determining the scattering in a stroke
Creating textured brushes
Determine how a brush changes dynamically
Drawing or painting with a graphics tablet
5. To lock brush tip shape attributes (retaining them if you select another brush preset), click the unlock icon
icon .
6. To save the brush for use later, choose New Brush Preset from the Brush panel menu.
Note: To save your new brush permanently or distribute it to other users, you must save the brush as part of a set of brushes. Choose
Save Brushes from the Brush Presets panel menu, and then save to a new set or overwrite an existing set. If you reset or replace the
brushes in the Brush Presets panel without saving it in a set, you could lose your new brush.

Standard brush tip shape options

For standard brush tips, you can set the following options in the Brush panel:
Size Controls the size of the brush. Enter a value in pixels or drag the slider.
Brush strokes with different diameter values
Use Sample Size Resets the brush to its original diameter. This option is available only if the brush tip shape was created by sampling pixels in
an image.
Flip X Changes the direction of a brush tip on its x axis.
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. To unlock the tip, click the lock
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