Adobe Photoshop-Create Custom Photo Brushes

Creating Custom Photo Brushes
Step 1
Open Photoshop and open a photo to use as a brush. If you create a brush at a small size, setting the brush to a larger size than originally created will cause it to lose resolution. But making it smaller is no problem, just like resizing a photo.

Step 2
To first define a brush, we need to select the area. Click the Rectangular Marquee tool on the toolbar.

Step 3
Click-and-drag a selection around the photo. We don't need to remove the white pixels first because they will be transparent in a brush.



Step 4
Go to Edit>Define Brush Preset.

Step 5
Name the brush something that matches the image, and click OK.

Step 6
Now that we have the brush defined, go to File>New and create a new file at 1024 x 768. Click OK.

Step 7
Click the Brush tool on the toolbar.

Step 8
Click the arrow on the Options palette which will bring down the brush styles and size options. Scroll down and click the brush we just created. You can change the size here, or change it by pressing the left and right brackets to make the size smaller or larger. Bring the size of the brush to something much smaller, such as 100.



Step 9
Now for the fun part: click-and-drag with the Brush tool in a curve.

PREVIEW OF RESULT

Step 10
Whatever color is selected in the Foreground in the toolbar is the color of the brush. You can have a jitter between the foreground and background color as well as hue jitter from the foreground color.

Try various photos and converting them to brushes using the same steps here.