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DuffzillaMaking Natural Brushes for PS

Published: 2006-06-02 11:15:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 123619; Favourites: 2135; Downloads: 7790
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Description My first tutorial
How to create your own natural-media brushes for Photoshop, from making the inksplats, brushstrokes, chalk and charcoal textures with messy stuff on paper, bringing them into photoshop and then turning them into a PS brush set.

Big, big thanks to my editor for making sense of it along the way

The full-view is 1.7 MB and 1316x2721.


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Comments: 348

Duffzilla In reply to ??? [2006-06-04 14:40:13 +0000 UTC]

cool. Good luck with it.

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Twilight-chan In reply to ??? [2006-06-04 08:57:04 +0000 UTC]

This should be very helpful in the future. Thank you for such a well-done and useful tutorial!

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Duffzilla In reply to Twilight-chan [2006-06-04 14:40:53 +0000 UTC]

No problem. I only hoped, when I was making it, that it would be of use to some people. I hope it helps

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dso [2006-06-04 08:37:41 +0000 UTC]

Great job on your first tutorial! It got DD Most people don't get that, no matter how they try.

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Duffzilla In reply to dso [2006-06-04 14:42:37 +0000 UTC]

I had some editorial help but yeah, I just never saw a self-contained tutorial on making them from scratch to saving the set.
I'm glad people are finding it useful though.
Thanks.

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macncheese45 In reply to ??? [2006-06-04 07:59:32 +0000 UTC]

Ooo, thank you for this!

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Duffzilla In reply to macncheese45 [2006-06-04 14:42:53 +0000 UTC]

no problem

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Mareth In reply to ??? [2006-06-04 07:34:40 +0000 UTC]

Awesome tutorial! ^^

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Duffzilla In reply to Mareth [2006-06-04 14:45:49 +0000 UTC]

thanks

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phantompony In reply to ??? [2006-06-04 07:21:42 +0000 UTC]

Wow. Thank you very much for this.

Simple to understand and full of nifty tricks. Like shortcuts I never knew about

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Duffzilla In reply to phantompony [2006-06-04 14:46:06 +0000 UTC]

love shortcuts
Thanks

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sertaca In reply to ??? [2006-06-03 14:56:33 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for your effort.

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Duffzilla In reply to sertaca [2006-06-04 14:47:28 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome

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Tordo In reply to ??? [2006-06-03 03:42:37 +0000 UTC]

Good tutorial, this is something I wanted to know and it's really easy to understand.

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Duffzilla In reply to Tordo [2006-06-03 10:45:16 +0000 UTC]

Cool

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Tordo In reply to Duffzilla [2006-06-04 04:30:33 +0000 UTC]

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DrewGreen In reply to ??? [2006-06-02 19:12:53 +0000 UTC]

This should definately come in handy! Thanks for making this.

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Duffzilla In reply to DrewGreen [2006-06-02 20:04:46 +0000 UTC]

I hope it does

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fasth In reply to ??? [2006-06-02 16:01:25 +0000 UTC]

great! almost makes me wish I wasn't so damn lazy...

But hey, great tutorial!

And it kind of make me want to see walkthroughs and all different sort of stuff from you... *mint squint*

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Duffzilla In reply to fasth [2006-06-02 17:21:18 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, get off yer arse and break some pens open.
thanks, chief.

I don't think I'd know where to start with putting a walkthrough together... anyway, I doubt there's any great mysteries about hows I makes me pics.

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waylanderdslayer In reply to ??? [2006-06-02 14:40:35 +0000 UTC]

Excellent tutorial man. Great work!

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Duffzilla In reply to waylanderdslayer [2006-06-02 17:38:36 +0000 UTC]

cheers

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cogwurx In reply to ??? [2006-06-02 13:24:13 +0000 UTC]

great job....mmmmgrunge brushes.

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Duffzilla In reply to cogwurx [2006-06-02 17:38:22 +0000 UTC]

thanks

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AutumnPhyre In reply to ??? [2006-06-02 12:07:45 +0000 UTC]

Fantastic! ^__^ thankyouuuuuuuu very useful ^^

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Duffzilla In reply to AutumnPhyre [2006-06-02 14:44:28 +0000 UTC]

Dunno if you've seen this account ~BrushMakers

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AutumnPhyre In reply to Duffzilla [2006-06-02 21:58:28 +0000 UTC]

omg thats awesome! Thankyou

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Duffzilla In reply to AutumnPhyre [2006-06-02 14:36:07 +0000 UTC]

no problem. Glad it's of some use..

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nicolas-gouny-art In reply to ??? [2006-06-02 11:56:07 +0000 UTC]

very interesting tuto... i like to use weird pencils

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Duffzilla In reply to nicolas-gouny-art [2006-06-02 14:37:41 +0000 UTC]

good idea. I did some scribbles with a thin black marker, inverted them and with a glow on them, it's a great way to reproduce those long-shutter speed light trails that some photographers do.

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maxytaxy In reply to ??? [2006-06-02 11:54:01 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, I've never thought of doing that way before.

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Duffzilla In reply to maxytaxy [2006-06-02 14:38:25 +0000 UTC]

excellent.

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aturkone In reply to ??? [2006-06-02 11:44:17 +0000 UTC]

lovely tut!

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kuschelirmel In reply to ??? [2006-06-02 11:36:24 +0000 UTC]

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Duffzilla In reply to kuschelirmel [2006-06-02 11:39:15 +0000 UTC]

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kerian In reply to ??? [2006-06-02 11:32:59 +0000 UTC]

how cool is that .. appreciate you care to share your knowledge with others .. thx a lot. btw .. do you use a drawing board (u know that input device thing ) .. can u suggest any good but affordable ones?

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Duffzilla In reply to kerian [2006-06-02 11:37:23 +0000 UTC]

I do, but unfortunately I got mine for cheaper than it's normal price so I don't know a whole lot about different tablets.
WACOM are definately the world-leader with graphics tablets and their 'Graphire' ones are their budget range, I hear they're pretty good but I'm not certain because I've never used them.

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kerian In reply to Duffzilla [2006-06-04 19:14:53 +0000 UTC]

still .. at least a hint. thx for that.

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Wezza-T In reply to kerian [2011-06-03 10:15:48 +0000 UTC]

I use a WACOM Bamboo: Pen and it cost me about £50. I think its brilliant. Very easy to set up and once you get used to it, it's quite easy to use as well. If you are looking for a cheap one, that's what I would recommend.

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Yeti-Yeti In reply to ??? [2006-06-02 11:25:01 +0000 UTC]

Heaps cool!

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Duffzilla In reply to Yeti-Yeti [2006-06-02 11:28:26 +0000 UTC]

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Chameleon2 In reply to ??? [2006-06-02 11:23:20 +0000 UTC]

very nice tutorial

ctrl+a works for selecting all as well (for the deleting brushes)

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Duffzilla In reply to Chameleon2 [2006-06-02 11:28:00 +0000 UTC]

Really? Does that work for v.7?

I know those kind of windows things have been improved in CS and CS2 but 7 is the most popular version so I just want to make sure that shortcut works.

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Talescaper In reply to ??? [2006-06-02 11:19:09 +0000 UTC]

This will come in handy. Thank you. Also for the shortcuts.

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Duffzilla In reply to Talescaper [2006-06-02 11:20:14 +0000 UTC]

cool

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Dillen In reply to Duffzilla [2006-06-04 11:29:56 +0000 UTC]

Oh my god! Ive allways deleted all of the brushes one by one.
That shortcut is just what I needed
I feel like such an idiot for not trying that....
I knew it worked in windows....


Thanx!! the rest is also really useful for improving my brush-quality

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Duffzilla In reply to Dillen [2006-06-04 14:38:01 +0000 UTC]

Cool. I'm glad it helped.

Thank you

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