How To Turn ANY Image Into A Custom Photoshop Brush

[@stefanogatti1680]

My god, what a super-quick speaking! I have not even the time to listen and read subtitles (I am not English native speaker) that you are already a couple of steps forward! :-(

[@blyrax]

i know its not easy, boss, but just try paying to his steps and don't be to focused on what he's saying and you should be fine. alternatively it's only a 10 minuite video, if you watch and pause repeatedly in order to understand what he's saying, it will take a while but you'll be alright eventually.

[@DaviMello]

I've been looking for a tutorial like this since forever. Thank you so much it's awesome!

[@ColinDougan]

Very quick and straightforward! Such an important lesson, thank you!

[@paulbroderick8438]

Thank you. Just when I thought I knew everything!!

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

Always something new to check out! :)

[@VerticDesigns]

Nice video man, very clear and easy to follow. I've never really used channels but you made it look so much easier this way

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

VerticDesigns channels are my best friend in photoshop tbh

[@VerticDesigns]

Haha I could tell. But yeah keep up the great work 👍

[@JohnMutch]

Genius! Completely easy to follow and so short to watch!

[@barbbaker579]

Brilliant. The possibilities are endless. Thanks so much.

[@ryzeruffort]

loved every minute of it

[@baslielalene4702]

Thank you.

[@ray_liu]

Awesome tutorial, thank you =D (1st example) 1:21 > (remove background) > channels panel: select the channel which has the best contrast of bg> drag to "create new channel" icon (level adjustment layer: move up black box) (draw black on layer mask)> note: keep the layer mask (create new square PSD document: w/h=500/500px, resolution=150, bg=white) (drag the subject into the new document, resize it, rotate it) > layers panel: select the subject layer> "alt+delete": fill in black> note: now the image layer is filled with black, but it only shows the subject thru layer mask >

[@necrotomy4965]

thank you!!! i learn something new. will be so goodddd for what im doing tysm

[@spearageddon3279]

Awesome. Thanks for making this tutorial. 👍👍

[@musicmachineplayer]

Brilliant tip and well explained Thanks Bud

[@oiaa.6950]

thanks a lot!! i have an assignment due tomorrow and i had forgotten how to do it!

[@efffyzombie2979]

This is useful cause I have a krita brushe I want to use in photoshop and doing it this way is the best

[@priyanshdwivedi8151]

Nice vid straight to the point.

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

As it should be!

[@s4league45]

So useful for noob like me.. Thanks dude!

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

Evan Bahtera no prob!

[@zsoltsalamon4801]

Hi, is there a way to create a brush and keep the colors from the image?

[@1968WadeR]

Thanks! Great videos..learning so much from your videos!

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

Randall W glad to hear that!

[@JayBaggio]

Thanks!!! very cool and easy to follow

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

No problem!

[@ThatArnoldPhoto]

Awesome tip man

[@krzysztofmidek3494]

Can you make brushes from photos at a higher resolution of 300 dpi?

[@nrate1669]

Perfect tutorial thanks man exactly what i was looking for :)

[@aurorapintore9356]

Very interesting, thank you.

[@julygasyart]

thank you very much!

[@GlobetrotterGranny]

Very cool1

[@Doubleaa500]

Is there a way to create a brush that changes when you move it so it can create a procedural lightning bolt?

[@MrDirtyVirus]

Perfect. Thanks for the tutorial :D

[@Joani161]

How would you do for a white and red area you want? I can't get it to select the area -- it selects the whole thing. It is just white with red and a black line at the bottom.

[@claud1able]

Brenden, I have been trying to follow this video for the last three days, and finally today I just gave up, and decided to figure out how to make customer brushes on my own. Reason you are to hard to follow. As a former teacher myself let me give you some friendly advise, 1. Come from the view point that not everyone watching these videos has ever created a brush. So break the instruction a little more. 2. Talk slower, and very precise, and clear. 3. Understand that no everyone processes information at the same rate of speed. I hope this helps!!

[@nonameneeded2943]

Tbh I believed he broke it down very well and it was very clear to me. The only part I think would make it confusing to people so how he uses images as an example for a custom brush which I believe can confuse people newer to Photoshop as all the free selecting and channel masking are different skills that they would have to know

[@THESaSquaSHIsMe]

Is there some way to retain color information in brush? Lets say for example I wanna create a brush of a green leaf with a brown stem, with this method the brush doesn't make a distinction between the two and the entire leaf itself will just be a singular color brush. Does that make sense?

[@breakingbeatz]

Can you save a brush in color too?

[@HuyRebel]

thanks bro

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

Osnapitz Huy pleasure

[@TheKingElessar1]

Nice video. I've seen brushes that have multiple images in them, and every time you use it it chooses a new image from those contained. Does anyone know how to do that?

[@kacp6485]

I'm not sure how to change texture, but i know where you can find it. It's that window with icon of bursh and three hamburger lines, something like brush settings, and there you can for example make brush to have random angle each time of using, or random size, spacing between symbols if your making a line, you can make the shape follow the direction of your draw motion and so so on. If this function you talked about is somewhere, then it's there. I'm sure kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXqoeHqCnJ55prM 👈🏻there ...and this also helped me with what i personally needed: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6e3f36JltGbe9k

[@Alextheartist17]

BAD ASS!!!

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

ASYLUM FILES you know it!

[@nilanjansaha4297]

In my photoshop brush preset is not working

[@dodgetony75]

why do you keep saying alt delete when it turns out to be control delete?

[@DalsPhotography]

Hello Brendan, Im new here. I have a problem, when I go to the channels as my image has a white background when I choose channels the colors show the bck as blue, red, or green... which should I use? Or should I turn the image first into black and white? Thanks for answering back!!!

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

You have to click on any one of the colour channels and your image will turn black and white when you click on them. Cycle through which all of them and pick the one with the best contrast. Then continue the steps as shown!

[@DalsPhotography]

@@BrendanWilliamsTutorials thanks for your answer, but , precisely that's the issue, none of my photos turn into b&w, all of them show the base color of each channel .

[@dbgmac]

Hey Brendan! Great tutorial!! Quick question...when it comes time to filling the layer with black so Photoshop can recognize it as a brush (4:10)..when I hit Option+Backspace on my Mac, it deletes the image. I've tried a bunch of different keys. What am I doing wrong?

[@denniskuh1896]

Had the same issue. Make sure that layer is NOT a smart object

[@nicolicm]

@@denniskuh1896 It's happening to me and it's not a smart object /:

[@kacp6485]

Maybe it has a different keyboard shortcuts on Mac... But the function isn't anything harder than "filling place with front color" so you can easily do it with brush, or with can, or you can set the keyboard shortcut as you want (i don't know english names of all the windows and functions, but yes, in photoshop is possible to find a list of all its keyboard shortcuts, and even change them yourself. If you didn't know, search for tutorial about it :)) on my Pc, shortcut to fill with front color is something like Ctrl+backspace, and filling with second color is Ctrl+alt. But when Macs have Command anywhere when Pc uses Ctrl, i would consider using Command+backspace in your place :-D

[@NintCondition]

For some reason, my Define Brush Preset is not highlighted and therefore I cannot create a brush. Please help with any troubleshooting suggestions you may have.

[@Cedarsea]

wonder how to create a grass brush

[@zamainabbasi674]

Hey , I have a slight issue um I went ahead and tried to duplicate the contrasting channel but when I did it came out pitch black , so I then went on to the levels and moved the arrows but it just turned from solid black to grey and then white, I couldn't even see my image anymore? Any idea on what I might have done wrong. Thank you for your help

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

make sure you havent done any adjustment to the layer before going into channels, make sure you are duplicating only one of the channel colours and make sure you drag it down to the new layer icon to duplicate it. Its likely a minor misstep somewhere along the way causing the issue. Hopefully that helps!

[@zamainabbasi674]

Brendan Williams Thank you!! You were right my layer wasn't right but alas another problem I'm so sorry in advance but I tired to colour my foreground black and again it made my whole image pitch black therefore my brush didn't work properly. I was wondering is it because my image was a pastel coloured one that it happened? Cause the image you use is fairly dark where as mine has a peachish background and a gold leaf that I'm trying to turn into a brush again I apologise for the constant questions 😩

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

there has to be a significant contrast between what you want to create a brush from versus the background; otherwise photoshop will have a hard time trying to decipher. If you are filling your whole image with black its because you have the actual image selected in the layer panel. If you click on the layer mask it will only effect the layer mask when you fill with black. hope that helps.

[@Procetcic]

epic vid

[@ryanruiz9260]

I know its an old video, but you say use CMD and ALT - I assume you are on mac so you should be saying option. I know its a small oversight but just thought I would comment.

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

Yes, my keyboard says alt/option on the option key so I got in that habit back then. I no longer say that in new videos and give mac/pc specific shortcuts 👍🏻

[@amandahancock806]

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[@danisekimball4713]

this does not work

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

Danise Kimball contrast in the image helps to make this work better or else there is more refinement needed. This does work and its shown so in the video.

[@Kinadnuf]

Great, helpful - please speak slower thanks.

[@charleshansen6928]

Slow down and speak English!