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Saving a single brush to an existing library
Is there a way to save one brush at a time to a library in Illustrator CS5?
So far as I've figured out so far, you can clear all-but-one of the brushes out of the default library, load the last ...
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Airbrushing flames in photoshop?
I would like to achieve an effect in Photoshop that involves airbrushing flames, similar to what is done in this video:
However, I can't figure out a way to mask the canvas from part of the brush ...
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Stroke a path from thick to thin
I manage to stroke a path so that the brush goes thin -> thick -> thin along a path. Thing is though that I want the stroke to go thick -> thin, meaning I want the stroke to start at its thickest and ...
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Can I change the pressure amount of a brush line –drawn by mouse pen- after I drew it?
I am using Illustrator for doing some calligraphy, and I am not really experienced with this program.
I am using a mouse pen with pressure to draw/write calligraphy. My question is: Can I change the ...
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Custom square brush defaults to circular?
I recently learned to create custom brushes by selecting an area and using the "custom brush by selection" option.
What I'm trying to do is make a square brush with a slight tilt to it (I'm using ...
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Creating personal customized set of brushes
Actually there are two questions here.
Creating personal customized new set of old brushes, where I want
to put different brushes from different sets (like 2 from assorted,
2 from basic etc.) in ...
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Ink in water Photoshop
how can I best replicate an ink-in-water effect in Photoshop CS6? I'm guessing the best way is most probably to use brushes.
The following image is a good example of what I wan't to achieve:
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Permanent Marker Brushes for Photoshop
I'm looking for a way to simulate a permanent marker in Photoshop. All I have been able to find are pre-drawn brush strokes of circles, strokes etc. (Permanent Brush), but not a permanent marker brush ...
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Why is the paint brush painting in a particular layer style?
I was trying to clean up the bottom of this bitmap bookmark by replacing blurry (i.e. Between black and the main grey color) pixels with the main grey color of the bokmarks.
I selected paint brush, ...
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Can one create a scalable brush in Photoshop?
Imagine if I'm drawing an image using brushes. Is there by any chance, possible to use the brushes as a vector and resize/transform them, without losing data?
For instance; if you draw a tree in with ...
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Running ink effect in illustrator
I'd like to create the effect of ink running similar to how it's been used here, but I'd like to do it in vector. Anybody got some great brushes that might work?
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How to create a geometric pattern stroke in Illustrator (with some constraints)?
I want to make the stroke to the left (the green part counts):
All I can come up with is a pattern stroke to the right, but as you can see it is just not right. Every second corner will not align ...
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Make stroke path tips fading fading on both tips in Photoshop
how could i achieve to have a brush like the one in the picture with both tips fading? I checked in the brush window but I could only affect (alpha and size) the ending tip of the brush stroke..
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PS CS6: brush/cursor: Can't change from crosshair to precise when too small brush size
The problem is that when I'm using small enough brush, it seems I can't have anything else than a crosshair. For example, if I'm using brush of size 4px and I'm in 25% zoom. Nothing wrong with ...
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What are useful brush dynamics and tool presets in GIMP 2.8?
In previous versions of GIMP only pressure was recognized by the brush tool. It wasn't much but it was simple. The new GIMP 2.8 introduces an all new brush dynamics system with a ton of customization ...
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Custom PS brush that allows hardness settings
As the title says: How can I create a custom brush that allows me to use "hardness" settings? As far as I've come searching the net, I haven't found any tutorial or how-to.
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How to create/imitate a crack in a picture in Photoshop
How can I add crack to a picture in Photoshop cs5 (with or without using custom brushes) like the one below?
I tried with brushes, but it didn't look realistic.
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Recreating pencil hatching in Illustrator
I’m trying to take a friend’s pencil-and-paper design and recreate it in Illustrator for use in a poster we are creating together. She’s proficient (away from the computer) and it’s my job to get her ...
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Brush presets : Fade doesn't stay selected
I'm using Photoshop CS6. I discovered recently the Fade preset for brushes and wanted to try it out.
So I select Fade in "Shape Dynamics" and set number of steps to 120, but the stroke showing in ...
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Adjust Brush Opacity drag hotkey/shortcut?
I thought I read somewhere that there was a way to adjust the brush opacity interactively in CS6 (13) in the same way you adjust brush size and hardness (ie: Alt+Right-click and drag). In fact, the ...
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Where did my default brushes go?
I was working on a logo design for a client in Illustrator Cs4 when suddenly the default brushes were no longer there. The brush files are still in place but they do not show up in the brushes panel. ...
