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Creating and Using Custom Brushes in Photoshop Elements

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Creating a Custom Brush - Saving Variations of the Brush

Advanced Brush Options
Now let's customize the brush and save different variations of it. Select the brush tool, and load your paw brush. Set the size to something smaller, like 30 pixels. At the far right of the options palette, click "More Options." Here we can adjust spacing, fade, hue jitter, scatter angle, and so on. As you hold your cursor over these options, you'll see pop-up tips telling what they are. As you modify the settings, the stroke preview in the options bar will show you how it will look when you paint with these settings.

Put in the following settings:

  • Spacing: 150%
  • Hue Jitter: 80%
  • Scatter: 10%
  • Angle: -90°

Then go the brushes palette menu amd choose "Save Brush..." Name this brush "Paw brush 30px going right"

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