It’s important to understand this and you’ll probably want the ‘paint’ on a separate layer than the background anyways. This also helps make it more disposable and you can ‘erase’ without erasing background pixels of the image itself. Layers are also covered in-depth in my Basic Photoshop video training tutorials.

They are all kinds of fun different options you can fool around with. Just go ahead and take a look at these different advanced brush options. Note that you have to click on the name field itself in order to enter that specific editing area (so it’s highlighted).

Here the grass brush had color dynamics already on.

With this you have all kinds of options as you can see.

Here I have the pink (how natural) grass brush on it’s own separate layer (create a new blank layer to paint on). This allows me to turn the layer on and off if I don’t want to see it anymore.

You can load more brushes into the brushes palette by clicking on the upper right fly-out menu.

Choose a set of brushes and then click append. Now this set of brushes is loaded and you can scroll through them and choose from this new set.

In the drop down menu at the top left of the options bar you will see your brush presets and where you can manage them. You can also add your own brush preset by having the brush the way you want it and then clicking on the icon as shown.

Now choose a name for your brush and it will be located in the drop down preset picker dialog box for easy access.

If you want you can take a look at the other presets.

You can then look at it’s option in the brushes palette and edit its attributes if you want (to any of the brushes) and then save it as a new ‘user-defined’ preset.

Note that when you switch off of the brush tool to the moVe tool the brushes palette will dim so you can’t move it. To get my complete Basic Photoshop training click here.

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