How to create a customized Brush

Hi Folks, Today i'm gonna show you how to make a customized brush. Why always using the predefined brushes or downloading them...lets make a new brush as you required.

Open a image that you want to make it as a brush. Here i have downloaded a paint splatter image to show how to make that as a brush. Now the image by pressing ctrl+o.

Now to make a brush we have to make it black and white. More the pic's blackness more the brush quality. Now Desaturate it by pressing shift+ctrl+u or Image -> Adjustments -> Desaturate

After Desaturating the image looks like this.

To be more effective press ctrl+l and make it black by setting the values as shown. You can change it as per your requirements.

Now just select the portion of the image where it is present.

Now goto Edit -> Define Brush Preset

Name your brush and press ok.

Thats it. Your brush has been created. Now you can see it in your brush presets. In the next post i'll show you how to customize your brush.

Create brushes of your taste and add them to your pics. Thank you :) Any queries leave a comment.

How to create a folded paper effect to a text in photoshop

Hello friends, now i'm gonna show you how to make a FOLDED paper effect to your text and a 3D effect to it. You can use this in your pics to make them look much better.

Create a new file(ctrl+n). You can add a gradient effect to it.

Select the Horizontal text type tool and select origram font. You can download this font from https://dribbble.com/shots/1077232-ORIGRAM-Free-Font

Now type in the text. You can align the text by selecting text layer and Background layer, then select move tool and align it using transform controls.

Rasterize the text layer to apply some effects to the layer(Only text layer should be selected).

Go to Layer -> Rasterize -> Type

To make the folded effect to the letter f, select a portion of it as shown using Rectangular Marque Tool (Only text layer should be selected)

 Now select the Burn Tool

Set the Exposure to 100% and apply it in the selected area such that it should look like this

Apply this to all letters by selecting a part of the letter and applying Burn tool effect to those. After applying effects to all letters it looks like this.

Now let us add a 3D effect to it by creating a New Layer which contains shadows of all letters.

Select Eclipse Tool from the tool box and draw a eclipse under f and fill it with black color.

Draw these for all letters and align them using Transform controls

To bring an awesome effect to the shadow layer, first merge all the layers.

Then apply Gaussian Blur effect to this layer to make it realistic.

Go to Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur

Set the radius as you required. Here i'm setting it to 10 pixels and click ok. Then you will get this.

You can also reduce the opacity. Here is the outlook of what we have created.

Add these effects to your photo so that they look much better. Thank you :) Any queries leave a comment.

How to create a warped shadow effect in photoshop

Hi, folks. I am gonna show you how to create a warped shadow effect as shown above. This can be done with any image. Here i am taking a rectangle shape to create a warped shadow effect for it.

Now make a duplicate layer of the image(press ctrl+j). Rename it as shadow. Now, fill it with black color and it below the main image as shown.(Note: Shadow layer should be below the Rectangle layer)

Now, select the shadow layer and go to Edit -> Transform path -> warp.

Warp the shadow layer as shown

press Enter. Then go to Layer -> Rasterize -> Layer to rasterize the shadow layer.

Cut the unwanted part of shadow layer by selecting Rectangular Marque Tool in the tool box and select the unwanted layer and press Delete(make sure that you select shadow layer). Selection is as follows:

Now, let us add gaussian blur effect to the shadow layer.

Use radius around 5 pixels and press OK.

Now, make little changes to shadow layer so that it looks realistic. Reduce the width by pressing ctrl+t

Again duplicate the Rectangle layer and warp it as shown(do all the steps mentioned above)

The new layer is renamed as Shadow Up and warped. Again do the tasks upto Gaussian blur as mentioned. Here is the outlook of what we have created.

Add these effects to your photo so that they look more good. Thank you :) Any queries leave a comment.