This is all well and good, but I want to experiment some more. By zig-zagging my way across the screen I can make some nice brush strokes. By pressing Shift the brush strokes in a straight line between the two points. With a large brush size I’ll start at the bottom left with a single click, then holding Shift click at the top leftish. I’ve got some interesting results from the Round Fan brush so that’s where I’ll start for this tutorial, and for the first go I’ll leave it at it’s default settings. Now when I paint with white on the layer mask I’ll be revealing the young woman layer. With the young woman layer active I’ve added an Hide All layer mask. I’ve moved the image of the young woman sitting on the mountain at sunset to its own layer then under that added a wood texture. Image Set Up – Keeping it Non Destructive In this tutorial I won’t be using a tablet but I will be using the different settings.Īs you can see we have a lot of control over how the brush behaves and I’ll be using this to make several different effects. Used with a graphics tablet it can give a more natural feel for digital painters.

Photoshop Art brushes work a little differently to regular brushes. I looked for Photoshop brushes and they all did a pretty good job, but what I really wanted was a technique that I could use to get various effects.

I recently wanted to put an image on some wood in photoshop, but wanted it to look like it had a border.

Wood brush photoshop