Create Your Own Brush Tutorial

[Thornwillow]

Hey everyone! Your fresh new mod Thornwillow here to bring you some fun tutorials so you all can make your very own brush sets and well ... donate them to us! http://www.animegalleries.net/bbs/images/smilies/biggrin.gif Uploads doesn't really get a lot of attention right now, but I am hoping to change that.

So come one and come all! Upload your brush sets please and I made a tutorial for you to make that easier. It is below. Now it's very basic, but hopefully it'll help most of you who had no idea.

Also, if there is any typos or something is unclear, please please please let me know so I can fix the tutorial. That's why I save my PSDs. So enjoy! ^_^

[blackwolf16]

I did a simple brush, just to see how to do it. Here it is:

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/8752/custombwbrushsetcopyqf5.jpg
Thanks for the tutorial, I will post a better brush next time.
(Note: BW stands for BlackWolf)

EDIT: Here is a paintbrush I made using a picture of a gyroid from Animal Crossing:

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/1415/gyroidsrp1.jpg

[Atsui]

That was a great tutorial.It realy helped me...But could u do a tutorial with diferent pics(eg:http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m257/anime-gotta/PKMN.png) for Adobe photoshop 8.0?Prity plz:D

[MaruDashi]

Well, I know how to make my own brushes, but how do I properly upload a set? I never figured that out o_o

[Thornwillow]

I know you use Adobe Photoshop Maru, so to answer your question ... (and anyone else who is curious)

I would assume you have a Zipping program of some sort. Whether it be Winzip or Winrar. What you do is after you create your brush in photoshop, it saves it, by default, in the brush presets folder. You can find it in the following location, depending if you run an XP version of windows --

Brush Preset Path
My Computer --> Local Disk [C:] --> Program Files --> Adobe --> Photoshop CS/CS2/7 (whichever folder of the version you currently use) --> Presets --> Brushes.

Then you just look for your .abr file format set of brushes and open it in your zipping program. Zip the file up and you can upload it through AF's 'Manage Attachments' option. Which is what Ookami did for hers.

If you still have problems with that, you can always upload your brushes your DeviantArt and link them in the post here. So hopefully that helps. ^_^

[liltdog]

me confused i tohught this would help me learn how to draw the manga stuff lol whole reason why i joined i dont have photo shop i have paint tho cooooooooool lol im hyper but ya i think i thought this was somethin else

[Thornwillow]

If you want to learn how to draw manga 'stuff', then I recommend doing a search on Google, or search engine of your choice, to help find tutorials on drawing manga. This section of AF is for uploads only, and we only provide resources to the graphic designers of AnimeForum.

[[Boolean]]

Funny thing is...I used basically all of the same steps, and managed to learn how to make brushes in Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8... O.o;

[FinalMarum]

This is only capable with Photoshop? ;_;

[Thornwillow]

The tutorial was designed for people to use it in photoshop, yes because that is the only program I typically use. But as Chimes said above you, he followed the same steps and made brushes in PSP, so I guess it's possible to follow the same principal steps and make brushes in other programs.

I'm only familiar with Photoshop Interface. :)

[Jagan Eye]

Well, since you have a tutorial for Photoshop here, I'll post the one I made for GIMP

[Khanxay]

Or you could just save the image as .gbr file. Just put it as shown. Except you might want to save it to one of your brush directories...mine just happens to be in My Pictures. ^_^

[Ashurii]

Im going to try making a brush wish me the best and thank you for the help everyone!

Thank you,
Ashurii

[MysticFairyDrmz]

well i tried this and did everything but when i did soild color it didnt work right. Instead it filled the whole thing oh well just keep trying right

[Ginny Weasley]

I didn't see this covered anywhere, but how do you make a brush set for someone to download (e.g. like making a brush set downloadable on a graphics site). I feel really lame asking this question, so no flames from the peanut gallery, plz. Kthnx.

[Gaara Lover]

Uhm ^^' I got stuck at where it says " EDIT < Define Custom Brush". it doesn't say that in my Edit tab... o-o;;

[Dead Angel]

Thanx Man I swear ur a lifesaver

[devilsmaster]

I just trying to create few brush set of mine,But no bigger results cam,Since now,i have not my best.