Once your shape is selected on the page (make sure you are on the shape layer), go to the menu and select Edit > Define Brush Preset. You can choose any shape you like for this exercise. For the brush, in this example I used a Photoshop shape of a balloon, and drew that onto the page with a fill color and no outline. To begin, open Photoshop and make a new blank template by going to File > New and choose the size of your page. This scatter effect is both a wonderful time saver and a great way to quickly design an impressive illustration, or border or frame. Feel free to follow and put 300 in both the width and height boxes and ensure the measurement value is set to Pixels.In today’s tip of the week, we are going to go through the process of making a brush from scratch using Photoshop, and then modifying the brush preset to create a pattern of scattering. I’m going to stick with a more conservative 300 x 300 pixels document. Plus, generally, a 2500-pixel brush is so big it’s overkill. However, the larger the brush, the slower it will work. Keep in mind that Photoshop allows you to create brushes up to 2500 pixels in size.

Step 1: Create a new document by hitting Ctrl+ N ( Command+ N) on the keyboard.

You can create the shape you want from any image or part of an image. It’s completely customizable and you can create whatever your heart desires.īut, if you’re like me and can’t draw to save your brush, you might like this second way better.

The first is to draw the brush design that you want. I’m going to show you two methods for making brushes in Photoshop.

Method 2: Creating a Brush from an Image.

How to make a brush in photoshop