Saturday Specail 08-28 Adding Details with Brushes
For this week’s Saturday Special, I wanted to share a little trick for using brushes to help add some great detail to your pages.. For this page about our family road trip this summer, I wanted to put dotted lines between each stop to show our route..
But rather than painstakingly brushing each and every circle, or erasing portions of a solid line, I chose to tweak my spacing.. So here goes..
- First of all, make sure you on are a new layer – otherwise, you won’t be able to edit your brushwork. Now select your brush tool from your palette.
- From the fly-out box on the right, you can choose the size & shape brush you want. I used a round size 40, but anything will work.. It just depends on what you want. {If you are using PSE, with your brush tool selected, go to the paint brush icon at the top and it will give you most of these options in a more simplified way.}
- Now go down to the bottom of the box, and check the box next to “Spacing” and then use the slider to decide how far apart you want each brush stroke – my spacing here is 200%. {NOTE: If you want a solid line, be sure to bring your slider all the way down. Otherwise it will default to 25 or so, and although it looks solid when you’re zoomed out, if you zoom in, there will be rugged edges.}
- You can also play around with the different settings under “Shape Dynamics” to achieve a less uniform look.
And one last tip – if you want a stick straight line, hold your shift key down while using your brush.
So your challenge for this week is to use your brush tool to create some sort of line, border or fun doodle to include on your page. Here is my finished page, as well as some from our fabulous creative team.
by Bonnie – check out those awesome stars along the border..
by Jenn – don’t those hearts around the photo and outside edges add just the perfect touch of detail?
Come on over to the forum to play…
A few rules to remember…
-Post your pages in the “Saturday Special” gallery and link it back to the thread in the forum. You can receive an additional point for using new Scrap Matters products; please make a note of new products in your post.
-You have until the end of September to play along, then I’ll choose my favorite to receive an extra point.
-Remember no double dipping…your layout must be unique to this challenge.
-You don’t have to use Scrap Matters products, but we love it when you do!
Happy Scrapping!
August 28th, 2010 at 8:08 pm
Thank you for this tutorial. I want to try this! I hope it works very similar in PSE8.
August 29th, 2010 at 7:59 am
thank you so much! Had no idea this was even available!
August 30th, 2010 at 3:55 am
Awesome post; very informative. I’ve digi scrapped for years now and never new how to do this! I so can’t wait to give it a try and play along! Thank!
February 26th, 2011 at 3:12 am
[...] Once you’ve chosen your brush, check the Enable Airbrush Mode in your palette under ‘Brush Tip Shape’ (you should also see it in the Brush Menu along the top of your program). Play with the settings until you get the desired look you want. (See more on that here). [...]