
Paint on the stage with your custom brush et voila! If you want to add some other cool effects to your new brush, you can go to Window -> Brushes and play with the settings there.

Scroll down to the bottom of the brushes until you have selected your newly created custom brush. Select the Brush Tool from your toolbox to the left of your screen. To do this, open a new document and fill the background with black again. Now, you just need to test out your new brush. When you are finished designing your brush, select it by holding down the Control key (Command key on a Mac) and clicking on the layer where you have created your brush design. You can create any design that you want in this step. Create a design on this layer that you want to use as your new Photoshop brush. Use: Black and fill the background with black.Ĭreate a new layer. For this tutorial, I have set my document size to 600px X 600px.

It doesn't matter what size you use for your document. Good luck! Step 1: Creating a Custom Brush in Photoshop Follow the steps below and watch the helpful video tutorials as well. First, you will learn how to create a standard custom brush in Photoshop and then, I am going to show you how to apply this technique to create your very own custom smoke brush in Photoshop.

Today, I am going to teach you just that. It is a pretty easy technique that really only takes a few minutes to learn. Knowing how to create custom brushes in Photoshop is a vital tool for every designer.
