So, you’ve learned the basics of how to use Photoshop brushes. What now?There’s a whole lot of options for those brushes, actually! You can use Photoshop’s brush options to change the orientation, shape, spacing, scattering, angle, etc of how those brushes are applied. This tutorial will show you a few of those options, as well as some examples of how they can be used to create patterns, etc.
This tutorial is suitable for any Photoshop user, from beginner to advanced. However, a more advanced user will understand all of the different brush options much more clearly. A beginner can still follow along, though. If you have trouble understanding my explanations of the different options, try them out for yourself and see what they do. Or, stick to the steps that I specifically tell you to do, and you’ll see some changes in the brushes yourself!

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Excellent tutorial Stephanie!!! Looking forward to speaking with you and I hope you are feeling well
Love the new sets also - thank you.
congratulations!!
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i love woman who take time to explain their science to any net users!
wish you the best and i promise to learn abouit your brushes tutorials!
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Thanks so much, Stephanie! This is very, very helpful.
Pat
THANK you so very much! I just LOVE your work and you are such a wonderful help!
Thank You!!!, will hope this loads into Adobe Photoshop Elements3.
Your website is AWESOME! Thank you for making so much information available.
Sandy
you rock! i love your site, you actually saved my life… i totally need these info… keep it up, and more power to you!
HI there…
Awesome tutorial!
but i can’t find the “Spacing” in single stitch tutorial…Can u explain to me where to find it?
thx!
I Love your tutorial!!!! easy to follow!! Please keep it up!!
WOO-HOO, thank you Stephanie, you answered so many of my questions!
i loveeeeeeeeeeeee ur tutorial…. awesome work *flowers to ya* ^_^
stephanie thanks for ur brushes ;=)
So glad that you’re all enjoying it, and that it’s easy to understand! I always worry about that, since I tend to be too wordy sometimes, lol
As for where the “spacing” was on the stitch part, I emailed Nia, but in case anyone else is having trouble (I wasn’t very clear on that, I admit!), it’s back under “brush tip shape”, like we did earlier in the tutorial. Sorry for the confusion!
I love your brush sets and tutorials! I have learned so much, and I really appreciate you taking the time to explain all this to us.
Thank you!
THANK you so very much! I just LOVE your work and you are such a wonderful help but can you tell me how to create x stitch
Peace people
We love you
Thanks a lot. That tutorial was very helpful. I was wondering how artists like Peter Jaworowski and Nik Ainely were able to produce such random patterns.
Another marvelous tutorial! I appreciate you sharing your knowledge. However the link to the single-stitch.abr isn’t working. Should I try again later?
Hi,
I just found your website today and I want to thank you for your great tutorials.
They are really useful and the free brushes are great as well.
Love your site design too.
Thanks.
Thank you very much for the excellent tute and brushes.
Sure thing! Hope they come in handy.
Just wanted to thank you for sharing your talent with us. You are a fantastic resource.
Your brush techniques tutorial has been very helpful for me; thanks writing and sharing it.
You’re very welcome! Thanks for the kind words.
This is a great tutorial and I have saved it. I’ve made a lot of my own brushes but these are more mechanical than artistic in nature. I know this question may be a bit off the wall, but it will help me a lot if you have an answer for it. Let’s start with a simple screw head…just a circle with a slot thru the center. First I draw a path and then hit the screw brush. It follows the path perfectly, but there’s one tiny problem. All of the slots face the same direction and this never happens in real life. Is there an easy way to make the slots appear random? If I can do that, it opens up a whole new can of worms
This is a great tutorial and I have saved it. I’ve made a lot of my own brushes but these are more mechanical than artistic in nature. I know this question may be a bit off the wall, but it will help me a lot if you have an answer for it. Let’s start with a simple screw head…just a circle with a slot thru the center. First I draw a path and then hit the screw brush. It follows the path perfectly, but there’s one tiny problem. All of the slots face the same direction and this never happens in real life. Is there an easy way to make the slots appear random yet still follow the path?? If I can do that, it opens up a whole new can of worms
Yep. You can randomly have the brush “tilt” itself one way or the other by using the “Angle Jitter” slider within the “Shape Dynamics” tab, just like I explain in this tutorial. If that’s all you have turned on, what will happen is that it will randomly tilt the screw brush around at various angles each time you click to use it. That’s it!
Hope it helps.
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