Photoshop's airbrush does a good job with smooth gradients, but if you want something with just a little more meat and interest, there are a variety of brushes that allow you to go from fully transparent to fully opaque with very little banding (sudden jumps in color/value). Jason's Nice Brush from Jason Kim, Rounded Square modified from Tom Scholes, Spatter Soft from Chris Wahl, and Oil Brush from Blur's Goodbrush set None of my drawing brushes are exciting, but they get the job done. This is especially problematic with brushes you want to use for details, so you need brushes suited to that purpose. Brush dabs made at a certain size look mushy when scaled up or down very far. Photoshop does a very poor job with brush scaling. This conte brush is from Simini Blocker's brush set. I like tool presets because they contain all of a tool's information (not just stuff in the brush menu) and can be used for things like the smudge tool.
Copy the file into the appropriate photoshop\presets\tools folder and you can access it from your Tool Presets window/menu. I've included a link at the bottom with the brushes I used in this post. I'll talk about each of these separately, except feature brushes, since they are so highly customized. Texture: brushes that create strong texturesįeature: brushes used as a shortcut to create specific things (ie. Gradient: brushes that are good for making a smooth shift in colors with minimal "banding"Įdge: brushes that can easily create an edgeīlending: smudge tools that help smooth banding or introduce distortion to smooth areas
These are the categories that I find useful for everyday painting:ĭrawing: brushes that work well at small scales and for details In order to make the transition to Photoshop, I had to change how I think about and use brushes. But if you recently made or are making the switch, then it might help. If you are a long-time Photoshop user, this will be a boring post for you.
I wondered what would happen if I used every brush in one image.
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