Photoshop Brush Tool: A Basic Guide

In this guide, you'll learn how to use brush presets, create your very own brush from scratch, modify all of its properties, and play with both blend modes and pressure controls. Abbey Esparza covers the very basics of the Photoshop Brush Tool in this beginner’s guide!

Key Lessons:
00:18 What is the Brush tool?
00:36 How to adjust Brush Tip settings
01:19 How to change Brush Modes
02:12 How to change Opacity and Flow
02:45 The Brush Setting Panel
03:14 How to create a brush
04:18 Brush Setting & Dynamics
07:46 More Brush Dynamics
08:29 How to create a Brush preset
08:55 How to save and load Brushes

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[kiillabytez]

WOW! There really are A LOT of options here. It'd be easy to get lost in it all. I see myself clicking through menus and settings more than actually using them.
Great video, BTW.

[paulpaints]

Goodness!!! This was exactly what I needed but was so hard to find!

[GeneMoretti]

The best brush tool explanation I have found, thank you.

[rgarlinyc]

Thanks AE, clear and concise as ever!

[clajmate]

wow the girl speaker was so good on explaining and the animation and presentation make it more interesting to watch while learning. kudos to all the staffs who made this video

[alandouglasrandall]

Very clear and easy to understand. Subscribed :-)

[takshiljain]

awesome tutorial! covers everything for a beginner :D

[AnisnaNetworks]

Awesome tips, Thanks lady just the right info i needed

[xstoryofyourlifex]

great tutorial, thanks for this video! :)

[JulietteFiszka]

Very good tutorial to get started, thank you!

[hibhaven]

Thank you. Very helpful and simple video for a PS brushes beginner :)

[ushinayee]

Brilliant tutorial. Really enjoyed it. Thank you. The background music is a bit loud.

[mtbboy]

A thing to note there seems to be a bug where the spacing gets enabled in v25.1 beta, so I struggle brush fringed areas. So make sure to go to the brush setting on the right to lower it. Even if it shows as 1 in the left brush settings.

[joseacevedo]

Great vid! I have de brush angle and roundness cross missing, how can i find it?

[Andy-Mejia]

What kind of documents use the preset brush on pdf files?
like 1920 by 1080 wallpaper less or high?

[shanonfrancis]

Where you adjust the brush size and hardness there is one more longer slider below all the brush options. What is that slider? It doesn't do anything when I change it.

[FotisNikou]

This was the best tutorial on YouTube




Btw, do you like my logo? I made it by my own in Adobe Illustrator.

[rajbirkaur]

Hlo guys plzz koi mujhe bta skta hai k mere Photoshop ne jo brush tool hai vo +k jaise a raha mai uska kaise set kru

[Excapepath]

How do you record the animations with the brush strokes, if anyone knows or has a link to video please comment

[FunKayyy]

Why is B set to like several different tools? This is the most unintuitive workspace I've had to deal with.