In this movie learn how to create your own custom brushes from scanned textures, load and apply create natural media type strokes. You can even adjust the shape, size and spacing for effect.

Learn essential techniques for imitating natural painting effects like impasto oils, translucent watercolors, and textured pastels with the new Mixer Brush in Photoshop CS5. Jack Davis, award-winning artist, author, and Photoshop Hall-of-Famer, will use real-world projects to show how quickly and easily you can enhance and interpret your images and designs — from subtle tweaks to complete expressive transformations. You'll walk away with new painting solutions that are sure to change what you thought was possible in Photoshop and in your own work.

See how to easily change a photograph into a painting or create unique artistic effects with the Mixer Brush, which offers on-canvas color blending, and Bristle Tips, which let you create lifelike, textured brush strokes.

See ten feature enhancements in Photoshop CS5 that deliver a big difference in how you work.

Colin will show you what the new natural media brushes are all about. Learn how to create a work of art from a photo using the “not much skill required” mixer brush. This one will have you dying to try out these tools.

Learn how to put the new features in After Effects CS5 into action: see how the new Roto Brush, Mocha and and the Mocha Shape plug-in, color LUT support, and more can work in tandem with other CS5 Production Premium tools to transform your podt-production workflows.

Paint expressively with vectors that look like natural media brushstrokes using the new Bristle Brush in Illustrator CS5.

New in Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended - Easily take your imagery and designs in new artistic directions with natural and realistic painting effects. The new Mixer Brush lets you define multiple colors on a single tip to paint with subtle color blends, or you can use a dry brush to blend a photo’s colors to create a beautiful painting. New Bristle Tips enable you to easily paint with lifelike, naturally textured brush strokes using defined bristle properties like shape, length, and stiffness, and you can experiment away by adding Bristle Tips to a variety of Photoshop brush tools.

Join Terry White as he covers some of the exciting new features found in Illustrator CS5 including Perspective Drawing, Multiple Artboard Enhancements and New Brush features.

In this episode of The Complete Picture, Julieanne Kost shows you some of the new painting features in Adobe Photoshop CS5 including the new Natural Media Bristle Tip Brushes.