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[♪♪] [A closer look at Photoshop CS5] [Presented by Kelbytraining.com]
Hi. I'm Dave Cross. >>And I'm Matt Kloskowski.
One of the artistic features that was added to Photoshop CS5
deals with using brushes, and it's quite a change inside the new version.
It's a pretty remarkable change.
The brush engine has always been very good, but now it just takes things up
a whole notch the way we work.
In the past, we'd have the paintbrush and you had some brushes,
but you were pretty much restricted to basic painting
unless you spent an awful lot of time in this Brushes panel setting things up.
Well, now thanks to some new brushes, including the fabulous Mixer Brush tool--
this one--I'm particularly taking advantage of my Wacom tablet here
so you can see as I'm tilting the pen I'm actually getting a display
which is showing me kind of the interaction. >>Yeah.
But look at all the options up on the Options bar about how I can use this.
It's now like this image that I have in front of me is wet paint.
So instead of just painting one level on top of it, I have this interaction that I didn't have before.
We're usually just painting with the color. >>Right. Exactly.
You could use black or red or white or blue... >>Right. Exactly.
or green. >>Whatever color you prefer.
Purple. >>Maybe pink. Any one of those. >>Sorry. I'll let you go on. [both chuckle]
So you can see here once again where presets are available.
So I can say if I want it to be a wet brush.
Now as I start to push it, you'll see it's actually dragging colors... >>Look at that.
one on top of the other and with many different possibilities.
And that's just the basics.
Of course now I can go into the Options for the tool itself,
and now it has all the different types of brushes
and I can choose the number of bristles, the length of them, all the different options.
So you can see the kind of results,
and this little preview is giving you kind of a heads up to tell you
this is what this brush is going to give you if you set it like this.
And then we can start doing all kinds of painting.
And again, the options are just enormous here
because you can decide if you want to be starting with a color
or just picking up the color as you go. >>Yeah.
It's really pretty amazing now.
The changing colors is amazing in and of itself because it's using the canvas
that's under your photo to determine what kind of brush that you're going to be working with.
Right. Now here's an example of where people would use it for is to say,
"I want to try and take a photo and make it look more painterly."
And that was a task that frankly took a lot of time and you had to--
You still have to have some ability,
but now it's a lot easier. And I've already started here.
All I did was I added a new layer,
and I've got this option set to Sample All Layers.
And as I'm brushing now, I can make my brush a little bit smaller.
But as I go in, I'm just sort of doing brushstrokes,
and you see it's just picking up the underlying colors,
still giving me some detail, and I'm just doing different experimentations with this,
trying different things.
But the key is it's on a separate layer.
So if I show you just the layer itself, you can see
it really does have that kind of painterly look and feel.
And really all it is is a matter of choosing a brush, playing with some settings,
or using the built-in presents.
And the key is putting things on a new layer so when you're painting
you're kind of just picking up colors and experimenting.
Yeah, and I think probably one of the best ways to sum it up
is that traditional artists will get a lot of features
that make them feel right at home with using it.
And then if you don't have necessarily a traditional art background
but you've been wanting to do more of the painterly things inside of Photoshop,
now you have that available for you.
[♪♪] [A closer look at Photoshop CS5] [Presented by Kelbytraining.com]
