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Abstract Brushing Tutorial
Topic Started: Aug 16 2005, 11:51 PM (545 Views)
Iron Bonney
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This tut isnt made by me its copied.

Step 1. Make a new image. You may make it any size. I will be using
350x110 pixels, my favorite size for signatures. However, you do not have
to do this tutorial for signatures, it will work for other images such as
wallpapers. Once you have done this, fill the image with black by setting
the foreground color to black and clicking the image with the Paint
Bucket Tool.

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Step 2. Load your brushes. To load your brushes, click the following buttons
shown in the images below.

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Now change the foreground color to white. To do this, press “x” on your
keyboard.
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Step 3. Brush the image until you are satisfied with the outcome. If it is too
white, create a new layer and brush with black. You can go back and forth
brushing with black and white until you are satisfied. Make sure you use
many brushes and not just one or two throughout the whole image.

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Step 4. Give your signature color. I will do this with two color balances.

To do a color balance, click this button and select color balance.

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I used the following settings for the two color balances.

Highlights: 50 0 -50
Midtones: 50 0 -50
Shadows: 50 0 -50


Add some clouds. Filter>Render>Clouds

Highlights: -50 0 0
Midtones: -50 0 50
Shadows: -60 0 -50

For different colors, experiment with different color balance settings. Also, you
may do Filter>Render>Clouds on the last color balance if you like. I thought
the last color balance looked better without clouds in this particular example,
so I did not use them.


Step 5. Apply text to your image. For good fonts I go to dafont.com. My
main font is called Base 4 and my pixel font is called Visitor, which can both
be found at dafont.com
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Step 6 (Optional). If you want to add an image, this step will show you my
favorite blending method.

First paste the image you want to use under the color balance layers and
desaturate it by pressing Control+Shift+you.

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Now, select the polygonal lasso tool.
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Set the feather to 20-30 pixels.

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Make a selection around your image.

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Click this button to add a layer mask and your image will be blended.

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Step 7. Add anything else you need such as a border. There are border
tutorials on this site also if you want to use one of them. Here is my
final result.


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Asema
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That tutorial was good, thanks for posting it up for us to use. Here is the one I made using this turtorial.

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Iron Bonney
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you should download some brushes.
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Asema
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lol, I would if I knew where to download them.
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Iron Bonney
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check this Here
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Lysander
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I made this using this tut.... Great job, btw


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Alyssa Himura
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Uh, which host thing was that under?
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Lysander
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all of my graphics are Photobucket... but if you mean what program I have,its Photoshop 7.0
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Darth Valec
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Is it posible to download that for free on the net?

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Erihn Holcombe
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that helps some, a little, not much tho, but cool thanks for the TUT!!!
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Erihn Holcombe
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hauntedvamp,Aug 19 2005
01:42 AM
That tutorial was good, thanks for posting it up for us to use. Here is the one I made using this turtorial.

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that one you did (the pic) that is hilarious!!!!! !!!
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Alyssa Himura
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Oh, okays. Thanx.
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Lysander
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yeah, I think you can..
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Erihn Holcombe
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huhuhhuh
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General Reamuku
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I find this very helpfull.
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