Beginner's Brushing Tutorial, By RaVNzCRoFT

[RaVNzCRoFT]

Brushing is quite simple. All it takes is a good brush set or two, and a few minutes. There is no special way to brush; you just brush around until you get something that looks good. However, a lot of people have been asking me how I brush. So a decided to make a video/tutorial on my techniques of brushing. There's not much to explain, so just watch what I do and try to develop some techniques of your own. You can download the brush set I used, Reflux Abstract, at http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/24159623/. You may or may not be able to click that link. If you click it and it doesn't work, copy and paste it into your address bar.



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Enjoy!


--RaVNzCRoFT

[{G}H0g-Jump4h]

sweet tut! i just need to get lots of brushes. i lost all of mine when i system restored a long time ago.


Edit: I made this with ur tut (its not a finished sig or anything, just a background)



Is it any good?

[RaVNzCRoFT]

Yeah, the brushing looks pretty good. Just add some contrast. The only thing I would recommend doing is if you made a new layer for that gradient, delete it. Do it again in those same colors, but draw out the line a little longer. This will make the change from violet to green less abrupt.

[halobuddha]

hey ravn could you maybe give like a gradient brushing tut cause i was trying it and it came out horrible

[RaVNzCRoFT]

What do you mean a gradient brushing tutorial? For the coloring? That's simple, I wouldn't really need to make a tutorial for that. What do you mean

[halobuddha]

nm

[hogmaster77]

well a better way i like to do that looks better than gradient is using colorbalance and then i do the filter clouds on the color balance and it make it only colored in certain spots and then i make another color balance layer and do the same thing with a different color
nice tut ravn

[RaVNzCRoFT]

Well that's the basic way of doing multicolors. Not many people know that gradients do a much better job for multicolors, and they look a lot better. As I'm making the layers invisible/visible at the end of the tutorial, you can see the backround colored with the gradient for a second. Doing the Filter > Clouds thing doesn't make the multicolor very clear. And for that signature I made, the car was silver with blue stripes. So I made a silver and blue striped gradient, and I made it going in the same direction as the car. Gradients look a lot better, in my opinion. And you can customize the colors in them very easily.

[{G}H0g-Jump4h]

yea, i just learned how to do gradients after i watched ur tut. I was like.... hmmm how do i get that color... and i messed with the gradient tool for a couple minutes, and changed the blend mode to overlay (i think) and got a pretty good result.

[RaVNzCRoFT]

Yeah. To color the backround in the tutorial, I used a color balance. But when I made the layers visible, I made a gradient layer visible. I didn't use a color balance for the final signature. So yeah, I made the gradient, and it created the colors 100% opaque. Then I just set it to Overlay, and you get a very nice result.

[wes]

lol i was bored and decided to watch ur tut... its good, i muted my speakers tho

[maca_§]

lol.

Not a bad tutorial.