Photoshop 7.0 Smudge Brushes !EXCLUSIVE! Free Download
Jocelyn Kahler
Select Finger Painting in the options bar to smudge using the foreground color at the beginning of each stroke. Deselect Finger Painting to use the color under the pointer at the beginning of each stroke.
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I'm trying to implement a smudge tool like one you would find in Gimp or Photoshop. I've tried lots of variations but they all have problems. The basic method I've tried for smudging from position P1 to P2 on an image is:
It looks fine and smudges as expected but the main problems I'm having is that the smudge seems to make things darker. Especially when using a small brush spacing, repeated smudging will turn the area to black. Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong or some standard algorithms I can look at? I've had a look at the Gimp source but it's very hard to follow.
How this enters when creating a smudge tool is that the smudge is rendering very low alpha pixels (usually from a masking effect, or simply from the original bitmap itself). When many of these bitmaps are rendered on top of each other (as in a smudge) it turns grey.
For digital painting I always go to Clip studio paint - which has brilliant blending and smudging - I've tried using AP but can't get the results I'm after, although there are some great brushes available from Frankentoon and Daub which are pretty good, just wish you could mix and blend like Clip Studio
Yes, I have tried Clip Studio paint and do like it . Being a Photoshop user for decades , I am actually thrilled with Affinity Photo. AP so closely matches the UI of photoshop so there is virtually no learning curve. AP is optimized for the latest OS and is lightning fast whereas PS has to deal with legacy code which makes it rather bloated...
Greetings! I have tried the pixel moshpit smudge brushes... and they are okay but don't give me the immediate airbrush look that I am after but I find I have to "work" these moshpit brushes to get the airbrush look.
Also, a hidden treasure with the painting brushes along with the eraser brushes is that the Opacity settings for each of the brushes is hardwired to the numbers above the letters on the keyboard. So #1 gives 10% opacity setting , #2 gives 20% opacity setting, etc all the way up to # 0 which gives you full 100% opacity on your chosen brush....
Even though people have been requesting a smudge brush for more than six years for Mudbox, apparently the only program that does smudge brush in 3d textures is Photoshop Extended (which is buggy as heck.)
Just speaking for myself, the reason this is such a big deal to me is because the function of the smudge brush is integral to how my brain ideally processes illustration. In 2d, when I am just sketching out an idea, no exagerration, about 10 percent of my pen strokes are putting down pixels with the paint brush and nearly 90 percent of my pen strokes are pushing the pixels around with the smudge brush. Does anyone else function similarly?
I know Mudbox has had a smudge brush requested over and over again, I even opened up an account on that site just so that I could upvote that feature, has there ever been an official response by Pixologic or Autodesk?
Spotlight in zbrush has always had a smudge that is not blur but real smudge. You are just smudging the image you paint on the model and only have to reapply it to the surface which is no biggie. Also sculpting models and usnig the various move brushes zbrush is just one big smudge fest
Not to mention what colour would you smudge with if you could not use the colour outside the selection? Would it just become dead on the edges of a selection? Maybe just just using layers to separate the selection would be the solution to this.
This brush looks and acts very similar to Kyles Real Oil Sargent2 Smudge Tool used in the bird picture. You can follow these same steps to create a Smudge Tool using any regular brushes and Mixers. It is a lot of fun to find some new tip shapes for these.
Check out the video to learn how to create these brushes for free:
Update 15.02.2021
I add the Clip studio Paint version! (they don't work exactly the same but I was trying to match the quality as closely as possible)
I've learned to love Procreate, and for the most part I use brushes straight out of the box. But there are a few that I've created or modified that I find useful, especially a couple of blenders that match the behavior of my Photoshop brushes. Here they are: (The titles are links)
I know this kind of trips up some folks, we talked a little bit at the very beginning about what a mixer brush does and a smudge brush and it's not uber important, it's just, a smudge brush just takes what's there and moves it around, okay? And a mixer brush will put something down and take what's there and move it around. Hopefully we'll make it a little clearer. There are some data points on the tool bar that you're gonna wanna pay attention to. I think for today, it doesn't really matter overly, but you can refer to this later. There is one section down here at the bottom that makes zero sense to me no matter how many time I've read it. There's a function here on the mixer brush, do you see these icons, mixer brush? And it's dry versus light versus moist. I could not even begin to tell you. There's some definitions that don't mean anything for my artistic brain. Play with them as you will and all the stuff I read on the internet, other than from Adobe, said the exact same thing. The...
Knowledgeable Lisa is the best teacher. She makes learning Photoshop fun. Great course. Lisa has a great teaching style. She mixes in a great speech cadence, great voice up and down and pausing, jokes, and is extremely knowledgeable and fun to watch. Awesome course. Really helpful course for getting my feet wet with brushes.
This is a comprehensive overview of Ps CC Brushes, what they do, how they work and how to control, manage & modify them. I found it extremely useful to learn about the functionality/features that Ps CC brushes can provide even though I'm a photographer and not an illustrator or painter. I will never ever be able to employ everything Lisa explained & demo'd in the class - she covered a wide gamut of info. But she served the purpose, in this class, of being essentially what I'd call an 'idea sparker'. Once you see how she works with brushes and you find out how you can adapt (or create) brush tools to suit your personal artistic style the options for creativity are unlimited. I might re-title this class "Oh the Places Brushes Can Go" (apologies to Dr Seuss and his classic graduation gift book 'Oh, the Places You'll Go...').Keep in mind a few things about this class (& back away from it and your credit card if you don't note a few key facts...): (1) It is called 'Advanced Techniques' - it is for intermediate to advanced Ps users, not newbies unless you're a child prodigy who picks things up really fast, (2) This is not a 'Paint with Lisa' class - we don't all paint a butterfly like a color by numbers together. Rather we learn about Ps brushes, how they work, what they look like and how to modify them and change their dynamics for different types of artistic/retouching/post-processing uses. Each person will have to experiment - there's no one 'this is it' formula that can be provided, (3) Lisa talks and thinks fast and has a pretty amusing patter too (she's clearly very intelligent!) - so be prepared to hit the Pause button. She repeatedly advises during the class, don't overload your brain with all there is to absorb with regard to Ps Brushes. Take breaks to try the info she shares & see what works for you before going on to a different section of the class. Don't buy this class thinking you'll whizz through it in 15 minutes & figure out how to complete a job you've committed to deliver in 2 hours, (4) There's a large packet of material that comes with a purchase of the class (descriptions, definitions, brush settings, drawing examples, etc.).Item #4 is the only thing I'd ding this class on. While the handout material contains lots of really really useful info it is - sadly - microscopic print. The text is exceedingly difficult for my poor old eyes to read. I value that there's plenty of white space on the pages to write notes as Lisa talks - I've done so prodigiously. But the print in that accompanying brushes class guide needs to be larger. I honestly wish I could enlarge the print in some way (unless it is a PDF that I can alter & I haven't figured it out). If there is a way to re-print with larger type font sizes someone please let me know!Bottom line: I highly recommend this class to more advanced Ps users who want a comprehensive overview of Brushes and working with them. It's definitely not a class for someone who wants a linear, step x step, "do this then do that" type of recipe class. As I've noted above, it's best as a way to learn about richly varied Ps tools you may have only had superficial exposure to previously; and get enough new knowledge to make you dangerous (and, dare I say it, boldly creative!).
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The brush tool allows you to paint onto your image in a way that makes your final photo truly a work of art. Hollywood high-end retoucher Lisa Carney goes in depth on how to control and take advantage of the opportunities that brush tools give you. With the 2017 updates to Adobe Photoshop CC, using brushes has become even easier.
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