Tutorial Beginner Brushes in Photoshop CS

Short Description
This tutorial will guide you through the basics of brushes in Photoshop. It will cover the basics of the brush palette and how to create a simple background made completely of brushes. There are 2 ways you can access your brushes in Photoshop, click on the brush tool on your tool bar then choose one of the following.

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1) On the left portion of your options bar you will see a Brush menu, if you click on the arrow you will see a list of all your brushes. From this menu you can select a brush and change the size and hardness of your brush.
2) The better way to access you brushes is through the Brushes Palette, which is normally located in the upper right corner of your palettes, or press F5 to view it. We are going to concentrate on the brush palette for the purpose of this tutorial.
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This tutorial will give you a basic understanding of the more common brush features in the brush palette. The options in this palette are seemingly endless and the settings below are just to recreate the background I have done. Once you walk through this tutorial and read the tutorial from the link above you should have enough knowledge to begin using brushes in your layouts. We will cover more advanced features in future tutorials!
1) Open a new layout in your size choice and fill the background with whatever color you choose. (The example uses an Inner Shadow layer style from Layer>Layer Style>Inner Shadow to give a little bit of a grungy look.)
2) On the left use a simple square brush filled with a texture to create a grid
a) Choose Square Brushes from the brush list to load into the palette: click on the small Arrow icon to open the Palette Menu.
b) Choose the largest square brush available, Thick Heavy Square 24.
c) Click on brush tip shape function on the left of the palette to change the diameter of the brush to 482 and the spacing to 97%.
d) Now choose Texture function to add a texture to your square. I chose a grid like texture from the artist surfaces list and sized it to 730% and changed the mode to subtract.
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