Saving single Photoshop Brushes |
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Open the image that you
want to create the Photoshop brush from, then press
ctrl + A on the keyboard, or go to the select menu
(at the top) and click on 'all'. You should now
have a selection running round the outside of the
image.
If you just want to select part of the image as
a brush, you can use the marquee tool 
simply click and drag until you have selected the
section of the image you require. note
the feather on the marquee tool needs to be set
at '0' or it won't work. |
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Now the image is selected
go into the brushes menu (see figure 1 on the left),
and select 'define brush' from the sub menu.
This will add the new photoshop brush to the brushes
menu. Photoshop creates a small thumbnail for each
new brush. On large brushes it creates the thumbnail
from the top left corner of the image, if there's
nothing in the top left corner then the thumbnail
can appear blank. I have not yet found a solution
to this problem. |
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Here's the new photoshop
brush in the brushes menu.
To save a single brush you need to delete all the
other brushes in the menu, to do this right click
on each brush one by one and in the new menu select
'delete brush'. in Photoshop 5.5 you can click on
a brush while holding down the Ctrl key (scissors
icon appears) this is a very quick way of deleting
brushes. |
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You should be left with
just one Photoshop brush, in the sub menu go to
'save brushes' and then name the brush accordingly.
Saving single brushes is handy for creating new
brush sets, e.g. if you download a set and you only
like one brush from it, then you can save that single
brush and add it to a new brush set. See saving
brush sets for more details. |
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