Archive for June, 2008
Creating a Custom Photoshop Brush
Im using Photoshop CS3 to make this brush.
1. Open a separate file that is the size that you want your brush to be. It’s often best to make a large file in case you need the same brush to be larger down the road.
Now convert your document to grayscale; White pixels will be transparent, black will be opaque, and everything in between will be a semi transparent gray.
2. Now go to Edit > define Brush Preset and your brush will appear at the end of the brushes pallete. Play around with brush presets to get the look you want.
For more detailed information, here’s a good blog that describes the custom Photoshop brush making process in a little more detail.
Here is a full set of premade custom Photoshop brushes that I really like. If you don’t find what you’re looking for there, here are a few more brushes you might try.
Blogging Tips Part 1
After several days of deliberation and Google searches about blogging, I decided to turn the open tabs in my browser window, into a real life blog post. Here it is, my first (more or less).
This article’s number one tip is to think of a blog as a list of URL’s you want to save or share. (It also mentions Delicious) Basically, it says to have more links than posts in your blog. I like this and will try to stick to it. With that being said, my delicious bookmark page on blogs is here: http://del.icio.us/jcbrady/blogs.
There are plenty of good links to blog articles here as well as a ton of other links you’ll find useful. Delicious is awesome and I highly recommend you sign up for an account if you don’t already have one. It’s free and very much worth your time. It’s my favorite online bookmarking service because I think it’s one of the simplest to use.
You can also check out http://del.icio.us/ for what is popular on the web, meaning what people are actively bookmarking. It’s a great way to browse the web based on what people are bookmarking.
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