Photoshop CS5 406: Custom Brush Controls & Grunge Brush Creation

31 videos | 101 minutes | by Mark Stope

Watch as Mark Stope walks you through Photoshop's many Custom Brush controls & learn how to create various types of 'Grunge' brushes to make stunning textures for your next drawing or rendering.

Push your drawing and design tools beyond the stock pack of brushes and to the next level by learning how customize them to do your bidding! Our Resident Film and Television concept artist Mark Stope is back at it again with his next tutorial series "Custom Brush Controls & Grunge Brush Creation".

Photoshop provides many options to change the appearance of it's stock brushes, but also allows for the creation of Custom brushes. Custom brushes are probably one of the coolest yet most under utilized tools in PS, so in this tutorial series we'll not only explore how these custom brush controls work, but also show you how to create killer texture-building brushes commonly known as Grunge brushes. Next, we'll spend some time working with our grunge brushes and explore techniques to build awesome textures.

Included with this tutorial is a PSD file so you can work along with the tutorials. And if you want to skip ahead and get right to building some textures, the brush set that we create is also included! So lets get started...