Simulating a paintbrush

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Majicman17
Apr 27, 2004
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Anyone have any ideas on how to simulate a paint brush stroke? My best description would be to imagine a paint brush with a lot of pain smeared down a wood door. There would be a lot of paint on the top, where the brush began, and it would eventually fade/dissolve/blot out toward the end of the stroke. I wish I could find an example online, something similar to the stroke behind the "V" in Village at this site: http://thevillage.movies.com.

Any ideas would be great, I am working on Photoshop CS.


Seth Meranda
smeranda<at>unlnotes<dot>unl<dot>edu

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Daryl_Pritchard
Apr 27, 2004
Seth,

I’m not experienced enough with painting techniques in PSCS to know just how realistic a result can be obtained, but if you use a tablet with pressure sensitivity (such as a Wacom), then the brush dynamics in PSCS will yield strokes similar to what you describe. Have you explored the Brushes palette options?

Even without a pressure-sensitive input device such as a mouse, you can still activate Shape Dynamics and apply a size jitter that results in a progressively smaller brush. With other options combined in, you may still be able to obtain a sufficient effect to what you describe.

Hope that helps,

Daryl

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