Photoshop CS5 offers an excellent digital painting enhancement: bristle brushes.
Bristle brushes offer two main benefits:
– Provide a realistic simulation of the behaviors of real physical brushes.
– Their behavior can be seen as we paint with them.
Bristle brushes are easily identifiable in the “Brush” and “Brush Presets” panel as their icons are highly detailed.
There are two main types (or shapes) of bristle brushes, and five subtypes of each, although you can customize them and create your own brushes.
Once the “Brush” tool (B) is selected and one of the bristle brushes chosen, we open the “Brush” panel and take a look at the parameters. Among them: the shape, the number of bristles (slider), length, thickness, hardness, angle and spacing.
Once we find a series of settings that we like, we can save the brush as a preset; Using the «Brush» panel, we click on the small arrow at the top right to open the context menu of the panel, and we choose «New brush value», we name our brush and we click «Ok».
Preview:
Photoshop CS5 provides a way to display these brushes called “Toggle Bristle Brushes Preview” (this icon is at the bottom of the “Brush” panel), and requires an OpenGL-compatible graphics card. By moving the pen on the tablet in different ways, it provides us with the real-time preview for the brush tilt angle, rotation, and the amount of pressure applied to the brush tip. By default, the preview shows a grayscale bristle brush, but if we hold down the Shift key and click the template, the preview will appear in 3D and in color.
Bottega Verde Retractable brush for the face
Suitable for blending blush, optimal for the application of bronzing powders, powders with a luminous effect, powders and compact and powder make-up primers, it has soft and compact bristles that allow it to capture the correct amount of product and apply it easily and p …
Bifull Professional Bifull Brush Body And Facial Mask
Bifull Body And Facial Mask Brush Brush Wood handle Natural bristles Bifull Body And Facial Mask Brush Brush for facial or body beauty treatment, wood handle and natural bristles.
NABLA Cheek Shaper Brush
A pointed contour brush. Perfect your contour with the NABLA Deluxe Cheek Shaper Brush. Ideal for defining and contouring the face; the slightly tapered flexible tip picks up and releases the right amount of powder for a precise, well-blended application. Sows
Bottega Verde Kabuki face brush
Characterized by soft, compact and round-cut bristles, it allows an extremely comfortable application of bronzing powders and powders on the face and provides exceptional diffusion and an optimal and easy extension. Tips for use: grasp the product with the tip of the pin …
Bottega Verde Double brush for earth and blush
Practical double brush: on one side it has rounded bristles to apply the earth and on the other side the bristles are oblique to blur the blush. Made of especially soft synthetic bristles; it is ideal for picking up just the right amount of product and making it easy to spread …
Bottega Verde Flat foundation brush
A professional brush specifically shaped to precisely spread fluid foundation. It has high quality bristles that glide over the skin making each application really simple and homogeneous. C Tips for use: pick up a small amount of …