how to create a custom brush in photoshop

You can take this concept on to the next level and create more advanced custom lightning brushes. Very easy to do and check out the video to see how it is done.

In this tutorial I used the difference clouds filter followed by inversions in order to create the lightning bolt shape.

As long as you have black marks on a white background you can create the brush. You can do this from sampling photographs, freehand drawing or creating shapes. The concept is relatively straight forward in the sense that as long as you have black marks on a white background, you can create a custom brush of any shape whatsoever. I say this from experience as I often avoided creating brushes as I did not fully understand them. Texture is an important part of any digital painting, because it adds that touch of realism to your work. It is an often underused feature but once you get the hang of it then you will wonder how you manged without it. How to Create a Brush From a Texture Step 1. Creating custom brushes in Photoshop is an extremely powerful tool with almost endless limitations.

How to create a custom brush in photoshop