how to make a pattern brush in photoshop

When you’re all done, choose flatten image. Holding down the shift key while resizing will keep your watermark proportionate. This gives you handles around your watermark, allowing you to resize it. When you have the move tool selected, make sure you have show transform controls checked in the menu options bar. Now that you have your brush selected and a new blank layer, you can make the brush any color you want by using the color picker, you can adjust the layer opacity, as well as the brush opacity and you can move the watermark around using the move tool. You can also go the menu option bar across the top of the screen and choose your brush from there. Open a photo, create a new blank layer by clicking on the new layer icon in the layers panel or by pressing shift + ctrl + n on a PC and shift + cmd + n on a Mac.Ĭlick on the brush icon from the toolbar or simply press B on your keyboard for your brush tool and right click to get your brush palette to open up.

Now you’re ready to use your watermark brush. You can do this by going to select > deselect or by pressing ctrl + d on PC or cmd + d on a Mac. Name it, in this case I name it CM Rocks and press ok. Next, you want to go to edit > define brush presetĪnd you’ll get a dialog box that prompts you to give your brush a name Once you’ve done this, you will have marching ants around your selection (which is the entire document). You can do this by going to select > all or by pressing ctrl + a on PC or cmd + a on a Mac. Once you’ve entered your text, you want to select all. When you do this, you will see a new text layer in the layers palette. Click on the text tool to add your text to the document. Enter 1 for the height and 3 for the width and 300 for the resolution. The first step is to create a new blank document. Continuing on with what I said last week, that time is money and the main goal is to speed up your workflow, I wanted to do a quick tutorial on how to create a watermark in Photoshop and then turn it into a brush.

How to make a pattern brush in photoshop