custom brushes – Photoshop Elements User

Create a Signature Brush

By Elizabeth LePage · April 13th, 2011

Quickly create a custom signature (or text) brush that you can use as a watermark over and over again for your photos.

Defining Custom Brushes

By Corey Barker · October 10th, 2010

In this quick video, Corey shows you how to create a custom brush from a photo.

I hope my magazine tutorial, “Create Your Own Digital Stamps,” has encouraged you to start creating your own digital stamps, and that you’re having fun making them. Once you get used to the process, you’ll find that there’s plenty of room for creativity, including adding backgrounds, text, and other embellishments.

Using a Brush in Photoshop Elements Without Installing It

By Diana Day · March 5th, 2010

If you download many new brush sets to use in Elements, you may not wish to install them all in the Presets/Brushes folder as it may cause Elements to run slower.

Create Your Own Digital Stamps

By Diana Day · March 5th, 2010

With a few simple steps, you can turn any photo into a custom brush, which you can use over and over again, just like a rubber stamp.

Making a Chain

By Wendy Williams · April 29th, 2008

Here’s a quick way to make a simple chain brush that you can use in your scrapbook pages.

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Create Grungy Backgrounds With Custom Brushes

By Diana Day · March 3rd, 2008

Do you admire those popular grungy backgrounds and wish you could make your own? Here’s an easy and fun technique that utilizes some of the many free brushes available online. In the process, we’ll also take advantage of two often-overlooked tools: dodge and burn.