You should now have the custom brush softened.įinally Define a new Brush Preset and you have a softened 'Custom Brush' This can actually be useful with hair and fur brushes. You also need to turn off the original 100% hardness stroke on the layer below. With this method you can visually see the feathering happening, whereas with the 'feather' command it's trial and error.Įxit Quick Mask mode and create a new blank layer-the feathered selection will still be active. Note for this to work you must paint on to a transparent layer.Ĭontrol or command click the layer thumbnail to select the stroke and go into 'Quick mask' mode-Q on the keyboard.Īpply a Gaussian Blur. Custom Photoshop Brushes Set 1 Rated 4.82 out of 5 based on 11 customer ratings ( 11 customer reviews) 5.00 1.00 Add to Cart Gift this Product My original & most popular brush set This brush set includes my famous Pastel C brush that I still use for 95 of my line work as well as a bunch of my coloring. There is no point doing this with round brushes as they all dynamically soften, but as an example this is how you can soften.īelow is stroke made with brush 30 which has 100% hardness-for now just imagine this is a custom brush. You can make Photoshop soften custom brushes, but it's tedious and you really need a good reason to do it.

I think the problem is the Adobe built in brushes can be dynamically feathered which causes softness, whereas 'custom brushes' are based on a fixed brush preset that can only be resized and transformed. I noticed this as well a few weeks ago and found absolutely nothing online to help.

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