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Grain Shader Brush Set Document Reference:
For Photoshop User Guide CC2018+
USER GUIDE ( CC 2018+ )
TO HELP YOU GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR BRUSHES CHECK OUT
THE USER GUIDE BELOW FOR HELPFUL INFO ON NAVIGATING,
ORGANIZING AND TROUBLESHOOTING YOUR BRUSHES.
GETTING TO KNOW YOUR BRUSHES
BRUSH GROUPS
Your Grain Shader brush set contains two different brush styles
organized into separate folders for easy navigation.
1 Grain Shader Brushes with fixed width and variable width
strokes (Graphics tablet, Wacom or similar, required).
2 Pressure Shader Brushes which darken with increased
pen pressure to create gradated shading effects.
(Graphics tablet, Wacom or similar, required).
SET YOUR BRUSHES a
PANEL TO DISPLAY THE
BRUSH NAME, STROKE
AND TIP.
This makes it super-easy to select
b
brushes by name (see below) or
stroke preview and size at a glance.
In your Brushes Panel (Window >
Brushes) click the fly-out menu
on the top right side of the
panel (a) and choose Brush Name
and Brush Stroke (b).
You can also adjust the size of
your brush preview using the
scale slider at the bottom of
the Brushes Panel (c). c
HOW ARE THE BRUSHES NAMED & ORGANIZED?
GRAIN SHADER BRUSH NAMES
Grain Shader brushes have a few naming conventions that
will help you select the right brush for the job.
• Brush Number:
1A, 1B, 2A, 2B etc.
• Stroke Style:
Fixed or variable.
PRESSURE SHADER NAMES
Pressure Shaders are simply numbered 1 through 7 .
• Brush Number:
1 through 7.
GRAIN SHADER BRUSH SET FOR PHOTOSHOP
B R U S H C H E AT S H E E T
CHEAT SHEETS INCLUDED
Your download package includes a Pressure Shader 1 Pressure Shader 2
printable cheat-sheet with a full
Shader 1 Shader 2 Shader 3 Shader 4 Shader 5 Shader 6
detailed brush tip previews and
contextual stroke examples for
each and every Grain Shader brush.
Shader 7 Shader 8 Shader 9 Shader 10 Shader 11 Shader 12
Shader 13 Grain Builder 1 Grain Builder 2 Grain Builder 3 Grain Builder 4 Grain Builder 5
ADDITIONAL PRESSURE SHADER INFO
Example.psd (16 bit - RGB)
IDEAL IMAGE RESOLUTION
FOR SHADER BRUSHES
Minimum 1000px
Your Pressure Shaders are optimized for use on on longest side
canvasses between 1000px and 4000px wide on the
longest side but they work well up to around
8000px on the longest side.
Brush strokes on canvases below 1000px will be
noticeably pixelated due to the brushes
embedded dissolve mode.
CHANGING THE SCALE OF YOUR
PRESSURE SHADER TEXTURES
The embedded pattern in your Pressure Shaders come
2
pre-scaled to around 30% but you can easily change
this to suit your artwork as needed. 1
1 Open the Brush Settings Panel (Window > Brush Settings).
2 Go to the Texture tab and use the Scale slider to
increase or decrease the texture size.
3 The texture scale will reset to the default whenever you
select another brush. You may wish to save the newly
scaled brush by clicking the ‘Create New Brush’ button
at the bottom of the Brush Settings Panel.
NOTE Texture scales over 100% may affect the usability of
the brush or reduce the quality of the shading effect.
3
USING THE RESET BRUSH
TO TROUBLESHOOT GLITCHY BRUSHES
If you’re switching back and forth between your Pressure
Shaders and any other regular brush (eg default Photoshop
brushes or other custom brushes) you may experience brush a
glitches caused by the Pressure Shaders’ dissolve blend, opacity
and flow settings getting carried over to next brush you choose.
To reset a glitchy brush:
1 Select the *** Reset Brush *** (a) in the Shader Brushes
folder. You don’t need to use the Reset Brush on your
canvas, simply selecting it will do the trick.
2 Next, re-select the affected brush. This will reset your
brush mode, opacity and flow settings back to the
Photoshop defaults and the glitchy brush should be
back to normal.
You can also reset a brush to the Photoshop defaults by
entering the settings in the toolbar at the top of your
screen as shown below.
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