Photoshop Elements >
Brushes > Anything-you-want Brush
A related tutorial is
Masking a
Layer.
You can create a brush that does anything you want it to do.
You'll create a clipping group to do so.
Do the following.
Be sure to check off as you go along.
1) Open a file and
create a Background copy
layer.
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Background copy
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Background
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2)
Rename the
Background copy layer as Palette.
3) Click
the Background layer to make it active (highlighted).
4)
Create a blank layer.
5) Because the Background
layer was active (highlighted), the blank layer is between the Background
layer and the Palette layer.
If it isn't, click and hold on it, and drag it to the proper
position in the layers stack.
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Palette
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Layer 1
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Background
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6) Rename Layer
1, the blank layer, as Canvas.
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Palette
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Canvas
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Background
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7) Click the Palette
layer to make it active (highlighted).
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Palette
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Canvas
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Background
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8) Change the Palette
layer in some way.
Let's call what you do to the Palette layer the effect.
Do the following to create the effect.
• Press Ctrl + L for Levels
• Press Ctrl + u for Hue/Saturation
• Go to Enhance > Convert to B&W
• Go to Filters > Blur > Gaussian Blur, at the top of your screen.
Or, choose a different filter.
• Or ?
9) Make sure the
Palette layer is active (highlighted).
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Palette
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Canvas
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Background
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10) Go to Layer
> Select Group with Previous Layer (6.0 & 7.0) or Use Previous Layer
to Create Clipping Mask (8.0).
Or, press Ctrl + g.
The Palette layer is now grouped with the Canvas layer.
Look for the tiny black arrow in the Palette layer.
The effect you created in the Palette layer disappears.
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↓ Palette
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Canvas
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Background
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11) Make sure the
Canvas layer is active (highlighted).
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↓ Palette
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Canvas
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Background
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12) You can now
"paint" the effect of the Palette layer on the "canvas," the Canvas
layer.
Where you paint, the effect will reappear.
Use the Brush tool.
You may want to use a feathered brush.
If you haven't already done so, go to
Feathered Brush.
You can make a selection, before painting, to confine the effect
to a certain area.
You may want to feather the selection.
Go to Select > Feather.
Variations
Use Another Photograph as the Effect
Instead of transforming the Palette layer, you can use a different
photograph.
In step 1, above, don't make a Background copy layer.
Instead . . .
1) Open a second photograph.
2) Select the Move tool.
3) Click and hold in the image in the center of your screen,
drag it down to the thumbnail of the first photograph in the project
bin.
4) If the second photograph that you dragged in is the wrong
size, go to Image > Transform > Free Transform.
Click and hold on one of the corners of the photograph, and drag.
If you haven't already done so, go to
Transform.
4) Rename
the Layer 1, the second photograph that you dragged in, as Palette.
5) Continue with Step 3,
above.
Instead of Using the Brush Tool
Type Tool
Enter text with the Type tool on the Canvas layer.
The effect will appear inside the letters.
Make a Black Selection
Make a selection and fill it with black.
For example, you can vignette the photograph.
Go to
Feather/Fade the Edge of a Photograph - Method #2 - Clipping
Group.
The effect will appear inside the selection.
a) Make a selection.
b) You may want to feather the selection.
Go to Select > Feather.
c) Make sure the foreground color is black.
If you haven't already, go to
Foreground & Background Colors.
d) Select the Paint Bucket tool.
e) Click inside the selection.
More
Go to
Layer Groups & Clipping Masks.
