Discover how to create stunning photo manipulations in Photoshop. In this course, you'll learn everything from photographing models to creating dark conceptual artworks. If you enjoy our photo manipulation tutorials, you will absolutely love this course.

Step 15
Try various photos and converting them to brushes using the same steps here. Brushes with added Shape Dynamics and Scattering can help create a unique background, such as this one created with a photo of Polaroids.

Step 16
This one was created with a scan of tape. Besides creating unique paths, backgrounds are often created with such brushes.
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7 comments on “Create Custom Photo Brushes”
hey,thanks for this but is it possible to use a image with its original color instead of selecting a single color in foreground ?
excellent
gr8.thanks...
Nice and easy yet elegant. Thanks for the info.
Beautiful and easy. There seems to be some layout issues on this post
Thank you! It's fixed now :)