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Half Sepia 2 Photoshop Tutorial
Step 1
Open a photo inside Photoshop. The half sepia photo effect works on most photos but is most useful for images with high saturation.
Step 2
In the Layers palette, click on the



Step 3
We will now work on the layer mask of the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. Make sure that you have the layer mask selected by clicking on the layer mask thumbnail in the Layers palette.

Step 4
Now we'll add a black and white adjustment layer. In the layers palette, click on the




Half Sepia 2 Final Results


Preview of Final Results

Step 1
Open Photoshop and open a photo to use as a brush. It should be something that would work in a pattern, where the content of the photo is obvious as various sizes. I'm using this "blue angel wing" I found on iStockPhoto. IT should be relatively large, perhaps 1000 pixels for both width and height. If you create a brush at a small size, setting the brush to a larger size than originally created will cause it to lose resolution. But making it smaller is no problem, just like resizing a photo.
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Step 2
To first define a brush, we need to select the area. Click the Rectangular Marquee tool on the toolbar.
Step 3
Click-and-drag a selection around the photo. We don't need to remove the white pixels first because they will be transparent in a brush.
Step 4
Go to Edit>Define Brush Preset.
Step 5
Name the brush something that matches the image, and click OK.
Step 6
Now that we have the brush defined, go to File>New and create a new file at 1024 x 768. Click OK.
Step 7
Click the Brush tool on the toolbar.
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 :)