Mastering Photoshop brushes: 6 top tips

Photoshop is a complex bit of kit, which can take years to learn properly. Thankfully, there's lots of Photoshop resources around to help you out, including handy Photoshop tutorials and Photoshop actions to create impressive effects. But one of the essentials Photoshop features to know as a digital artist are the Photoshop brushes.

Just as with traditional painting, knowing what effects you can create and what tools to use to do so is a great advantage to have. By mastering your brushes, you can get the very most out of the software and once you understand the basics, you can go ahead and create your very own.

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