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Week Three - Presets and Custom Brushes and Settings

Third Week Homework:

  • Assignment One.....Create some Presets for Tools or Effects and describe what Effect you saved and the settings. Show an example of the outcome of your Preset.
  • Assignment Two.....Create some Patterns and show one or more results.
    Optional... Zip Patterns and offer for download if you would like.
  • Assignment Three.....Use your creativity to create Custom Brushes. They can be made from anything; Picture Tubes, scanned photos, Fonts, Dingbats to name a few. See what original Brush Tips you can come up with. Show the results and tell what you made them from.
  • Assignment Four.....Create some Gradients and show one or more results.
    Optional... Zip Gradients and offer for download if you would like.
  • Extra Credit... Create one or more graphic(s) that use several of the results from this week's and previous lessons. Describe how the graphic was done.

Assignment One

  
This is my pastel setting for Artistic Effects/Contours, which seems to work great on photos.
See settings HERE.
  
Textures/Tiles settings, Beads (which don't look like beads) and Bead Gradient (which look like beads). Change the size on the bead gradient effect and you get a more detailed or less detailed beaded look picture.
Download presets HERE.

Assignment Two

  
The bead preset on a sold color from above. Using a flowered image and topographical effects, softening it a bit, made the second image. Both are tilable, just put them in your PSP8 patterns folder to use them as patterns.

Assignment Three

  
My Clown brush (made from a vector clown shape I had from another class) with and without variance.
Download both HERE.

Assignment Four


My gradients. The red and white one I made originally in PSP7, but it works in PSP8 and makes great red and white stripes if you increase the repeats on the settings.
Download all three HERE.

Extra Credit


Mouse Painter tube is painting Duck tube. His painting was the topographical pattern above, added the resized duck tube, then applied the contour effect. Background is one of my gradients, with a rectangle "beaded".
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