Let's create our new brush using one of Photoshop's built-in brushes. The 200 x 200 pixel size I'm using here usually works well. The general idea, then, is to create your new brush just large enough to suit your needs, which may involve a little trial and error. Brushes will usually remain crisp and sharp when we make them smaller, but if you increase their size much beyond the default, they'll become soft and dull looking. The size at which you initially create the brush will become its default size, and it's important to note that brushes we create ourselves are pixel-based brushes, which means they're essentially images and behave exactly the same way as regular images when it comes to resizing them.

For typical work, you'll want to create brushes much smaller. Also, painting with very large brushes requires a lot more memory and horse power from your computer which can slow your system down considerably. At that size, you'd be painting with the virtual equivalent of a floor mop.

Photoshop allows us to create brushes as large as 2500 x 2500 pixels, but as they say, just because you can doesn't mean you should. A new 200 x 200 pixel document, filled with white, will appear on your screen. Create a new 200 x 200 pixel document with a white background.Ĭlick OK when you're done to accept the settings and exit out of the dialog box.

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