Spooky Halloween Brushes for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements
One of the fun things to use when Digital Scrapbooking within Photoshop or Photoshop Elements are Custom Brushes! Custom Brushes are basically a digital version of a rubber stamp, and can be “stamped” on Digital Scrapbook Projects as adorable embellishments!
How to use a digital brush as a stamp is easy, after loading a custom brush and picking out its color (like choosing the ink to go on the bottom of a stamp a physical rubber stamp), you can apply the brush and “stamp” it onto your digital scrapbooking page.
In the example, we are using Photoshop Elements (works like this in Photoshop too) and we have selected the brush which is a witch hat. Next, we selected black as the color and with our mouse positioned it on our purple digital scrapbook paper and clicked once to "stamp" on the image.
Once you start stamping with custom brushes it is hard to stop!
It was fun to stamp a Spooky Witch Hat from the Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Witch Brush Set. Or choose the Witch’s Broom or Boots, a creepy tree… or even a Halloween set of a moon with stars! Before we were done with our digital scrapbooking project we had used several other custom brushes from the set on the right.
Not only can use Brushes to create stamps, but you can also use a Custom Brush for cutting out the shape custom brushes. They can also be used as a cut-out tool!
To do this, you load the Custom Brush, and choose the Eraser tool instead of the Brush tool to “punch” out the shape. This makes an outline of the shape, design, or pattern, and allows the background beneath it to show through!
For example, after selecting the eraser tool, we select the custom brush – bat. Next with our mouse we click on the black digital paper and it cuts the shape of the brush out (bat) and exposes the purple digital paper below. Now the cut out looks like the paper below.
Begin experimenting with Custom Brushes, starting THIS Halloween by using the Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Brush Set. You could use the Bat Brush to “cut-out” a bat from a digital scrapbooking paper showing the digital paper below in a that shape or use it to "Stamp on" a bat! Or you might want to Stamp or Cut a ghost, spider, pumpkins, or a cat! Choose both the Witch Brush Set and the Halloween Brush Set to complete this years’ Halloween Digital Scrapbooking Projects!
Try something new and exciting with these spooky Brushes- just in time for Halloween!
And as always, HAPPY SCRAPPING!
from the Digital Scrapbooks and More ~ Scrap Team
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