To move them to the beginning of our list, we have to open the Preset Manager, highlight our new brushes (hold down Shift or use cmd to highlight more than one at the same time) and drag the set to the front of the list. Standard brush sizes shown in the Preset ManagerĪll of the new brushes we save appear at the end of the custom brush list. Clicking on the folded paper icon in the lower right corner, lets us give our new brush a name and save it. We also have to make sure the brush Roundness and Hardness are set to 100%, and Spacing, which determines the distance in between the dots that build up our lines, is as little as possible (the smallest here is 1%). We also have to make sure that Smoothing is the only box checked, because - as we’ve already learned - all the other options cause a variety in line quality, a certain randomness in size, texture, and angle, and we don’t want that. To do this we have to open the Brush Panel and set up each and every brush thickness we’ll use, name them, and save them to the brush palette. If the artist needs to set up a less (or more) pixel-dense environment, he/she has to change the digital line weights accordingly. Because Photoshop uses pixel-based brush lines (unlike Illustrator’s vector-based lines), these thicknesses represent the actual line weights only in the 1200 dpi environment. They were matched and created to represent the same line weights as the ones being used in previous Oriental Institute Epigraphic Survey publications. These brush line thicknesses are the digital equivalents of the line weights discussed in Chapter 2, Section 1. First, we have to open the Brush tool and set up the Epigraphic Survey’s standard brush stroke sizes: Once our layers are set up, our drawing is ready for inking. MHB 91 (detail) - Digital inking of heraldic vulture in progress
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