Professional tips, tricks, and important points

Here are some pro tips for you:

• When editing and masking, rarely if ever will I use a hard round brush. Most of my editing work is done with soft round brushes with various levels of softness – it depends on how aggressively I want the edge to fade away.
• If you want to see how an artist created their brushes for any of the brushes that you have bought or come natively loaded into the program, click on one of them – all the settings will be there for you to try and replicate. This will help you learn how the professionals build their tools.
• I keep my Flow low (usually at 30% or so) and my Opacity high so that I have more control over strokes. This also allows me to build up more gradual effects.
• Always duplicate brushes you want to change permanently and place them in a new category. This helps you avoid making irreversible changes to the brush and forcing you to reinstall it.

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