Professional tips, tricks, and important points
When creating special effects and brushes, you will never create the perfect brush for every occasion, and they will all require some adjustment on an image-by-image basis. For these tools, I want you to think of them as “baselines.” Even for the tinker bell brush we made and created a style for, you will have to adjust based on the colors of your image.
Most specialty style brushes come down to the base image (the PNG they are pulled from, so spending time on getting a good dynamic selection and thus a dynamic image will be more important than becoming a wizard of dynamic settings). I can do more with a single stamp-style brush than most people can do with fancier brushes.
I avoid the large “1,000-brush” packs for artists; you will find in your career you really only need four or five of each style to achieve 99% of the effects.
I personally do not set the blend modes for my brushes, tending to instead...
