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Photoshop tutorials: Grass tutorial 1: Using the grass brush
July, 2009

Here's the grass tutorial I've been meaning to make for such a long time: a tutorial on the proper use of Photoshop's grass brushes. I've seen them being abused for so long, that I just couldn't take it any longer. For additional tips and information, please also check out these other tutorials:

- Grass-tutorial, another tutorial about how to use Grass Brushes.
- Tutorial - Grass, a tutorial on how to make your own grass brushes.
- PS - Background Brushes, more brushes.
- Brush Techniques Tutorial, about how to fiddle with brush settings. This person also has a lot of lovely brush sets on offer!
- Creating Brushes in Photoshop, title says it all.


I think I'll enable critiques for this. Tell me what you think, not just about the tutorial but also about the technique. :)
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Mood: Love ~Lunaheart1 May 14, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
I used this tutorial to make my first background if you want to see it: [link]

I fell in love with it and made it into a background for my first two comic pages. I would love feedback seeing as this is my first actual background that I truly tried on, but only if you have time. It also took me less than 45 minutes to make it, ironically. I didn't know backgrounds were so easy to make.

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*Blue-Uncia May 20, 2012
Hi, thanks for using this tutorial. Glad to help. :)

Some feedback? Sure. ^^

I'd say maybe add some more blues and even some purples near the horizon, to suggest atmospheric perspective. Also make it a little lighter than the foreground. The moon could also do with a bit more definition, since it's a bit on the blurry side right now.

Other than that, it looks pretty good to me. A very respectable first attempt. Beats mine. :)

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~Lunaheart1 Apr 23, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
This helped me soooo much. If you want to see what I made with the help of your amazing tutorial, here it is: [link]
Again, totally saved my horrible first handed backgrounds.

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*Kierakasha Mar 25, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
What a fantastic tutorial you've done here. You're right in saying that a tutorial on a grass brush seems a little silly at first but once you get in to seeing how bad it can go, you start to see why it's needed. Well done.

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*Blue-Uncia Mar 27, 2012
Heheh, thanks. ^^

It's an old tutorial, and I still think that using different (hand-painted) techniques beats the use of the grass brush, but I'm glad people still think this is useful. :)

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~BrutalPanic Oct 13, 2011
I love the floating grass in the beginning.

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*Blue-Uncia Oct 16, 2011
Me too. :3

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Mood: Joy ~ganchi Apr 26, 2011
nice can u add the link where I can download the grass brushes, thanks

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*Blue-Uncia Apr 26, 2011
These brushes aren't downloadable, because they are the standard grass brushes found on all recent versions of Photoshop.

In other words, if you have a relatively new version of Photoshop, then you already have these brushes. :)

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~ganchi Apr 26, 2011
thanks, I sorta found them, It's pretty hard to make a good decent background with grass ;D. really hard spend alot of time in it..

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