automigration

Someone asked what brushes I like to use in Photoshop, I forget myself (I save them as presets under strange names like ‘Bunny Ears’) so here is a list for you and me:

• Hard Elliptical 28 (under Dry Media) the ‘ink wash’ brush - you may want to fiddle with all the settings, what I like may not quite be what you like!
• Hard Elliptical 20 (under Calligraphic) a bit like a nib pen
• Chinese Ink (from a brush set created by zhuzhu) self explanatory

Also might save a little time (and your drawing hand) if you use Actions to automate brush selections (there is a simple tutorial here). It helps if you select a non-brush tool (eg. marquee tool (M)) before recording, follow the tutorial, then at step #4 just hit ‘B’ to switch to the brush tool and select your saved brush (eg. ‘Bunny Ears’) from the preset menu. Now you can use shift+F2, F3 etc to switch between brushes very quickly. Yes this seems such an obvious solution haha sadly it wasn’t very obvious to me until 2-3 years ago