We’re not taking the responsibility of proclaiming the best drawing software out of them all, it’s a matter of taste plus experience. Instead, our team would like to collect handy tutorials, digital painting resources, and inspirational articles in one place, and let them guide you on your creative journey. Here’s the kit dedicated to installing different kinds of digital painting brushes, fitting needs of the beginners and adepts in creating illustrations.
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What is Digital Painting?
Digital painting is creating artwork on your computer or tablet, using the special software, providing with different digital painting brushes. This process not only replicates the traditional drawing on paper but makes it dramatically better in terms of materials and performance. One pack of graphic design brushes can fit hundreds of drawing materials, just imagine what would it be like to carry their physical equivalents in your bag. And what about the function to undo actions when you feel like you’ve messed something up? It’s fantastic!
How to Install Brushes in Photoshop?
Starting with the easiest installation guide! Download your Photoshop brush, unzip it, drag and drop the files to the opened Photoshop window. It’ll initiate the appearance of a Brush panel. Click the brush settings icon, pick Import Brushes and then Open. There you go, you’re all set to work with your Photoshop brushes!
How to Add Brushes to Illustrator?
Download and unpack Illustrator brushes, then go to Window > Brush Libraries > Other Library to find the tools you have unzipped & import them. Now all the necessary tools are at hand in your Brush Library Panel. Don’t forget to enable List View and Persistence to sort your Illustrator brushes by name and make them appear every time you launch Illustrator.
How to Install Procreate Brushes?
This time you can’t do without the Cloud app to install these digital painting brushes. After getting Procreate brushes you’ll need them saved in iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive or any other app you use, then imported to Procreate. You can choose where it’s more convenient for you to do these operations (iPad or computer). Find the required files via Files > On My iPad, tap the chosen Procreate brushes and the Import will start automatically.
How to Add Brushes to Affinity Designer?
First and foremost, go to Brush Panel to choose the way you’d like to use for adding Affinity brushes. It’s either Import Brushes from the dropdown menu or using Finer/Explorer to drag & drop the files to the app. The procedure continues by tapping Brushes Studio > Panel Preferences > Import Brushes. Then go ahead and choose all Affinity Brushes you need!
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