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Photoshop : Tutorial – Changing the direction of brush strokes

Posted: July 12th, 2007 | Author: Jennifer

If you’re working with brushes with irregular shapes in Photoshop, you may find that you want to rotate the Brush so that you can get the same brush stroke horizontally as vertically. But how do you do it? Well the good news is that you CAN do this AND it’s easy too.

1. Select the brush tool brush direction clip image002 Photoshop : Tutorial Changing the direction of brush strokes from the tool box .

2. Choose a brush preset on the tool options bar.

brush direction clip image004 Photoshop : Tutorial Changing the direction of brush strokes


(I’ve picked a policeman brush from Magurno).

This is what the brush looks like in its normal state when I drag horizontally and vertically.

brush direction clip image006 Photoshop : Tutorial Changing the direction of brush strokes


However, if I want to change the direction of the brush stroke, I need to make a change in the Brush Tip Shape.

3. Select Window > Brushes to display the Brushes palette, or click on the Brushes palette if it’s docked up in the right hand corner..

4. Click on the words “ Brush Tip Shape” to display the brush shape options.

brush direction clip image008 Photoshop : Tutorial Changing the direction of brush strokes


5. In the Angle box, change the 0 to 90. (if it already says 90, change it to 0 or 180 degrees).

Now when I drag with the paintbrush, the brush stroke is rotated.

brush direction clip image010 Photoshop : Tutorial Changing the direction of brush strokes


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5 Comments on “Photoshop : Tutorial – Changing the direction of brush strokes”

  1. 1 jennyrusks said at 1:56 pm on July 13th, 2007:

    Thanks Jo.

  2. 2 Graybonnie said at 12:21 am on July 14th, 2007:

    Thanks bunches!

  3. 3 Chris said at 9:53 am on December 3rd, 2008:

    thanks much for the tip!! : )

  4. 4 Jennifer Farley said at 1:06 pm on December 3rd, 2008:

    You’re welcome Chris.

  5. 5 Lipi said at 7:42 pm on April 28th, 2009:

    Thank you so much :)

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