Photoshop Swirl Brushes ? Add An Artistic Touch To Your Artwork!

Inspiration and creativity is the most important elements required for creating Photoshop brushes. If they are created well, then it can be easily used unlimited number of times in unlimited ways. Any successful graphic designer or photographer work years to create their own style of brush, so that they can add their touch to their imagination. Owing to that thought abstract and decorative photoshop swirl brushes have been created which can add an artistic and creative touch to the photos, images, stationary, cards, wallpapers and other different kind of artworks. Swirls look artistic, beautiful, classy and at the same time very abstractive which binds all arts together.

You can easily make or create your own unique and personal swirls using the photoshop brushes. Whether you want to make complex multi-colored swirls or any simple elegant one, every thing is possible with Photoshop?s powerful set of graphic tools and image filters which will help you to design and make the exact style of swirl you want.

Instructions to create Photoshop Swirl Brush

These below mentioned instructions will guide you on how to make swirls with Photoshop ?

• Step 1 ? Launch Adobe Photoshop and then click on ?File? > ?New?. Enter ?400 pixels? in the width and the height field in the dialog box thus appears. Click the ?Background Contents?, select ?Transparent? and click ?OK?.
• Step 2 ? Select ?Black? in the color window, select ?Paint Bucket? and click anywhere in the Photoshop document.
• Step 3 ? Now go to the ?Filter? in the top navigation, then go to ?Render? > ?Lens Flare? and leave all default settings and then click ?OK?.
• Step 4 ? Now from the toolbar select ?Smudge Tool?, go to the tool setting located at the top under the main menu and select ?27? pixels in the brush settings, ?Normal? in the mode setting and ?50%? in the strength settings.
• Step 5 - Start at the center of the ?Lens Flare?. Smudge from the center and of the lens to the outer tip and create five different smudges so that smudge roughly creates the shape of a starfish.
• Step 6 ? Now go to the ?Filter? again, select ?Distort? > ?Wave?. In the wave dialog box, click ?Randomize until the preview shows a abstract swirl that you like and then click ?OK?.
• Step 7 ? After that from the top-menu select ?Duplicate Layer? > ?OK? > ?Filter? > ?Distort? > ?Wave?. Click ?Randomize again till you see a swirl that you like.
• Step 8 ? As a final step from the main menu select ?Layer? > ?Flatten Image?. Now from the main menu again select ?Adjustments? and then ?Invert?.

After following these steps you can easily create a simple photoshop swirl brush which you can use in your different artworks. But that?s not it because by following your imagination you can create even more colorful and beautiful swirls, after all ?sky is the limit?.