Changing the brush for a drawn line

tryc  wrote

If you have drawn a Path and saved it, another option is that you can erase the old pixels, reselect the path, and put a new stroke on the path with the current brush settings.

If you were using Illustrator you could select the path and change the brush. Photoshop puts pixels on the canvas so it’s not quite as easy.

Jane

Starting with a straight stroke

Ctrl click to load the brush stroke as a selection, and add a layer mask.

You can then eat into the brush stroke by editing the layer mask.

The Filter Gallery is a good place to start.  Make sure the mask is selected with the white  box around it.

This is splatter

Sprayed Strokes

Or you could combine filters by clicking on the New icon at the bottom of the panel, and add another filter or two.

This is Splatter and Ocean Ripple.

Another approach is to add the layer mask, and Ctrl click it to reload the selection, and make that selection into a workpath.

Set up a brush with some angle jitter and perhaps a bit of scatter.  You need to get the size and everything right before using it, so test on a spare layer

Then select the layer mask again, and stroke the path with your brush

Right click the path and choose Stroke and brush.  Make sure Simulate pressure is turned off

If that did too much damage, undo and reduce brush size, then do it again

Other things you can do.

Add a layer, and fill it with texture.   What  I have done here is fill with 50% grey, and add  noise.  Clip it to the Blue brush stroke layer, and set it's blend mode to Multiply.

At the end of the day, it's Photoshop, so there is almost no limit to what you can do.

I just went into brush and brush preset pallets and moved sliders around. Really easy. Try play with it. I just used a photoshop preset brush and you can see on screen shot the sliders i played with.

Possibly a layer filled with texture, and an appropriate blending mode, or maybe an Adjustment Layer with a texture in the layer mask.

Hi there you can get many hand drawn free brush files and save them in Photoshop directory no big deal at all....Thanks