How to Get Vector or Brushes on Photoshop With Butterflies
- 1). Click the "File" menu's "Open" command, then navigate to and double click an image of a butterfly on your hard drive. Photoshop will load the image. If you have no such image, you can get a copyright-free one from MorgeFile, Copyright Free Images, or Public Domain Pictures.
- 2). Click the eyedropper icon from the "Tools" panel to run the "Eyedropper" tool, which lets you sample colors from loaded images. Click a shape on the butterfly to sample its color.
- 3). Click the "Tools" panel icon shaped like a nib pen to run the "Pen" tool, which lets you create vector shapes. Click the "Shape layers" control above the canvas. This lets you produce shapes that fill automatically with the sampled color, as you create the vector.
- 4). Click a point on the outline of the shape whose color you sampled in step 2, and then drag to another point on the outline. Click again, and then drag and click to trace the complete outline of the underlying butterfly shape.
- 5). Use the instructions from steps 2 through 4 to create vector shapes for the remaining parts of the underlying butterfly image. This will result in a vector version of the butterfly.
- 6). Click the "Tools" panel icon shaped like a lasso to run the "Lasso selection" tool for selecting arbitrary shapes, and then click and drag around the outlines of the vector shapes you completed in step 5. This action selects the vector butterfly.
- 7). Click the "Edit" menu's "Define brush" item, and then type a name for the brush in the dialog box that appears, such as "Butterfly brush." Click "OK" to close the dialog.
- 8). Click the paintbrush icon from the "Tools" panel to enter painting mode, and then click the second leftmost drop-down control above the canvas to display a gallery of brushes. Click the lowest, rightmost icon in the gallery to select your brush for painting, and then drag on the canvas to paint with the butterfly brush.