Final Product What You'll Be Creating Creating still-life
objects in Photoshop is often great practice for learning how to
create other objects. In today’s tutorial we will demonstrate
how to create a realistic-looking paint brush using layer
styles, clipping masks, and the not-so-commonly-used blend if
sliders. Let’s get started! This tutorial uses a custom created
pattern. Download here: Create a new document (2400px x 2175
px). Sketch out a scene of a paintbrush. This step is optional,
but I’ve added some additional visual guides to help me draw the
bristles. Before we start drawing bristles, create a New Group
called “Bristles.” Inside this group, create a layer called
“Bristles” and add the following Layer Style. Duplicate the
empty layer 5 times. Since we are making a lot of bristles, we
are going to be drawing them on five separate layers. If we
tried to draw them all on one layer, the strokes would blend
together and ruin the layer style that’s applied. Select the
bottom-most layer in the “Bristles” g