100% hardness gives you a hard edge, and 0% hardness gives you a soft, feathered edge. Under that you'll see Hardness, which lets you adjust how hard or soft your brush will be. The Angle and Roundness values to the left allow to you change these settings numerically as well. You can click and drag the arrow to change the orientation of your brush, or you can click and drag the two dots to make your brush rounder or flatter. The icon on the right lets you set the rotation and roundness of the brush. In this case, our brush is a simple ellipse at a 45 degree angle, so flipping it on either axis will give us the same results.

If you check Flip X, your brush will be mirrored on the X Axis, and if you check Flip Y, it will flip over the Y Axis. The square bracket keys are located right next to the letter P on your keyboard. You can always scale the size of your brush using this slider, or you can simply press the shortcut keys, which are left square bracket to shrink your brush, and right square bracket to increase its size. The first thing you'll see in the Brush Tip Shape settings is Size. In older versions of Photoshop, it was near the beginning of the brush set, in newer versions, it's found further down the list. In this example, I'll be starting with one of Photoshop's default, hard elliptical brushes. We won't be covering the art brushes in this tutorial. The other icons are art brushes, and are meant for use with a graphics tablet. The main ones that get used are the soft round brush and the hard round brush.

Photoshop comes with a variety of brush tips which you can see in this list. You can find them in the Brush panel by clicking Window > Brush (F5), then clicking Brush Tip Shape. The Brush Tip Shape settings are the ones you typically look at first when you're creating or editing a Photoshop brush. Where to Find the Brush Tip Shape Settings Make sure you also check out the previous article in this series, Photoshop Brushes Advanced Features: Introduction. In the Brush Tip Shape panel, you can change more than just the shape of your brush tip, including size, hardness, roundness, and spacing.

These settings are the foundation of creating or editing Photoshop brushes. In this article, I'm going to explain the Brush Tip Shape settings. This series is going to teach you in-depth how the advanced brush settings work in Photoshop.

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