This tutorial will walk you through the creation of a brush in Photoshop. Brushes are possibly the most important tools in Photoshop so knowing how to create brush patterns is a must.

Page 1 covers the bubble graphics

Page 2 covers the Photoshop brush preset settings

You can download the completed brush from here.

Preview

1/4 The document

Create a new Photoshop document. The brush’s maximum usable size will be half the document’s size.

Select Photoshop’s Paint Bucket Tool {} from beneath the Gradient tool { } (“g”) and fill the background color with black.

2/4 The bubble

Create a new layer by pressing the New Layer {} button. Click and hold the Rectangular Marquee tool {} and select Photoshop’s  Eliptical Marquee tool {} from underneath. Create a large circular selection.

Select the Gradient Tool {} , set the gradient to range from white to transparent. Also set it to radial and drag a gradient inside the circular selection. Remember that the point you drag from will be the highlight of the bubble.

Select the Brush Tool {} , set the opacity to 10% and brush some more highlights inside the circular selection.

Select the Eliptical Marquee tool {} again and set the feather value to 20px or so. Do a circular selection on the bottom-right part of the bubble. Press the delete key to create a spherical effect. In Photoshop, the delete key serves a wide variety of purposes, so make sure you are on the working area of the document.

Go to the Filters/ Blur menu and click the Gaussian Blur entry

Set a small blur amount and click ok. For this tutorial, I’ve used a value of 5.

Right click the Bubble layer and click on Merge Down.

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