It is “animated on the twos” to give a stop-motion appearance. It is 24 frames per second with each frame of wrinkled paper lasting for two frames.
Tips:
For a less distracting background, add a layer of white at 50% opacity on top of the crumpled paper video layer
To make the paper animation look less like stop-motion double the speed and each paper image will only last for 1 frame.
To make your video appear to be drawn on the paper, put the wrinkled paper video loop on top of your artwork in your video editing app as a Multiply layer and it will affect any layers below it (try other layer type modes for different effcts)
This will show you how to check if your tablet pressure is working in Photoshop. It can be tricky to tell if your stylus or pen is not working or if it is just that brush, especially with fancy brushes that seem to change as you paint with them. This test will account for that.
TLDR: In short, If you can vary the pressure and or transparency of your brush strokes while painting with the default hard round brush and pressing harder or softer on your stylus, then the pressure from your stylus is being successfully sent to Photoshop.
This first test will start you off with a basic brush, enable pressure and then test to make sure Photoshop is getting pressure data from your stylus.
Note: This video has subtitles available in about a dozen languages Click on CC to select
Next up is a similar test, to check your pressure response but using transparency
Make sure you have Opacity pressure set to “on” Watch the tutorial below to see how it’s done
Summary: Wacom Pen not working? If a line drawn with your mouse looks identical to a line drawn with your stylus while varying the pressure you apply to it with your stylus, and the “opacity pressure” box is checked, then Photoshop is not getting any pressure signal from your pen, stylus or tablet.
Make sure this box is checked ‘on’ if you want your pen pressure to affect the opacity of your brush stroke
The easiest and most successful solution is usually just to reboot. Especially if your stylus pressure was working fine just a few minutes before. If that doesn’t solve the problem then it is almost certainly a tablet driver issue and you should check for the latest appropriate driver for your tablet.
Restart Wacom Driver Without Rebooting
If you are using a Wacom tablet on Windows, you can try to restart your tablet driver before trying a full reboot.
If the tablet driver has stopped working you can restart it by going to the Windows Start search bar, type “Services” and open the “Services app“
Scroll down until you see “Wacom Professional Service” Right-click on it and choose “restart”
You can usually restart Wacom Tablet driver in Windows without rebooting
For more problem solving tips, including very common Windows Ink issues and to download Wacom tablet drivers gohere
If you use an XP-PEN and your brush strokes are not responding to pressure from your XP-Pen, open the PenTablet properties and make sure that the ‘Windows Ink’ check box in the bottom left is selected as shown in the screenshot below.
Turn on Windows Ink checkbox in XP-PEN PenTablet preferences to use pressure in Photoshop (Thanks for the screenshot Beth M!)
When you restart Photoshop your XP-Pen pressure should be working in Photoshop
Feel free to leave additional questions in the comments and I’ll answer if I can.
Did you know that you can convert any Photoshop brush to a mixer/blender brush by holding down ctrl+alt on Windows or Cmd+Option and clicking on it? I show you how in less than 30 seconds in this Photoshop video tutorial.
Keep in mind that not all brushes will make ideal mixer brushes and you will almost certainly want to tweak it once you make it.
This quick multi language video tutorial (click on the globe at the bottom right of the video to change language) or the written tutorial (below) will show you how to convert and export TPL files (Photoshop Tool Preset) to an ABR brush that you can import in other apps like Artstudio Pro, Procreate 5, Adobe Sketch and Fresco
You will need Photoshop CC 2019(?) or later
Find and select the tool preset of the brush you want to convert
Right click on it, select ” convert to brush preset” and it will show up as an ABR in your Brushes panel
3. Select the newly converted brush in the brushes panel.
4. Click in the top right corner of the brushes panel and
5. Choose “Export Selected Brushes”
You’ve now converted your TPL brush into an ABR that you can import into other apps such as Artstudio Pro or Procreate V5
A customer told me that she always works in 600 dpi and wanted to put her artwork into an Art Surface and make sure it remained at 600 dpi so I made this video for her, showing two different ways to do it. There’s a text summary below the video
Method 1
Change the dpi to 600 dpi with resampling off (unchecked) Then paste your 600 dpi image into it (into the green ‘Artwork’ layer)
Then you can use the crop tool to increase your canvas size to any size you need and the background will magically fill in the paper texture seamlessly. Continue reading How to Scale a Photoshop Art Surface Paper texture to 600dpi
Did you know that you don’t have to leave Photoshop to install the latest GrutBrushes?
Just watch this video tutorial below or read the text version below to learn how (or read on for the text tutorial)
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In this 2 minute Photoshop tutorial I show you how you can easily add a realistic paper texture to your photos in Photoshop using GrutBrushes Art Surfaces.
They are not just for digital painting!
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All the paper textures shown in the video are now available in the shop but if you haven’t had a chance to try one yet, just click below to download.
I get this question almost every day now and while I don’t have any proper documentation for it yet, you can import GrutBrushes TPL files into both Artstudio Pro (I love this app!) and Adobe Sketch apps
You can import any of the GrutBrushes TPLs right now, but you probably don’t want to import them one at a time. So, in this super-quick video tutorial I show you how to export a batch of TPL brushes into one file all at once. That way you can just upload that single TPL containing all your favourite GrutBrushes to DropBox, iCloud or whatever you use to get files onto your iPad.
Once you have it in the cloud you can import it into Adobe Sketch or Artstudio Pro (shown below) Someday I hope to make a video tutorial showing the whole process, but until then, both apps do currently have information in their documentation on how to import Photoshop brushes so have a look around.
Importing Photoshop Brushes (TPL) into the Artstudip Pro app on the iPad Pro
Here I am using the GrutBrushes pattern brushes on the iPad pro! Using GrutBrushes with the Apple Pencil is a dream.
GrutBrushes can be imported into ArtStudio Pro and Adobe Sketch on th iPad Pros
…and no, sorry, you can’t use these GrutBrushes in Procreate! It has it’s own wonderful brush format but it can’t import Photoshop brushes. UPDATE: Procreate GrutBrushes are now available! They are not the same as the Photoshop brushes but I think you’ll like them just as much
There are dozens of apps that claim to be able to import Photoshop brushes but what most of them mean is that they can import the tip shape, but that’s just the most visible but probably the least important feature of a good digital brush.
GrutBrushes are all about the dynamics…HOW the brush behaves, not what it’s brush tip shape looks like.
Unless an app imports all the brush dynamics it’s really not importing the brush.
Adobe Sketch and Artstudio Pro are currently the only apps that can import GrutBrushes Photoshop brushes. If any new apps come along that claim to be able to import Photoshop brushes and all the brush dynamics please let me know, I’ll be the first to buy it and test it out.
1. Open Tablet Properties
2. Change one of the buttons to ‘erase’
Now when you are in brush mode and you hold down that button on your stylus, your brush will temporarily turn into an eraser! Just release it to return to brush mode and keep painting.
The temporary eraser will have the same settings as the last eraser you used
BONUS TIP: To do this without changing your preferences, just press and HOLD the “e” key to erase temporarily. Keep holding the “e” key until you are done erasing, then when you lift your stylus and then release the “e” key your tool will switch back to the brush tool!
I know you can flip the stylus over and erase, but why interrupt your flow when you can just press on a button?
BONUS TIP 2: Digital artist SyntheticGeek added this great tip for Wacom tablet users:
“I add Keystroke Modifiers to my Wacom Stylus buttons so I can more quickly use ANY brush preset as an eraser. One button to change it to a “Clear” GrutBrush and one to change it back. “Alt + Shift + R” will change it to a Clear (erasing) GrutBrush and “Alt + Shift + M” will take it back to “Multiply”.
NOTE; Not all GrutBrushes’ painting opacities are set to Multiply as their default, some are set to Normal, which would be “Alt + Shift + N”. (for Mac users Alt = “Option”). You can always just tap the brush preset again in the GrutBrushes Tool Panel. That way, you don’t have to wonder if its default was Normal, Multiply or Whatever. “
How to make a custom button that turns your Photoshop brush into an eraser
You could adapt it to any tablet or hardware that allows custom keyboard commands to be programmed to a button
