Photopea comes with 19 brushes by default,
and there are some useful ones included. But, there might not be enough there for you. So, if you’ve wanted to add some new brushes
to your library, let’s take a look at how you can do that, by filling out your collection
with some new, custom made brushes. First, we need to get some new brushes. In Photopea, you can import new brushes that
are in the .ABR format, which is what Photoshop uses. Check the link in the description, which will
take you to Matt Heath’s Gumroad page, where he has a free Photoshop Illustration brush
set, which has some really useful brushes included. Just click on Photoshop Illustration Brush
Set, set your price at 0, or more if you’d like to be generous, and click add to cart. After that, go ahead and go through the checkout
process. Once you get your content, you’ll end up
on this page, and just download the Matt Heath 8B Brushes Zip file. Once it’s downloaded, go ahead and unzip
it, and delete the zip file. Inside the folder, we’ve got this 0 MH 8B
Brushes ABR file. This is what we need to import into Photopea. I have Photopea open here, with a blank new
project. If I select the Brush tool, by pressing B,
and right click the canvas, you can see the default brushes we’ve got. There are three ways we can import brushes,
and we’ll use the easiest method first. Just drag and drop your ABR file into Photopea,
and the brushes will be added. It’s asking us If we want to save the brushes
to local storage, so they’ll be available every time we open Photopea. For now, hit cancel, we don’t want that
yet. Now, if we right click the canvas, and scroll
down, we have a bunch of new brushes added to our collection. We’ve got the round texture brush, which
is good for getting a painterly look. And we’ve got the Splatter 1 brush, which
gives a cool splatter effect. But, as of now, these brushes are only added
for this browser session. If I reload the page, and start a new project,
we only have access to the original 19 brushes. That’s because we need to add our ABR file
to Local Storage. So, let’s import our ABR file again, the
second way, which is by right clicking the canvas when the brush tool is selected, and
clicking this little arrow here. Select Load ABR from the dropdown, and you
can browse to the folder containing your brushes, select it, and pick open. Now, we get the option to store our brushes
in Local Storage. This time, click OK. If we select the brush tool, and right click
the canvas, we can see that we have our brushes imported, and if we reload the page, and start
a new project, select the brush tool and right click the canvas, and all of our brushes are
available. If you want to add more brushes, you can repeat
this process and add multiple ABR files. What if you decide later, that you don't want
these brushes anymore, and you want to go back to just the default set? To do that, we need to manage the Local Storage,
and delete our ABR file, that way it wont load next time we run Photopea. Go to Edit, and Local Storage. Here we have a list of all the files that
are loaded when we start Photopea, which, in my case, is just the 8b brushes ABR file. To delete it, we need to select it by clicking
on it, and then click delete. If you wanted to backup the files before you
delete them, you could also download them as a Zip file, but we don’t need to do that. Right now, we can still use the brushes, they’ll
be included in memory until the browser is reloaded. I’ll reload the browser, start a new project,
and we’re back to our default brushes. The last way to load ABR files to Photopea,
is by going to File, Open, and then selecting the file. Basically the same as right clicking and loading
through the dropdown menu. Finally, let’s look at how we can create
our own brushes, and use our custom made brushes in our projects. Switch the foreground color to black, and
paint the shape you want your brush to be. It can be a stroke brush, for making longer,
fluid brush strokes, or it can be like a stamp, in the shape of a leaf or grass. I’m going to make a simple shape for a stroke
brush. Using black, I’ll make the shape and then
fill it in. Then, go up to Edit, down to Define New, and
select Brush. Now, your brush is added to the library of
brushes. Unfortunately, right now, it is kind of difficult
to save your brush for use when you reload photopea. With the brush selected, you can right click,
and click on this little arrow, and select Export as ABR. The problem is, this exports all of your brushes. So, if you reload, and import the exported
ABR, you’ll have two of every brush in your library. I don’t know of anyway to export the new
brush alone, other than deleting every default brush, one by one. So, hopefully that gets fixed in the future. Once you have your new brush, there are a
few settings you can change to alter how the brush performs. Open up the Brush properties tab here, and
from here, we can set the angle of the brush, which is useful while your painting, when
you have a brush that is meant to be used directionally. One common problem people get with brushes,
is this effect, when I drag my brush sideways. It leaves a jagged pattern, when I want it
to be smoothed out, like paint would be if you dragged the brush across the canvas. This looks like you dabbed the brush over
and over, and that’s because that’s what Photopea is doing. It is repeating the brush shape after a certain
number of pixels. To smooth it out, we can change this with
the spacing value. If we increase the spacing value, the gap
between each placement of the brush will be larger. As we lower the spacing, the brushes will
be placed closer together. If we drag it down to 1 percent, it will be
solid, with no jagged edges. We’re not going to cover the other three
categories, Tip Dynamics, Scatter, and Color Dynamics right now. But, each of these can be used to add randomization
to the placement, rotation and color of the brushes as you draw. Experiment with them, and see what you can
come up with. Thanks for watching. I’ll see you next time.
