Photoshop Tutorial for kids – Part 2

This is a series of posts written to teach Photoshop to kids. I am teaching Photoshop to my eight year old daughter who shows a lot of interest towards designing. My attempt to teach her photoshop is written in a series of posts. The previous chapters in this series are1. Introduction – Talks about various kids graphic software / online photo editor2. Tutorials – Part 1 – Introduces brush, eraser, foreground and background

In the last post, I introduced brush sizes and shapes. This post is about learning to select installed brush and stamp with it.

To select the brush, click on “Brush” on the tools and pull down the arrow near the brush in the top palette.

There are huge lots of brushes come with Photsohop. A lot more variety of brushes are available for download in the internet for a fee or free. Please check the copyright usage of the brushes if you are downloading for free.

How to use the selected brush to stamp

1. Select the brush from the palette.

2. Adjust the size of the brush by pressing “[“(increase brush size) or “]” (decrease brush size) key in the keyboard.

3.  Select the foreground color.

4. Stamp (tap) the brush to create the design on the working area.

Few sample pictures created using this technique

Grass and Leaves are brushes.. Created by stamping or dragging the brush

The same brush is repeated thrice

The moon and clouds are in single brush and the plant is separate brush

As you can see in the 3rd picture, by changing the color of the brush to black, the mood of the picture got completed changed.

As my daughter got completed with brushes, I will be moving to other features in the coming days!

The previous series in the post are

1. Introduction – Talks about various kids graphic software / online photo editor

2. Tutorials – Part 1 – Introduces Brush, Eraser, Foreground, background

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