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[I.Need.Your.Help.Please.]

Hi there! I really need your help with a photoshop matter that's simply driving me crazy. So I used to use photoshop a lot and I recently got back into it...but i've forgotten some things. I used to be able to take a picture and make it into a brush...now I've searched online on how to do this but the way people do it is different to what I need and used to do... I uploaded two pictures to show you (the one shows the brush i made using a picture, the other is the original picture which I used to make the brush). The problem is I don't remember at all how I achieved this. I believe the magic wand was involved/some kind of black/white outlines/contrast selecting thing. PLEASE HELP ME ITS DRIVING ME CRAZY!

 

[ALB68]

Here is tut on making brushes . http://www.photoshopessentials.com/basics/photoshop-brushes/make-brushes/

 

[I.Need.Your.Help.Please.]

Unfortunately your link doesn't answer my question in my initial post...That is a generic piece on making brushes; what I was asking for was different - please see the photos...

 

[ALB68]

To make a brush from the dogs face as you describe, you would need to select that area, which looks to be the white pixels. Yes, use the magic wand, uncheck contiguous, then click on any of the white in the dogs face. Magic wand will then select all of the white. Then Ctrl J and that will put your selection on a new layer, from which you can make your brush. Edit/ Define Brush Preset, give it a name. Then when you click on the brush tool. your new brush will be at the bottom of the pallette.
Now, you may want to change the contrast, do that with a Levels adjustment. If you want that on a black background as shown, put another layer behind the layer you just made, fill it with black and merge down .
Here is a quickie I made from your wolf/

 

[ibclare]

You can also, if you like make your image ergo your brush a higher contrast by adding a threshold layer adjustment. Just something to think about.

 

[IamSam]

Here's my version, not exactly like the OP's example but they might like it.

I desatted the Wolf image.
I isolated the Wolf using a layer mask and mostly the Brush Tool.
I duplicated the layer, right clicked and Applied the layer Mask.

I was left with a (unturned) Positive version of the Wolf which I saved as a brush.


This brush used with Black as your foreground color and a light/White BG gave this result....


I then copied the unturned wolf layer and reversed it using Command/Control + I.
This gave me a negative version of the Wolf which I saved as a brush.


This brush used with White as your foreground color and a dark/black BG gave this result....


Just one way to make these types of brushes.

 

[Paul]

All those wolves and not one piggy or gal in a red hooded coat:mrgreen:

 

[IamSam]

There you go Paul, just for you!

 

[I.Need.Your.Help.Please.]

AWESOME Thanks guys! I think ALB68's example is closest, though I still think it seems like more steps than I used to do it it. Nonetheless, this works! Thanks all