Video Tutorials
How to Paint Realistic Splatter Effects Using a Custom Brush in Photoshop
There’s a specific category of retouching request I get from ad agency clients that used to slow me down every single time: adding painterly, organic-looking elements to an otherwise clean photograph. Powder bursts, ink splashes, paint splatters. The kind of thing that looks effortless in the final comp but eats up an hour if you’re doing it by hand with a generic round brush. What I eventually figured out, and what this tutorial nails cleanly, is that the real solution lives inside Photoshop’s Brush Settings panel, a place most people open once, get confused by, and never return to.
