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Notes in Photoshop Elements 14

This is the second in a little spontaneous series that erupted as I've been working my way through Anna's new Advanced Brushes for Photoshop Elements class.

I started by making the art stamp brush from a mixed media collage (the basic brush is the lady with text, word labels, a few florals, and pieces of a playing card). It's my second brush so it's not that great but I am really enjoying the process.

From there, I moved onto other techniques covered in the class: distressing a brush and modifying it with additional brushes. The latter really caught my fancy and by the end my art stamp brush had grown to gigantic proportions, including scrollwork, wordart, stains, spatter, and more--all included in the brush set that comes with the class. Bushmaking turns out to be a pretty mesmerizing process for me.

Of course I wanted to use my new brush immediately, so I stamped it on a new canvas and added a background composed from several background papers on various blending modes. And then I had another brush frenzyagain adding most of the brushes that came in the set for the class over and below my art stamp, and a few of the new flower brushes besides. Along the way, I colorized my art stamp by overlaying transfers onto it using various blending modes.

At the end, I added a few botanicals and I was done. I guess you could say I've become hooked on making brushes.