Hi, this is Chris Legaspi. And in this video, we're going to talk about how to paint in Photoshop. Now I've been a professional artist for over 20 years, and I started my career in the video game industry. And a lot of what I had to do was to create a digital illustrations or digital paintings and using a Photoshop was my primary tool.

And, um, When people say painting in Photoshop, when you hear that term, it typically means that you want to create or mimic the look of traditional medium, like oil paint, acrylics, airbrush, or watercolor. So, when you hear painting, uh, and Photoshop, that's typically what that is referring to now. How, how do you paint in Photoshop?

Well, what you do. Start with, uh, you need some kind of electronic interface and, uh, right now they whack them tablet. It's a, it's a digital pen electronic pen that allows you to interface with Photoshop directly. So, helps you to mimic the drawing motion. Now you could use. You could use a mouse obviously, but, uh, um, um, an electronic pen, like a welcome tablet, just feels much more natural.

It makes the process more efficient. And, uh, once you're in Photoshop, the menu that you're going to be using to create, uh, the painted look is, uh, the custom brush menu and the brush menus is one of the most important menus in my, uh, from my experience. Uh, and Photoshop. And what it allows you to do is to create these digital brushes and allows you to create various textures and effects that mimic and simulate the look of traditional mediums, like oils and acrylics in, in Photoshop.

And you may be wondering what, why, why would you want to paint in Photoshop? Well, one of the main advantages is editing because, um, In, in Photoshop, you, you know, you have tools like layers and image adjustments that allows you to edit, uh, you know, the drawing loves you and the value it allows you to edit the color very, very quickly allows you to erase, undo and things like that.

So editing is one of the main advantages and also, it's a big benefit for, uh, commercial artists and illustrators, particularly, um, those who want to display their work electronically or in print. Uh, it's very, very helpful, you know, for commercial illustrators, you know, I, myself, um, now I'm working in, um, in the movie poster industry and, uh, I use it quite a bit and also, uh, all of my, uh, colleagues use Photoshop to create, uh, finished pieces, finished movie posters as well.

So that's it for this episode. And until next time, get out there, keep drawing, keep painting, and build up that mileage. Bye for now.