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Bullet Hole Brushes

 

Here we will uses a series of custom shapes to create a bullet hole on a brush.

Corey Barker

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

14 Comments

  1. KevJumba said on — November 2, 2008 @ 10:51 pm

    1st. Very Nice.

  2. iNck said on — November 3, 2008 @ 4:37 pm

    been tryin to access this since yesterday…

    anyway, awesome tutorila as usual…

    thx!

  3. Julia said on — November 3, 2008 @ 4:49 pm

    Nice tutorial! Thanks Mr. Barker. :) The sound effects give this tutorial the special touch! ;)

  4. JeffCT said on — November 3, 2008 @ 6:58 pm

    ! Great sound effects !

  5. Bob Murray said on — November 3, 2008 @ 9:38 pm

    Thanks for the reprise.
    Gotta luv the brush engine.

  6. joe said on — November 4, 2008 @ 12:17 pm

    Nice 1 :D haha gotta have sound effects,

  7. sheri hulan said on — November 6, 2008 @ 12:02 am

    hi cory, you really do some cool stuff but just recently you made a splat brush that reminded me of Jackson Pollock (sp?) anyway is there a way to modify a brush so that I could mimick his effect. It seems that the splat brush was very close. If you have any hints on how I could do that it would be so cool. I have been using the principles in your bullet technique but I can’t quite get the look I want.

  8. joe said on — November 9, 2008 @ 10:27 am

    Any chance on a tutorial on how to make that super spy writing?

  9. Bamse said on — February 2, 2009 @ 7:13 am

    I love that sound effects, i make it sound so realistic ;)

  10. Dirk Smith said on — February 23, 2009 @ 5:03 pm

    Excellent tutorial Cory. I used this one and another one of yours to make a bullet hole brush to come up with this poster. I hope you like it. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dereksbeard/3304872012/

  11. random said on — April 26, 2009 @ 12:53 am

    Very nice tutorial, thanks :D

  12. Lavan said on — June 12, 2009 @ 10:20 am

    Thanks nice tutorial very helpful

  13. zem said on — February 19, 2010 @ 3:50 am

    Cool… nice tut…

  14. joe said on — June 4, 2010 @ 3:15 am

    wow bro that helped me solve a few problems,thanks

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