1. Make your own Multicolored Brush and use in on your self-portrait. Hand in both your brush file, psd file and your jpeg.
Georgia DiFalco
2. Download and install a brush you like and use it on a self-portrait. Hand in your brush file, psd, and your jpeg.
Tia Mason Lighting Brush & Multicolored Brush
Yazin Al Janabi Crackle Brush
3. Using brushes, you downloaded or made, create an amazing artwork that colors a photograph you took or makes something disappear. This does not need to be a self-portrait. Use Select and Mask and alter your photographs background or objects in the photo to make it cool.
Allison Oliver
A watercolor brush with multiple colors was created to paint the background for this image of Mr. Palombo. Other areas such as the bricks and windows were painted one color at a time.
Sites to download Photoshop brushes
You may have to search "Free Photoshop Brushes"
Using Illustrator? search "Free Illustrator Brushes"
How to Install Brushes in Photoshop First find brushes you want and download them. In your download folder click on the brushes if in a Zip file to unzip them.
Then go to Edit – Presets – Export/Import Presets… Select Import Folder find your brushes in the Downloads folder Add All – Import Presets Windows – Brushes - check to see if they are at the bottom of your list of brushes - If not click on the 4 lines tab (upper right corner) They might appear under Legacy Brushes
If the brushes did not show up... Click the down arrow next to the font size. Then click the settings gear. They will pop up under Legacy Brushes. Then click on them and Click OK to Restore the brushes.
If it still did not show up you may have to close Photoshop and reopen Photoshop. Then go back to the down arrow, then gear settings and look under Legacy Brushes.