Fractal Abstract Brushers

In this tutorial I am going to teach you how to make cool fractal abstract brushers, these brushers can be used both for signatures, abstract art and even for Websites bars.

First of all open a new document 700 x 700 px.

Make sure that the foreground and background color black and white (like in this picture)

Now go to Filter>Render>Clouds and apply. Press Ctrl+F twice. (It will repeat the step two more times) you should get something like in this picture.

Now go to Filter>Render>Difference Clouds and apply. Press Ctrl+F 5 times. You should get something like this.

Now invert the image by Pressing Ctrl+I. Now press Ctrl+L for Level's window to be opened. Apply this Settings and press OK.

Your Result should look something like that.

This step is very important, the final outcome is much depended what you do in this step, I will show you what parameters I used but try to use different ones as well.

Go to Filter>Distort>Wave apply this setting (or your own) and press OK,

Now go to Edit>Fade Wave

And make Opacity 60%

Normal and press OK.

Now Press Ctrl+F and go

Again to Edit>Fade Wave

This time make Opacity 50%

And Screen.

*You can Use Shift+Ctrl+F

It is a Shortcut to Fade. You should get something close to this.

Now go to Image>Adjustment>Brightness Contrast.

Apply Brightness -10 and contrast +15 and press OK.

Now go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Use Radius 2 and press OK.

Now press Shift+Ctrl+F (or go to Edit>Fade Blur) and make it 100% Lighten.

Now apply Filter>Sharpen>Sharpen. Press Shift+Ctrl+F make it 60% normal. Your Result Should looks something like this:

Now it is time to make the brushers. We are going to use the Lasso Tool.

Make sure to Put 15 px Feather. Surround the area you wish to make your brush from. Now Press Ctrl+C open new layer and press Ctrl+V.

Tip: When you make brushers avoid selecting edges.

Invert your Image before saving the brushers. *I am not going to explain how to save brushers there plenty tutorials explaining it.

I made 5 brushers out of this document. If you want more brushers you will need to start from the first step and repeat everything.

Well guys we are done! Here is example of Site Bar using only these Brushers.

Click to enlarge