The Photoshop grass brush...

[Elwell]

...is the new lens flare.

Please.
Just.
Stop.

[BlueMech]

It was used once to great effect, but never again.

[magicgoo]

I was a victim!

http://everythinggoodwastaken.com/images/i-heart-grassbrush.jpg

[dfacto]

Links to offending artwork?

And no, it is not the new lens flare. The flare will rule supreme as long as Photoshop exists.

[John]

On a side note, wasn't there a thread of design elements that are used way too often? If someone has the link to that please post it, that was actually a really good thread. It was more about subject matter and design elements, not things like lens flairs and types of brushes.

Link Link? Sounds interesting.

And ditto on the grass brush. There should be a plugin in Photoshop that hides everthing thats dangerous for beginners.

Edit: not to confuse you, i don't mean "give beginners the option to install it". I mean "make damn sure beginners are unable to use it."
Of course that excludes some nice brushes. I'm rather thinking of grass brush, lens flare, distortion filters, dodge/burn ...

[TheGnoll]

i use it when i feel lazy.And normally i'm even to lazy to actually open photoshop.But i really don't think it harms anyone.And about smudge tool/lensflare/PSfilters/younameit, i think it all depends on how you use it.They are just tools after all.

[Shamagim]

You can choose not to install those "special" extras...I did :)

But the brushes are another story....but for sanity sake, you can remove them from your "tips" list.

[davi]

this topic is going to split the forum between grassbrush lovers and haters.

im close to closing this thread its becoming too out of hand.

[NikitaDarkstar]

Almost everything in photoshop can look nice if you know how to use it.. it's when you just pic it and use it in default settings and do nothign more with it it's dangerous.. that goes for everything in there I guess... aslong as you can't see what tool was used and it gives the desierd effect you're good =) (in other words I got a long way to go... especially since I'm laying off photoshop for a while ;))

[jfwalls]

When I first saw the version of PS with that brush I was like "Wow! this is awesome!" Then I used it, and it just looked so fake. I prefer to make my own grass brush.

[MoP]

i use the grass brush subtly on everything, it adds a nice astroturf texture

[Dutton]

Viva la Painter Image Hose! I'll never have to hand paint birds, grass, forests, cars, musical notes, fuzzy kittens, or anything else again! bwahaha......

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[fukifino]

I actually like that image. :x

[MoP]

Fukifino - Maybe, but here's one you won't like:

http://greveson.co.uk/art2.jpg

[mwillustration]

if this thread was about anything brush but the grass brush, there'd be less animosity.

(i hear ya davi)
:)

[jfwalls]

Oh yes! I love the plastic wrap!!!

[Joeslucher]

Viva la Painter Image Hose! I'll never have to hand paint birds, grass, forests, cars, musical notes, fuzzy kittens, or anything else again! bwahaha......

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Oh god that had my sides hurting. Genius.

[Snarfevs]

90%+ of the brushes you find online are products of an even lower artistic paradigm than this. I'm talking brushes intended to be used as single stamps. It is so damn hard to find brushes intended for painterly work because for each there are roughly 10E5 brush packs of barbed wire rings and cuts (for sprucing up your second-hand gothic angel) and tiny text (y'know because abstract 3d was just too time consuming before) The problem is not in photoshop but in a skewed vision of what looks good in artists first picking up photoshop. It is hard to make the lens flare, grass brush etc look good but it has been done, and honestly if it were not there it would be complained about, and sooner or later KPT or flaming pear would have a plugin.

Photoshop empowers users to make bad artistic choices with utmost convenience.

[Goog]

ditto to what Mike C said. It can be used in moderation.

(BTW, my name is mike c, coincidence, eh?)

[Ilaekae]

All I know is, it's nice to be here where everybody is just so fuckin' good that we all automatically cut the erasers off our pencils...



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