Now, lets generate some distance stars using noise filter. With the custom star brush created, lets paint some starfield!Īdd a new layer, and paint the sky color with photoshop soft edge round brush. To quickly delete the brush without settings, ALT-CLICK on it. If we don't do this, we will lose all the settings! Then under the brush panel again, choose Save Brushes to backup your whole set of brush. Default 1 is good enoughĪfter changing all the brush settings, we will need to save it again via New Brush Preset in the brush panel. Enable Both Axes so it scatter on X and Y axis.

Scatter - Randomise brush tip location.Flip Y Jitter - Randomly fliping brush tip in Y axis.Flip X Jitter - Randomly fliping brush tip in X axis.Angle Jitter - Randomly rotate brush tip.Minimum Diameter - Minimum brush tip size.Size Jitter - Randomise brush tip size.The brush currently is without any settings, so enable Shape Dynamics and Scattering Shape Dyamics Now, select the new brush we just created. These are the steps on how to create star brush in Photoshop.ĭraw the brush tip shape with random dotted pattern.Ĭonvert the image we draw by using, Edit > Define Brush Preset. In this tutorial, I will show you how to paint starfield by using a custom brush and also a quick way to 'generate' starfield in Photoshop by using noise.įirst, lets create a custom stars brush for Photoshop.

Star brush psd