1. Choose the image you want to make into a brush.

Let's use this rose photo I took as an example. It's going to need some editing before it will be a good brush. As of right now, If I made it into a brush it would look like this:

2. Now the brush is ok. But it's not very usefull because of the background. What we want to do is have a WHITE background. White is transparent (clear) when you make a brush, so anything you don't want to show up should be white.

3. This assumes some knowledge of photoshop. If you're uneasy about having to edit photos, look for stock (that you have permission to use) with white backgrounds of search for tutorials on how to better erase backgrounds. I'm only going to give a brief explanation here.

4. Choose your eraser brush and choose one of the round brushes. I usually like a soft brush, but it depends on your preference. Erase the background like I did. Press CTRL + D if you're getting a colored background when you erase instead of white, this will reset your background color to white for you.

OR select your lasso tool or pen tool and draw carefully around the image. Again, I'm not going to explain this, look for a tutorial on how to use these tools if you aren't atisfied with the eraser nethod.

5. Clear your brush menu.
If you have brushes loaded, then they will be saved with your set. Not good, especially if you plan on sharing that set. So first we need to start with clean state.

6. Go to Edit > Preset Manager

7. Press CTRL + A to select all brushes. Than press delete all.

NOTE: You can always reload your brushes, this will NOT delete them from your computer.

8. Create and save your brush.
Now that we have a clean slate and our image, we're ready to make a brush.

With your image in the front go to Edit > Define brush

9. You'll get an option menu like one below, showing the brush thumbnail and an option to name it. You don't have to name it, but you can. You will be naming the entire set (multiple brushes) when you save your brush(es).

Click ok, and you'll have made one brush!

10. Your brush will now look something like this when used:

11. Now click the brush tool on your tool menu. A menu should now be at the top of your screen that looks like this:

12. Then click the arrow you would click to select a brush normally (see the arrow below).

13. Next click the arrow in a circle that is pointing to the right:

14. The box outlined in red will appear. This is what we need to save brushes in a "set". The brushes that will be saved in your "set" will appear in the box highlighted in blue.

Go to Save Brushes (it isn't avaliable in the above menu because there are no brushes to save).

15. A menu will pop up allowing you to name your brush set and save it to a specific location on your computer (just like saving image). When you've done that slick save.

Now you have your very own brush set.

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