She Sings From Somewhere You Can’t See

This is…sort of…a picture of the h1n1 bug. I found it posted in a less-altered form on Boing Boing and thought, hey, this would make an excellent photoshop brush. And it does.

I made the edges more jaggy because flat edges make a brush less useful sometimes. (You can tell where the edge of the sample was. So that’s why I paint the edges white and then run around making it less uniform.)

If you would like to use this brush, just open it up in photoshop, and select all. Then go to the Edit menu (second one over on the top) and go down to Define Brush Preset. Voila! Name your brush H1N1 and have at it.

Original photo here and a hat tip to Boing Boing.

Here are some textures you can make with this brush. As you can see, it does lava/blood corpuscles, lilacs, undersea coral beds, and bubbles. I actually think this brush turned out pretty swell.

Here are the presets I used for the brush. You will find the brush palette up at the top if you have your brush tool selected. (It looks like a little folder with dots on it.) Alternately, there is a brushes palette pullout tab on the side of your docked (which looks like a jar with brushes in it.)

Have fun painting with this brush. This post was made possible by the letters H and N, and the number 1.