We'll want to create a square document for our brush, so set both your Width and Height values to 200 and change the measurement type to Pixels.

This is where we enter our own custom document settings. What we want is the Preset Details panel along the right. Most of the dialog box is taken up by a large area showing thumbnails of both your recently-opened documents and your recently-used document sizes. Don't worry, this only takes a minute.įirst, in Photoshop CC, the redesigned New Document dialog box will appear on your screen. Then, to keep this tutorial compatible with CS6 as well, we'll look at the traditional version. We'll look at the redesigned version first. If you're using Photoshop CS6, you'll see the older, traditional version. If you're using Photoshop CC as I am here (and your copy of CC is up to date), you'll see the redesigned version.

In Photoshop CC 2017, Adobe completely redesigned the New Document dialog box, so which version of it you see depends on which version of Photoshop you're using. Here's the photo I'll be using for this tutorial. If you're using CS5 or earlier, you'll want to follow along with the original version of this tutorial.

This version of the tutorial has been updated and expanded for Photoshop CC but is fully compatible with Photoshop CS6. There's quite a few steps involved but they're all very simple, and as always, I'll be explaining each step as we go so everyone can follow along. Finally, we'll add a blurring effect to the sparkle trail and give it a colorful glow to help it look more magical. Then, once we've created the sparkle brush, we'll turn it into a sparkle trail using Photoshop's powerful dynamic brush options to control the behavior of the brush as we paint. In the first part of this tutorial, we'll create our sparkle brush from scratch using a few of Photoshop's built-in brushes to add a variety of sparkles to our design.

Photoshop makes creating sparkle brushes and sparkle trails extremely easy.

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