For the last 3 years I’ve been digitally inking with Painter. Why Painter? My inking results in Photoshop were not yielding the line variations I wanted.

Now that I have a new Intuos4 tablet to play with, I decided to give Photoshop another chance. I also experimented a bit more with the brush options. Below are the settings I have found that yield good results. It’s still not quite as awesome as the Scratchboard Tool in Painter, but it’s very close.

Custom Photoshop Brush

Custom Photoshop Brush

Custom Photoshop Brush

End result: I’m now very tempted to ink a strip in Photoshop, just to see what the overall results will be.

Enjoy!

-Krishna

P.S. Do you want multiple Undos in Photoshop? You can remap the Cmd-Z key to “Step Backward” – which does precisely that.

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