

There's six main categories of brush dynamics - Shape Dynamics, Scattering, Texture, Dual Brush, Color Dynamics, and Other Dynamics - all of which (as we'll see) are found in Photoshop's Brushes panel.

They also happen to be our topic for this series of tutorials! We can add a texture to the brush, scatter multiple copies of it along each brush stroke, combine two brushes together, and more! Adobe calls these options Brush Dynamics, and they're just as amazing now as they were when Adobe first introduced them back in Photoshop 7. Where things really get interesting, though, is when we start controlling the behavior of a brush as we paint with it, dynamically changing things like the brush's size, angle, roundness, color and opacity! In a previous tutorial, we learned how to make our own custom Photoshop brushes, and it can be lots of fun to design the initial shape of a brush, officially known as the brush tip.
