How to Use ParticleShop

Artistic Photo Composites

Artist Caroline Julia Moore demonstrates how to use ParticleShop brushes to create a compelling digital art image from a photo.

How to Add Particle Brushstrokes to your Photos

Professional photographer Renee Robyn demonstrates how to use the ParticleShop plugin to enhance your photos.

How to Work With 16-bit Images

Professional photographer Renee Robyn shares her tips and tricks for working with 16-bit images in ParticleShop.

Automatic Layer Duplication in ParticleShop

With the ParticleShop 1.2 update you now have a quick-launch panel that will help you automatically create duplicate layers.

How to Use Non-destructive Layer Editing

Non-destructive layer editing in ParticleShop allows you to work on a duplicate copy of your image without changing the original.

Using the ParticleShop Workspace

Take a tour through the ParticleShop workspace and learn how to use the grab-and-go tools available for the amazing Particle brushes.

Exploring ParticleShop with Aaron Rutten

Painter Master Aaron Rutten gives an overview of the ParticleShop plugin followed by a short tutorial on how to use it.
Brush Pack Tutorials

How to Use the Abstract Brush Pack

Painter Master Elite Jeremy Sutton demonstrates how to use the Abstract brushes to push, pull, scratch and scribble to bring your concepts to life.

How to Use the Alcohol Ink Brush Pack

Learn how to create beautiful ink pours and spills with the fluid and transparent brushes in the Alcohol Ink brush pack for Painter.

How to Use the All That Glitters Brush Pack

Learn how to use Painter’s All That Glitters brush pack to enhance your digital artwork with a pinch of sparkle, shimmer or mystical highlights.

How to Use the Android Jones Master Brush Pack

Watch a demonstration of the dynamic brushes in the Android Jones Master Pack that are based on his unique electro-mineralism style of art.

How to Use the Animation Brush Pack

Learn how to use the dripping, glowing, and twinkling brushes to create magic on your canvas with the Animation brush pack for Painter and ParticleShop.

How to Use the Art Nouveau Brush Pack

Get a preview of the abstract Art Nouveau brushes for Painter and Painter Essentials, inspired by one of the greatest decorative painters, Gustav Klimt.

How to Use the Artisan Pastels Brush Pack

Learn how to use the Artisan Pastels brush pack for Painter to create drawings and paintings that glow with luminous color and velvety texture.

How to Use the Artisan Pens Brush Pack

In this tutorial, Painter Master Elite Justin Buus demonstrates how he uses Artisan Pens brush pack to build on his linework in an illustration.

How to Use the Atmosphere Brush Pack

Painter Master Aaron Rutten show you how to use the Atmosphere Brush Pack to add realistic clouds, stars, moons, and more!

How to Use the Bold Strokes Brushes

From sprinkles to grunge, lightwave to wisp. Painter Master Aaron Rutten gives a demo of the Bold Strokes brush pack.

How to Use the Bristly Brush Pack

This tutorial reviews each of the brushes in the new Bristly brush pack and how they can be used to bring various types of materials to life.

How to Use the Bubbles Brush Pack

Watch a demonstration of the effervescent brushes in the Bubbles brush pack and see how they can be used to create all kinds of unique bubbly shapes.

How to Use the Celebration Brushes

Learn how to use the glowing Celebration brushes to add rocket trails, sparklers, glow sticks, confetti and more to your photo composites and paintings.

How to Use the Cher Pendarvis Master Brush Pack

Learn how to use the wet brushes in the Cher Pendarvis Master Pack to capture the essence of Cher’s tranquil landscape painting style.

How to Use the Chunky Paint Brushes

Learn how to add just the right texture and thickness to any painting with the large, stocky, and chubby brushes in the Chunky Paint brush pack.

How to Use the Creepers Brush Pack

Painter Master Elite Don Seegmiller shows you how he uses the Creepers brush pack to add some details and finishing touches to a character.

How to Use the Debris Brush Pack

Find out how to add dust and fuzz, glowing organic strands, jagged lightning effects, and more to your images!

How to Use the Don Seegmiller Master Brush Pack

Learn how to use the Don Seegmiller Master Brush Pack, which includes brushes that he uses to create his diverse and amusing character illustrations.

How to Use the Dry Texture Brush Pack

See how you can roughen up your illustrations with an expressive, hard-edged graphic style using the Dry Texture brush pack for Painter.

How to Use the Fabric Brush

Learn how to use the Fabric brushes for Painter and ParticleShop to add a beautiful and realistic fluttery fabric effect to a fashion design image.

How to Use the Fabric Fantasy Brushes

Watch as professional photographer and artist Marie Otero creates a stunning image using the Fabric Fantasy brushes.

How to Use the Fantasy Brushes

Painter Master Justin Buus gives us a quick tour of his favorite brush pack for ParticleShop: the Fantasy Brush Pack!

How to Use the Fashion Illustration Brushes

Learn how to use the brushes in the Fashion Illustration pack to capture shape and form when creating fashion sketches and studies.

How to Use the Fine Art Brushes

Painter Master Elite Karen Bonaker shows you some exciting ways to enhance your paintings with Fine Art brush pack.

How to Use the Fireworks Brushes

Learn how to paint and combine sparkles, explosions, flashes, wisps and more to add unique fireworks to your artwork using Painter’s Fireworks brushes.

How to Use the Fur Brush Pack

Painter Master Justin Buus shows you how to use the Fur brushes to create furry, fuzzy and flowing hair effects.

How to Use the Gestural Illustration Brushes

Learn how to use Painter’s Gestural Illustration brushes to apply expressive brushstrokes based on the subjective movement of a painter’s arm or hand.

How to Use the Grainy Brush Pack

Learn how to add expressive texture with the realistic Grainy brushes that are sensitive to your chosen paper grain.

How to Use the Graphic Impact Brush Pack

Painter Master Aaron Rutten shows you how to create all manner of textures, patterns, and effects with the Graphic Impact brushes.

How to Use the Grunge Brush Pack

Painter Master Aaron Rutten shares his tips for using the Grunge brush pack for Painter and ParticleShop in composite design.

How to Use the Hair Brush Pack

In this 3-part tutorial, Painter Master Heather Michelle Chinn gives you a comprehensive look at using the Hair brush pack in ParticleShop.

How to Use the Halloween Brush Pack

Learn how to add some ghostly and ghastly effects to your artwork using the Halloween brush pack for ParticleShop and Painter.

How to Use the Impressions Brush Pack

Elite Painter Master Karen Bonaker shows you how she transforms a photo into a painting using the Impression brush pack.

How to Use the Inking Brush Pack

Learn how to use Painter’s Inking brushes to add illustrative flair and a variety of inky washed strokes that capture the spirit of your subject.

How to Use the JulieAnne Jonker Master Brush Pack

Learn how to create classic photo art masterpieces using the soft blenders and textured brushes in the JuliAnne Jonker Master Pack for Painter.

How to Use the Karen Bonaker Master Brush Pack

Learn how to use the brushes in the Karen Bonaker Master Pack to paint traditional landscape elements such as trees, grass, clouds and mountains.

How to use the Leaves brush pack

Learn how to use Painter’s Leaves brush pack to replicate Mother Nature’s greenery and make your landscape paintings come alive.

How to Use the Light It Up Brush Pack

Painter Master Elite Aaron Rutten brings these streets to life with the Light it Up brush pack, adding lightning, lens flares, tail-light streaks, and more!

How to Use the Majestic Animals Brush Pack

This short video will introduce you to the 15 Majestic Animals brush variants and how to best use them to add wings, feathers, spots, horns and more to your animal images.

How to Use the Manga II Brush Pack

See Painter’s Manga II brushes in action! This brush pack is just what you need to back up your imagination and create simple, clean characters.

How to Use the Michelle Webb Master Brush Pack

The Michelle Webb Master Brush Pack has all the makings for creating paintings that have organic looking brushstrokes with fantasy art flair.

How to Use the Mike Thompson Master Brush Pack

Learn how to use the Mike Thompson Master Brush Pack to create entertainment art with impact and craft realistic characters with care.

How to Use the Nature Brush Pack

This short video will introduce you to the 15 Nature brush variants and how to best use them to add that natural environment touch to your work.

How to Use the Neon Lights Brushes

Get some tips from Painter Master Elite Aaron Rutten on how to use the Neon Lights brushes to create glowing, twinkling, sparkling lights and lasers.

How to Use the Photo Portrait Brushes

Painter Master Helen Yancy shows how to use the photo portrait brushes to give your photos an artistic makeover.

How to Use the Pop Art Brushes

Paint your own interpretation of pop culture using Painter’s fun and bold Pop Art brushes to create color, shape, and movement.

How to Use the Rain Brushes

Learn how to use Painter’s Rain brushes to add realistic effects to your artwork, from a sprinkling of droplets and fine mist to a drenching downpour.

How to Use the Rust and Patina Brushes

Painter Master Elite Aaron Rutten demonstrates the Rust and Patina brush pack, by transforming a simple photo into a complex artwork in just a few minutes.

How to use the Snow brushes

Learn how to use Painter’s realistic Snow brushes to create a winter wonderland scene with swirling, falling and powdery white snowflakes.

How to Use the Spaced Out Brush Pack

Learn how to add shimmering auroras, swirling nebulas, fields of stars and more with the Spaced Out brushes.

How to Use the Splatter Brush Pack

Painter Master Aaron Rutten demonstrates how to use the Splatter brushes to create paint, ink and watercolor splatter effects.

How to Use the Splish and Splash Brushes

Watch a demonstration of the Splish & Splash brushes plus get helpful tips for working with Painter shortcuts from Painter Master Elite Jeremy Sutton.

How to Use the Spring Brush Pack

Painter Master Elite Aaron Rutten demonstrates how he uses the Spring brushes to add birds, foliage, flowers, sunbeams and rain showers to an image.

How to Use the Starry Night Brush Pack

Get a preview of Painter’s Starry Night brushes and see how they can be used to create realistic cosmos and stars, from nova bursts to shooting asteroids.

How to Use the Stipple Brush Pack

Get a preview of Painter’s Stipple brushes and see how these brushes can be used to create patterns faster and easier than using individual strokes.

How to Use the Storm Brush Pack

Here’s a quick demo showing how to use the Storm brushes for Painter and ParticleShop to create lightning, haze, wind and other stormy elements.

How to Use the Suminagashi Ink Brush Pack

Get a preview of the brushes in Painter’s Suminagashi Ink brush pack and see how you can transform you canvas into vibrant and colorful floating ink.

How to Use the Superhero Brush Pack

Painter Master Gear Duran shows you how to use the Superhero brush pack, including his favorite brushes.

How to Use the Tide Brush Pack

Learn how to create ripples, sea spray, bubbles and rushing water with the 15 watery-themed brushes in the Tide brush pack for Painter and ParticleShop.

How to Use the Translucent Brush Pack

Painter Master Elite Justin Buus demonstrates how to use the Translucent brushes to create droplets, prisms, reflections and other illuminating effects.

How to Use the Urban Brush Pack

Add a splash of excitement and a burst of boldness to your cityscape paintings, using the Urban brush pack for ParticleShop, Painter and Painter Essentials.

How to Use the Watery Brush Pack

Learn how to create everything from fluid skies to rocky beaches with colossal waves, white caps and ripples using Painter’s Watery brush pack.

How to use the Wedding brushes

Professional photographer and artist Marie Otero demonstrates how to use various brushes in the Wedding brush pack for Painter and ParticleShop.

How to use the Wilderness brush pack

Learn how to create your own uncultivated terrain without having to venture outside, using the Wilderness brush pack for ParticleShop and Painter.

How to Use the Winter Brushes

In this tutorial, Painter Master Justin Buus shows you how to use the Winter brushes to create swirling, snowy, frosty effects.