Zigzag Fonts / Brushes for Photoshop, PSP and others

Zigzag / lightning effects graphics (fonts, shapes, brushes) for all your projects, commercial use

Date updated: May 17th, 2013

How to create a zigzag brush in Photoshop

The easiest way is to use the pen tool - just select the pen tool from the toolbox and then click the tool on the document and then shift a little to the right (the pen tool) and then up and then click again and then shift a little to the right and click lower down than the original position and repeat this for however many zigzag elements you want. You can create many variant zigzag designs using this method. Once you have created the zigzag design, go to the path palette and select the work path and then select the stroke path option. Select the required tool to use such as brush tool (this means you might have to set up the brush tool before you use the stroke option such as set the brush to a standard brush as well as small pixel size). Once you have created the brush design, flatten the image via the layer menu flatten command and then go to the edit menu and select the define brush command to save the brush to the brush palette for future use.

 

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Other options would be to use one of the zizgag shape sets from graphicxtras and then use the zigzag design with the define brush command in the edit menu to create a powerful zigzag brush.

 

Another option would be to use Illustrator and copy a created zigzag design via the clipboard to Photoshop.

 

If you want more information about the pen / zigzag brush strokes, please check out the video on youtube - how to create a zigzag brush in Photoshop ?

 

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