This is my first tutorial so please excuse any mistakes you find.. This tutorial will show you how you could use low resolution brushes or shapes in a high resolution design. Lets get to it...

First create a new HIGH resolution page. I created an A4 page with a 300 pixel/inch resolution.

Now choose any low resolution brush or shape. I am using a low resolution star shape brush. The brush is actually 29px but I increased it to a value over 500px.

When you draw the brush, you will find that it is very distorted because of the resizing:

This distorsion can be fixed. Select this drawn brush by ctrl+click the layer thumbnail. Then click on the channels tab which is next to the layers tab. Now click on the "Save selection as channel" button shown bellow:

This will create an alpha channel with the brush shape. Deselect the star (ctrl+d) and goto Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian blur and increase radius until the distorsion isn't clear. I put it as 27px:

After that we will adjust the levels so the blur is sharpened and the star comes out clean. Open the levels window by ctrl+L and play with the 3 arrows (black, grey and white) until you get a clear and undistorted shape of the star.

Now select the alpha channel by ctrl and clicking on the thumb nail and then go back to the layers tab. Create a new layer and fill the selection with a color. You will get a good high resolution shape of the star with almost no distortion visible...

Here are the before and after close ups:

  

I hope you enjoyed and learned something from this tutorial.

If you need any help or want to give comments and suggestions, you can contact me here.

Peace...

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