Tried a free blending brush preset pack last night and it saved me 2 hours on a portrait

I was messing with layer masks for ages before I downloaded this set from a DeviantArt link someone posted in a forum. Has anyone else found a brush pack that just clicked with their workflow right away?

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ivan21119d agoMost Upvoted

Wait, TWO HOURS? That's a huge chunk of time. I'm legit impressed you found something that shaved off that much work on a single portrait. I've been burned by too many brush packs that promise the world but end up being junk, so hearing one actually delivers is almost unbelievable to me. That DeviantArt link must have been a goldmine, those forums can be hit or miss sometimes.

johnfoster19d ago

Lol yeah that’s the dream right there when a preset just works. I grabbed a skin smoothing brush set once and it cut my retouching time in half. Pro tip though, try tweaking the opacity on those presets first - sometimes they come a little too strong out of the box.