Digital painting pioneer John Derry makes & sells excellent Artists’ Brushes & Dry Media brushes for Photoshop, and you already can get some of them for free: go to the Tool Presets panel in Photoshop CS6 and load up “Airbrushes” and ”Mixer Brush Pencil.”  (There, I just doubled the number of people who know about these hidden gems!)

 

Somehow brushing features always remain kind of obscure, but in a bid to change that John has just released the new Lynda.com title Photoshop CS6 New Features: Brushes.  Here’s a sample in which he covers the brush types (Angle, Fan, etc.) that Photoshop now enables.