How to paint in Photoshop using a mouse

Welcome to my very first tutorial in which I am going to show you how to do a nice looking paintings using just a mouse. Halloween is coming soon so let's paint a pumpkin:-)

Step 1 - The Outline

• Create an outline of the pumpkin in Illustrator (or use mine).
• Open up Photoshop and create a New Document with a white background.
• Put your outline into this new document (have both outline.ai and new document opened in Photoshop and drag and drop the outline into this new document with "move tool (v)").
• This should create a new layer. Name it outline, set blending to multiply and opacity to 60% - 70%.

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