create your own brush in photoshop

You have seen that people are using awesome and stylish brushes in Photoshop now a days. You yourself can easily create your own brush by just following these simple steps.
What you need to do is, choose any of the image you want as a brush. 
Now follow these steps: 

Here I am choosing a sunflower image.

Step1: Remove background of the image through Magic wand tool.

Step2: Make this image gray scale(image>Grayscale). At this step also apply highest contrast(Image > Brightness/Contrast)

Step3: Go to edit>Define brush preset. 
Step4: Appropriate name for your brush.
Step5: Save and your brush is ready to use. You can change color, Opacity or size later.
You can even delete your brush by right click on that. 

You can use this brush now on any of your image with your own  style.

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