Creating Custom Brushes in Photoshop

Here I was experimenting creating different brushes on Photoshop. I scanned in textures of ice and snowflakes and various other materials to see what effect they gave and how I could use them in my backgrounds. 

I began by opening up a picture in Photoshop; a picture of ice found online, shown here:

I then began erasing around the edges so that the brush wouldn’t resemble a square

 I then went to Edit > Define Brush settings

 And named my new brush appropriately.

This was the final result.

I did this with lots of other images and really liked the effect it gave.

 Here is what some of the brushes look like collaged together: