Expert Tip

Symmetry Painting is a feature in the Photoshop Brush tool settings under the ‘butterfly’ icon. The Symmetry options include Vertical, Horizontal, Dual Axis, Diagonal, Wavy, Circle, Spiral, Parallel Lines and Radial. It can also be useful for drawing symmetrical shapes like faces, flowers or cars. Once enabled, you’ll see a box appear over your image divided into segments. When we paint in one of these, our brush strokes appear symmetrically in all the others. The Mandala setting works similarly, but also mirrors your brush strokes within each segment.