Brushes

JH_Spit · #1 (**permalink**) 29th December 2005, 12:41

Some tutorials use flower brushes, in photoshop there is only one leaf.. and that dont make the effect i want to have... i tried to do a pair of brushes with flower themes but they arent good, where can i find brushes with flower themes that have more than one opacity?

Serval · #2 (**permalink**) 29th December 2005, 12:58

Do you mean this tutorial?
http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/foru...ticle&artid=28

I think Adlabs used photographs you make those brushes himself.

Have you discovered that you can also load other sets of brushes? There are quite a lot more...

You can see how that works here:
http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/foru...ticle&artid=15

JH_Spit · #3 (**permalink**) 29th December 2005, 14:34

yep i knew that.. another thing when i want to save a skin on photoshop like a BMP it only let me put it on 24 16.. bits but no 8 what can i do?

Serval · #4 (**permalink**) 29th December 2005, 18:51

Best is to use the Bright plug-in (See tools section and then look for Plug-in since originally bright is a seperate program).

After placing it in you Plug-in folder and starting Photoshop you should find Bright under File - Export.

If you want to save the BMP as 8 bit, you need to convert the image to Indexed color with Image - Mode
But that will give lower quality.

adlabs6 · #5 (**permalink**) 29th December 2005, 19:33

Hi there,

Those flowers were defaults built into my Photoshop Elements version. As they are default I'm not sure they can be exported from the program. I'll also check to see if there is a way to make such a brush manually.

JH_Spit · #6 (**permalink**) 29th December 2005, 20:39

thx both, adlab I've got photoshop CS2 what is the difference between it and the element?

adlabs6 · #7 (**permalink**) 2nd January 2006, 07:28

Ok, I did some checking. The flower brush I used is built into Photoshop Elements. I'll outline where I found it in a moment. The difference between CS2 and Elements... Elements is a basic low cost version with some features and tools missing, while CS2 is the full package with all tools.

Ok, the brush I used, you can try to find it on CS2. It's a "brush" tool, in the "special effect brushes" drop down category on the brush properties toolbar. I attached a pic of these toolbars (they may be in different places, as I've edited my toolbar layout). Check out the default brush collections in those dropdowns to see if something there will work.

Aero_Shodanjo · #8 (**permalink**) 2nd January 2006, 16:46

Isnt it a way to create your own brush shape? I think ive done it by accident some month ago but im not sure...

adlabs6 · #9 (**permalink**) 2nd January 2006, 21:49

Oh yes, making a brush is easy. Drag a selection marquee around an image area, and click "Edit:Define Brush". This image will then be a brush tip you can select. Also useful, and perhaps in JH_Spit's case as well, is the pattern stamp tool. You can define patterns in the same way as brushes, too (Edit:Define Pattern).

Snake · #10 (**permalink**) 31st January 2006, 16:36

Try Corel Paiinter essentials 3
it has flower brushes and you can adjust the opacity.
I just ordered it but you can get the 30 day demo from corels site.

Charlie