Finally - after a long wait, new Photoshop brushes set is here! Space Flames!

I’ve been really busy (bee) for last few days working on some things off-line: did some scrapbooks, photo printing and resolving issues at some projects. Among all, I also had: sickness (2x), visits to three emergency hospitals and three (live!) meetings with three different clients. Not to mention one birthday, one marriage celebration and springtime planting!

What a week!

On the top of it all, I’m still waiting for the shopping cart to get ready and starting to worry about it because now it’s thirteenth day of the no-shop period. But, since I’m an coding idiot I have to rely on others. And that’s always a tricky for me, because I get stressed out very easily.

I’ll try not to write about it, ‘cos I do not want to weep here.

So, here it is - the free set of Space Flames Photoshop brushes, 6 of them in this LITE edition (brushes are compatible with Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2 and CS3)

You can preview them here and download them HERE :)

Using those brushes you will be able to create effects like this:

Enjoy,
Silvia

P.S.

No, you don’t have to subscribe to my newsletter in order to get this brush for free. At least not for next 5 days. Subscription free download ended! But, I’d still recommend the subscription. Not only because I only write about cool graphics related stuff, but also because I do it in a funny way ;-) Not to mention that it will give you access to another bunch of some 40+ free of my Photoshop brushes.

Hello you Photoshop junkies! I don’t know about you but I haven’t slept much last night. And here is the reason why.

I was making a brand new, yet unseen, absolutely fresh Photohop brushes set that I named: Circled hearts.

As usual they come in two editions:

1. LITE Circled Hearts Photoshop brushes set edition, 6 brushes in a set (available in 2 sizes! Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2 and CS3 compatible.) Subscription-free download will be available for the next 5 days! - over!

2. PREMIUM Circled hearts Photoshop brushes edition - 40 brushes in a set (also available in 2 sizes! Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2 and CS3 compatible.)

PayPal and Credit Card payments accepted!

As usual, next thing you know, I’ll present some new graphics and tutorials based on this new Photoshop brushes set!

Slogan of the day: Don’t watch TV. Create!

Hello everyone and Happy Easter!

For today I have prepared another tutorial on how to create your own brush.

This time it is about creating fractal Photoshop brushes.

I am sure many of you will like this kind of graphics:

But, if you are a beginner you probably assume that it’s extremely difficult, first, create your own custom brush and then create such graphic with it.

Well, it’s not! And I intend to show you how to do it in this tutorial.

So, for starters, to follow this tutorial you will need to have CorelDRAW! or Adobe Illustrator or some other software that does vector graphics. First, we will create a shape in CorelDRAW!, then export it to .EPS file, import to Photoshop and make a brush out of it. And that’s it!

So, let’s start CorelDRAW! and make a nice curved line using Bezier Tool:

Then, duplicate this line by dragging it and right-clicking the mouse on a new location:

Then select both line and go to Effects->Blend, Apply (you can leave all settings as they are)

Modify and adjust the shape by selecting various curves from top or bottom line and moving it around until you are happy with the shape.

I must say, I was quite happy with this one :)

So, basically, our work here at CorelDRAW! is over. Now, when I think, maybe I should have used Illustrator, but let’s leave it for another occasion.

The last thing that is to be done here in CorelDRAW! is to export that shape in to .eps file. Go to File->Export-> On the pull down menu select “.eps”, give it some name, leave “Selected only” switched on and click Export:

Click ok and save it.

Now, let’s move onto Photoshop. Here I used Photoshop CS3 but you can use any version from Photoshop 7.0 onward.

In Photoshop go to File->New, Give it dimensions 2500px by 2500px (that is the largest brush size you can get) at 300px (it has to be big so that it can be used for large format printing as well, not just web).

Now, go to File -> Place, browse to our .eps file and place it into this new Photoshop file. Make sure to stretch it before hitting enter so that it is stretched from end to end like this:

Fine! We’re getting there, bare with me just a few more minutes :)

As you have probably noticed the .eps we placed onto our new Photoshop file is not really black as it should be. This can cause this brush to appear transparent when used in the future and therefore we need to make sure that our future brush is really black. Therefore, make sure you selected the layer with our shape and go to Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Curves and to the following:

Now, our future brush will be black!

So, after this we are ready to finish and create our first, custom made, Photoshop brush. Go to Edit -> Define Brush Preset and give it a name:

It will automatically appear as the last one on your present brushes list.

That’s it! Voila! Congratulations! You just made your own brush! Now, if you want to save it as an independent .abr file you will need to delete all brushes from your brushes list because otherwise your .abr (brush file) will contain all brushes from the list. So, after you deleted all other brushes except for the one you just created

Now, you just go to save brushes, give it a name and save it to:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Presets\Brushes

And, now that’s really the end.

Now with a little playing with brush settings and Filter -> Render -> Lens Flare in no time you can create image like the one on the top of this post.

Look, in case you don’t want to go through all this and think that the trouble of creating some 29 fractal brushes is worth $9,99 - I’ll be much obliged if you go and buy the whole 29 Fractal Brushes Set.

Brushes are ready to download in two editions:

Lite edition: Fractals - set of 3 Photoshop brushes (Photoshop CS3 compatible - Subscribe and Download for Free)

Premium edition: Fractals - set of 29 Photoshop brushes (Photoshop CS3 compatible)

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Happy creating!