Today I thought I’d show you the fastest possible way to color the brush. (I also thought I’d give you some shortcut hints along the way.)

So, after placing the brush onto a new, transparent layer (Hint: Ctrl (On MAc: Command)+Shift+N to create new layer):

1. 1. Lock transparency for that layer (Hint: Press “/“(slash) to lock transparency)
2. 2. Select the desired foreground color
3. 3. Hit Alt (On Mac: Option)+Backspace to color the brushes with Foreground color.

Voila!

P.S.
Another hint to reset the foreground and background colors press D and to swap them press X.

So, having this in mind I thought I’d make a compilation of brushes that contributes to this philosophy.

I bundled 4 of my Photoshop Brushes sets:

1. Hearts Photoshop Brushes Set, 32 brushes, $9.99 | [preview]
2. Swirls Floral Photoshop Brushes Set, 42 brushes, $9.99 | [preview]
3. Swirled Frames Photoshop Brushes Set, 18 brushes, $9.99 | [preview]
4. Swirled Corners Photoshop Brushes Set, 20 brushes, $9.99 | [preview]

and I added one more set to the bunch:

5. Designs Photoshop Brushes Set, 30 brushes, $9.99 | [preview]

and this made one huge set of 142 brushes that I decided to call “Wedding Brushes”.

I thought how handy could those be for a photographer or designer who’s involved in wedding occasions.

And then I got inspired for more brushes! Sat down and created 16 more of them. And they turned out well. Was very very pleased. See them new Floral Photoshop brushes here.

And I added the new 16 Floral PS Brushes to the bundle. Now, it’s really huge package. 158 of them. (You can see them all by clicking on all those [preview] links up there.) See if you like them.

If you do like them, buy them. I sell the whole 158 Wedding Brushes package for $39.99. After getting this package - I don’t think you’ll need a new swirl or flower or heart or corner or similar shape shape any time soon.

If you like them but can’t afford, send me an email and we’ll work something out. I know how is it to be a struggling artist. I see one every morning in the mirror.

P.S.
No need to mention that all of them are compatible with Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2 and CS3.

So, I did some research and it came as no surprise to learn that designs with swirls are making a blast on the market. It is no secret, this is the age of Swirls! Swirls rule the empire of graphic designs, from web to print, from commercials to scrapbooks. And we ain’t seein’ no end to it’s rule anywhere near!

So, to honor the swirls I made a package that contains:

1.Swirls Floral Photoshop Brushes Set, (42 brushes) | [preview]

2. Swirls 2, Photoshop Brushes Set (36 brushes) | [preview]

3. Outlined Swirls Photoshop Brushes Set, (23 brushes)
| [preview]

This makes a total of 101 Hi-Res Photoshop Swirls Brushes, ($29,97 value) and it’s on sale now for only $23,97. Buy it here –>

Why? Because swirls rule! We all know that.

Get them now, and have fun creating!

Love,

Silvia

Look at this beauty!

… click here for the preview (just to make sure they’re really that beautiful), and here’s the .abr free Swirls and Circles Photoshop brushes set download link. For the next 5 (five) days you won’t even have to sign up for my sooper-dooper and totally cool commercial-free newsletter, in order to download it.

Still, if you think you could make a use of 40+ totally free hi-res Photoshop brushes Subscribe now and get ‘em! (Currently there are exactly 48 of them AND I’m adding more regularly) totally free Photoshop brushes sets that are compatible with Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2 and CS3. And not only with Photoshop, they’re also compatible with Photoshop Elements, PaintShop Pro.

P.S.
And please, please, don’t let those free downloads stop you from taking a peek at some really serious sets: PREMIUM PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES, those will really help you with your graphics needs - especially if you’re a pro.

While waiting for new free Phooshop brush let’s just remind ourselves about 6 most important keyboard shortcuts for brushes in Photoshop and these would be:

1. 1. “B” to select Brush tool on the main Toolbar
2. 2. “F5″ to bring up Brushes Palette
3. 3. “[” to decrease the Brush size
4. 4. “]” to increase the Brush size
5. 5. “,” to move to the previous brush in Brushes palette
6. 6. “.” to move to the next brush in Bushes palette

For next time we are preparing a cool video tutorial about saving Photoshop brushes settings where we’re also giving some more useful hints and tips so - stay tuned and have fun creating!

Had some issues on naming it… that was difficult. I knew I wanted the name to contain the word “light” but what light? Sparkling light? Dancing light … not bad but … not exactly what I was looking for.

And then it occurred to me: Lightworks! Sounds familiar, as if I heard that word somewhere … but it doesn’t matter. Now the name of the newborn brush is: Lightworks!

Here is one sample on what can be done with it:

• You can preview here LITE Lightworks PS brushes set and DOWNLOAD it right here (subscription-free next 5 days, as usually - over!)
• Or you can get the real thing, THE ULTIMATE Lightworks brushes set - 61 brushes! Yes! Sixty-one high quality (up to 2000px) Lightworks brushes for just $9.99
• And here is a little tutorial which will show you how to use them

PS: here’s another “Lightworks” graphic sample!

“Ooooh, you must be a new Swirl in town. Nice to meet you. I’m an Artist. Photoshop 7.0 Artist. Are we compatible?”

“But, of course. I’m compatible with you and all of your younger friends there, all the way to Photoshop CS3 Artist.” Swirl gives a brief look to the barmen “Martini, shaken, not stirred.”

This was the beginning of the beautiful friendship. Photoshop 7.0 invited all his younger friends and not just them, by the end of the night Paint Shop Pro Artist was there, Gimp artist and several scrapbooking enthusiasts were there – having a blast together, creating marvelous graphics, images and illustrations of all kinds. And they all lived together happily ever after.

Yes, that’s right, ladies and gentleman, tonight I proudly present you - Swirls, Outlined Swirls set! May you use it for your most prestigious works of art, your graphics, your illustrations, scrapbooks and all kinds of designs. You can even print them out as a wallpaper for your living room (that’s actually my plan, but for kitchen wall).

As usual, there is a free, LITE 4 brushes version for you to try it out (5 days subscription-free download - over!) and of-course, the full PREMIUM version, set of 23 brushes.

Enjoy! Have fun creating!

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.

I took me while to convert them all but it’s done now and you’re welcome to download them! (After the subscription to my Newsletter - where I only write about cool stuff, of course)

Last year, in summer, I started creating Photoshop brushes using Photoshop CS2, then I upgraded to Photoshop CS3 and didn’t even dreamed about how many of you would like (and love :)) to have my brushes… No, really.

After a few months, I received many questions about Photoshop 7.0 compatibility (I received one question for 6.0 version, but hey - that was a little bit too much for me). Somewhere, somehow I found in my old Photoshop 5.0 box, but then, this version had a serious brush size limitation, so I decided to go with Photoshop 7.0 as it allowed 2500px brush size.

Now, I’m happy to announce that my brushes will be added to “Digital Arts” June and July issue, and “Macworld” June issue! I didn’t expected such a great exposure and I’m overjoyed!

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We had technical issues with our WordPress blog, then we upgraded it to the latest 2.5 version, then we had some more technical issues - BUT it is all resolved now!!!! (Thank you Nickola from Siteground! You’ve been a great help and support in a tough times!)

So, we’re up and running again and it is my great pleasure to introduce our first guest writer:

Lauren from Creative Curio

Lauren has been in the graphic design industry since 2003 and currently runs Creative Curio, a graphic design focused blog. Scrapbooking has been her hobby since around the same time, and she loves this no-pressure creative outlet. Therefore, she didn’t think twice when we asked her if she would like to write about scrapbooking.

So, if you’d like to find out how was the scrapbook image above done check out  Scrapboking tutorial: Children in Spring –> by Lauren from Creative Curio.