Brushes sampler 1

BRUSHES SAMPLER

Brushes are (c) 2000-2010 Andrew Buckle All the brushes packs and collection referenced in this sampler (as well as tutorials) can be found on http://www.graphicxtras.com. The brushes collection is a collection of 10,000+ brushes. The brushes packs are themed sets of brushes (as of this time, 59 sets of brushes are available) The brushes are for use in Photoshop (R) and Photoshop (R) Elements PC and MAC OS X. Also many of the themed sets also include bonus eps designs (vectors) as well as PNG files for use in other applications

Brushes collection includes many different types of brushes, many of the brushes are abstract designs but the collection also includes realistic brush strokes such as graphite, ink pen, pencils, markers and more.

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The brushes collection includes many realistic brushes: this being a permanent marker pen. The brushes can be set to a particular color via the Photoshop or Photoshop Elements toolbox. Set via the foreground color. In the case above: red and purple marker.

The brushes are loaded and replaced in Photoshop via the brushes palette If you have placed the brushes (ABR file) in the presets ‘brushes’ folder path then you will be able to access them via the list at the bottom of the menu (see the GX42_Candles1_001 set). If you change your mind, you can always return to the default set of brushes via the reset brushes command. Select the brush and then apply

The brushes collection includes also many different grid brushes designs.

These can be applied as a dab, or perhaps multiple dabs, combined with other design elements and much more

Many different grid designs are included in the brushes collection set. The brushes are all stored in ABR files and can be accessed via all the brushes tools

The hearts 3 pack includes many different hearts designs including embossed hearts designs, embellish designs, shadow hearts and many more.

Crosses pack 1 contains crosses, plus signs, circular designs, 3D designs and a variety of crosses.

The brushes are accessed via the Photoshop toolbox. Select the brush icon and then apply the brush. There are also other brush tools on the toolbox such as blur tool, smear tool, clone, art history, history tool and others.

The cats 1 brushes pack includes a variety of cat poses. Poses being the right term as the brushes are all renders from Poser 8. The cats include unusual cats, walking cats, licking cats, hungry cats and many more.

The brushes packs include many different festive / Christmas related sets. The items above show the brushes from the buables 1 pack. Many different designs of Christmas baubles are included in the set

The example above comes from the overlays 1 brush pack from graphicxtras.com The overlays are pattern like brushes but as they are not seamless, I really couldn’t call them patterns. The brush has been applied to a layer and the layer has had a layer effect applied. The brush takes on the layer effect, though as with all layer effects, a little layer scaling via the layers menu was required as the default apply resulted in a totally black design.

Connections brushes pack includes many different types of connections designs / brain designs / tree designs. The brushes include many intense designs.

The brushes packs include many different rosettes brushes packs, the brushes displayed above are from the rosettes 4 pack.

Brushes from the rosettes pack 2. The brushes pack includes a lot more rosettes brushes than the designs displayed above.

Festive 3 brushes pack includes teddy bears, trees, bauble brushes, bottle brushes.. many of the things associated with Xmas (ok, minus a few things like a games console, religious, etc)

Borders 1 brushes pack. Many different frame brushes are included in the set

Many different polka dot designs are included in the polka dots 1 brushes pack.

The brushes can be applied as is but you can modify the brushes in 100s of different ways. You can set the brush’s scattering, spacing, color, opacity and much more. You can also add a texture to the brush as well as modify the application of the brush using another brush via dual brushes

Spirals pack 2 - many different spiral designs are included in the set

X Brushes pack includes many different diagonal X brush designs.

Angels brushes pack.

Polygon brushes pack includes many hexagon designs, triangular brushes and many more

Letters brush pack includes many different letter designs including antique designs and more

The brushes are a wonderful tool for creating quick frame designs. The above frame was created using the O letter brush stroke from the letters brushes pack. The brushes can be applied in a controlled or distressed / rough manner to create 1000s of different frame designs. These can also be exported to various frame plugins (or use as a mask)

Threads brushes pack includes many different weave designs.

Greek ornament brushes pack includes many different ornament divider designs.

The brushes (in this case, Greek ornament set) can be used to create designs for use as displacement maps. Save the design as a PSD file and then use the distort > glass command in Photoshop to load the map design into Photoshop. Text and images can be distorted and warped in 1000s of ways using the brushes.

The butterflies pack set includes many different butterfly brushes. Great for scrapbooking designs and more

The brushes packs include many different embellishment / flourish brushes sets The brushes above are from the embellish 7 brushes set

Strange brushes pack. All the brushes included in this set are pretty abstract and weird, tentacles, Lovecraftian-sort of creations and much more All the brushes in the set were created using an excellent 3D tool called Groboto.

More brushes from the strange brushes pack

Radial pack 2 brushes. The set includes many science fiction radial brush designs as well as star designs, emboss designs

Diamond brushes pack

More embellish brush designs from embellish 5 pack. The brushes in this set include many art nouveau designs

The brushes so far in this document have been applied with the normal blending mode but you can always set the brush to a different blending mode such as lighten, darken, difference etc. The brush stroke can also have the opacity lowered to create many different interesting brush strokes Brush used here is from the Embellish 5 pack

Brushes from the stars 1 brushes pack includes many different star designs such as gradient stars, inverted star designs

The antique brushes pack includes many scans from a 1753 play called Sophonisba (a play by Nathanael Lee) Quite a decent play as well, though sadly copies of it are fairly hard to find.

The antique brushes are used here in different color channels. Go to the color channel palette and set the red channel to active and then apply the brush stroke, then the green and so on. You can also use the brushes in different color modes such as CMYK,

Many different types of flower brushes are included in the flowers brushes pack

3D Spheres brushes pack

Spirals brushes pack 1

Many different types of flames are included in the flames brushes pack. Combine flames for millions of different types of flames effect

Embellish 1 brushes pack. many different types of scroll and flourish designs are included in the set

The brush designs can be used also in Photoshop extended which includes many different 3D tools. The brushes can be applied to a 3D layer and turned into a cone, sphere etc

Brushes from the distress brushes pack. The brushes can be applied as is but after applying the brushes (or in between) you can always apply various effects such as stained glass filter, KPT effects, blurs, Eye Candy effects and much more. Use to create zillions of different distress effects

Brushes from the ink brushes pack

Brushes from the wavy line brushes pack

Brush from the lines brushes pack

Brush strokes applied using a ‘realistic’ line brush in the lines brushes pack