Archive for July, 2007

harry hotter

free photoshop brushes

Whether you build texture maps for 3D objects, paint digitally, or create designs, custom brushes come in handy to speed up your job and save you extra effort. I’m providing a list of free Photoshop brushes download sites that I enjoy using so that you can find them in one spot. The brushes will include custom textures to create realistic effects, stamps, objects, symbols, and so on. Please watch out for and obey copyright laws on usage.

Free Photoshop brushes:

• Some of Dave Nagel’s amazing brushes, I’m not sure where to find his previous series, anyone know?
• Photoshop Brushes
• PS Brushes (not free for commercial use)
• User created brushes on DeviantArt
• Brusheezy Each download comes with it’s own Terms of Use.
• Tutorial Blog
• DarkWaif
• In Obscuro
• Obsidian Dawn
• Miss M Paper Lilies
• Blinding Light
• 500ml
• Hawksmont
• by Vered

What do I do after downloading the brushes?

Close Photoshop. After downloading a file, it will either be a compressed file (like a .zip), or a .abr file (which is the photoshop format). Decompress the file if needed. Once you have the .abr file, place the file into your Photoshop brushes directory, which will be at /Applications/Adobe Photoshop/Presets/Brushes/ or /Applications/Adobe Photoshop/Presets/Brushes/Adobe Photoshop Only/ or C:Program FilesAdobeAdobe Photoshop CS2PresetsBrushesAdobe Photoshop Only.

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Open Photoshop. Click B on your keyboard to select your Brush Tool, or chose it from your Tools pallet.
1. Click the Brush Preset Picker at the top of your screen.
2. Then click the small arrow button pointing to the right to open your options.

You should see your newly downloaded brushes in this list, if not click on Load Brushes… find the file and hit Load.

Find the brushes in your list, click on one of them and click OK to replacing your current brushes with the new one. Now you can select the different brushes from your Presets and you’ll be good to go.

moon light

This is an unpublished cover for the book Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce, from the series called The Immortals.

I created book covers for this entire series and another one, called Emperor Mage, can be seen here.