Graphicxtras.com - plug-ins, shapes, fonts, swatches, patterns, styles, gradients, brushes, symbols and more
Welcome to Graphicxtras.com: a great place to find royalty-free commercial use graphics designs and plug-ins and Photoshop shapes and brushes and gradients and styles for Photoshop ® CS5 CS4 CS3 CS2 CS1 7 6, Illustrator ® CS5 CS4 CS3 CS2 CS1 10, Paint Shop Pro ® X3 X2 X1 X 9 8, Painter ™, Photoshop Elements, QuarkXpress ®, Fireworks ™, Flash, decorative Fonts + EPS, Expression brush strokes, vector PDF artwork designs for Apple ® Pages / Microsoft ® Word, 3D applications and others, PC or MAC OS X. Tutorials, videos, manuals and more. Any questions, please e-mail us
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Terms of use for the presets and plugins
COMMERCIAL + personal use Use to create items for sale Royalty-free Unlimited time use All by graphicxtras.com No credit required
Examples of use for the designs / shapes / fonts etc
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Embellish scroll shapes for Photoshop Christmas holly brushes Photoshop Cats custom shapes for Photoshop |
Adobe Creative Suite 5
All the items on the graphicxtras.com work fine in the latest Adobe's Creative Suite, CS5. No updates required. Fonts, symbols, gradients, maps, swatches, styles, textures, graphics, custom shapes, brushes: all are OK in CS4 as well as CS5. To see all the Photoshop CS5 (as well as earlier items)
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There is a blog where you can add questions / comments etc about graphicxtras products as well as read a selection of notes about the products and new releases Graphicxtras blog
Search products by category
Instead of searching for the product by application use, you can see the items below by theme such as animals 'cats, dogs, etc' Not all the categories have the exact match of each type, so there might be a cat font but there are not cat custom shapes packs as yet Products by category
Themed sets
Tutorials for Photoshop, Illustrator, etc
The graphicxtras.com site has a selection of tutorials on how to use and install the custom shapes, brushes, plug-ins, styles, symbols, patterns etc. You can find the tutorials in two sections as well as on many of the product pages (generally at the bottom of the page). The tutorials are in many cases video tutorials with the videos on Youtube, along with basic screenprints displays and instruction tutorials.
Fonts
The font sets are all designs stored in standard true type font format (such as Times New Roman, Verdana, Arial etc). You can access the designs as you would A B C D E F G etc. The font designs are installed via the control panel or right click and select the install command on the PC; or load via the fontbook application on the MAC. Once installed, the font sets can be accessed via the type dropdown, just select the font. The font designs are all vectors so can be used to any size. The designs can be re-colored, warped and distorted, transformed, modified, combined and much more. Use to create millions and millions of different designs. The fonts can be used in many different applications such as Word, Apple Pages, Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Xara and others. The font designs also make a great replacements for use as Paint Shop Pro preset shapes. All the font sets also include the same designs in EPS format so you can import and open the designs also in Photoshop via the file > open command. The font designs can also be quickly converted and used as Paint Shop Pro brushes, Photoshop brushes and more. If you are looking for designs that can be used throughout most applications then the fonts sets are best ones to check out.
Custom shapes for Photoshop ® and Elements
Custom shapes are vector designs for use in Photoshop ® and Photoshop Elements. The shapes are stored in Photoshop shapes format CSH. Being vectors they can be used in any size of document. The shapes can be applied as layers, as selection / paths or just as fills. They can be combined in millions of different ways either as a group or using the pathfinder functionality. The vector designs can be edited, transformed using the Photoshop transforms, re-colored (use the current foreground to set the fill color), effects can be applied and a whole lot more. They are easy to use and load into Photoshop, simply use the file > open command on the CSH file and then select the shapes via the shapes tool. There are limits on the number of shapes can be loaded into the Photoshop shapes palette but this is fairly large now (was 500 designs with the earlier versions of Photoshop). In Photoshop Elements you can also use the custom shapes via the cookie cutter tool. Custom shapes can also be exported via paths or shapes layer to other applications such as Illustrator, or exported as a raster image to many other tools. The custom shapes can be used as a wonderful source for Photoshop brushes, Photoshop textures displacement maps, patterns and more. The custom shapes collection consists of 12,000 Photoshop shapes and that was the earlier accumulating of custom shapes, since the collection release, there have been approximately 120 additional Photoshop custom shapes packs released themes ranging from goth shapes, butterfly shapes, cat shapes and many more.
Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro plug-ins / filters / effects
Photoshop plugins are 8BF files. To install the plugins, simply add the plugin files to the plug-ins or plugins path of the host applications. The plugins on graphicxtras.com are only for the PC (windows 7, windows vista, windows XP). The 8BF plugins can be used in many different applications such as Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Photo-Paint and many others. The plugins are not filter factory files, they require no additional plugins or dlls to run. These plugins are from the developer of the Andrew's filters (the Andrew's filters ran to about 1000 or so filters) but the Andrew's plugins are far superior to the original plugins with millions and millions of possible color effects. The plugins all include a big preview screen, zoom features, presets, the plugins all can be used as Photoshop actions / scripting, the plugins all include 100 output options such as displaying the effect as a tile or as a frame designs or inverted + many other color effects options. The plugins also come with effects modes where the plugin effect is applied not as the actual effect but as a source for a blur or smear or paint effect, creating some truly unique blur and smear and paint effects in seconds. The plugins also include a selection of post processing effects such as adding a near infinite variety of gradient and color effects to the image. There are 180 plugins in the entire plugin series. The plugin effects can be applied repeatedly, used in different color channels, used in RGB or CMYK and LAB color modes and much more. With the latest versions of the plugins you can now combine the plugin effects in Photoshop actions to create a near infinite range of effects, so they can be combined with the native Photoshop effects.
Illustrator brushes notes
The brushes are for use in Illustrator CS5 CS4 CS3 CS2 CS1 10 (though some earlier packs also work with version 8 but 99% of the later sets are purely from 10 onwards). The Illustrator brushes are all accessed via the brushes palette (this can be found via the Illustrator window > brushes command. The brushes are all stored in Illustrator brushes format, loading them via the brushes palette (right side menu) opens the brush library, selecting the brushes adds them to the current opened document's own library. Once loaded into the document's brushes library the brushes can be then be modified such as changing the brushes tint, the direction of the brush, size, scattering, spaving: all of the settings depend on the type of brush. The brushes types in Illustrator are calligraphic, artistic / art, scatter, bristle and pattern. Bristle brush has been added with Illustrator CS5. The brushes can be applied to an existing selected path, they can be applied to text and then can be used as a brush stroke to create an independent Illustrator path. Brushes can also be used as a source for paths, simply by selecting the brush in the brushes palette and then dragging the brush to the artboard, the brush design can be expanded and used as a standard path: brushes can be easily updated by that approach and then dragging the path back into the brushes palette, though the settings have to be added to the brush (the path does not store the brush settings). Brushes can be complex or basic, they can be made up of a single element or multiple elements, some types of path cannot be stored as a brush such as a gradient (which is a pity as they would make really nice looking brush strokes). With CS5, you can also combine the art / artistic brush stroke with the width tool to create even more interesting brush strokes and as the width tool (via the toolbox) can further manipulate the brush stroke at any point in the creative process, the applied brush can be modified in many different ways. The color of the brush stroke is either the actual color of the brush stroke or the current color depending on the tint / shade settings of the brush. The size of the brush stroke depends on the stroke width / weight, if there is no stroke, then there will be no brush stroke. Brush strokes can be applied throughout the application, they can be exported to other applications and much more. You can at any point modify the brushes and save the brushes to a new brushes file or overwrite the existing brushes file, the brushes can be considered as a starting point for some truly stunning designs. The graphicxtras.com brushes can be used in millions of ways to create stunning designs, they are for commercial as well as personal use so you can use them to create items for sale.
Photoshop brushes / PSP brushes
The brushes sets now contain Photoshop and Photoshop Elements brushes (ABR format) and PNG format files (earlier sets only contain the brushes in ABR format) for use as brushes in Paint Shop Pro / Xara / Photo-Paint. The brushes are all stored at 300 DPI. They are mixed sizes. The brush designs can be used with most of the Photoshop brush tools such as art history, history brush, clone brush, blur tool, paint tool and others. The brushes are easy to use and load, simply access via the Photoshop file > open command and load all the brush designs into the Photoshop palette. Once there, the brushes can be modified, re-colored, used as frames, use as pattern stamps and more. The Photoshop brushes range from realistic brush effects such as ink blots and pencils to weird and wonderful abstract paint brush effects. You can modify the brush designs in millions of ways, combine, apply to layers and more
Photoshop patterns / PSP Patterns
The pattern sets now contain Photoshop and Photoshop Elements patterns (PAT format) as well as PNG format files for use as Paint Shop Pro or Xara patterns. The patterns files are all 300 DPI. The patterns can be used in the Photoshop fill command as well as fill layer command and also as brush textures. The patterns can also be used in the pattern stamp tool. The PNG format files can be added to the PSP patterns folder and then accessed via the PSP material palette. The Photoshop patterns can also be used as a great source for displacement maps, textures and glass distortions. The patterns can also be quickly converted to JPG or other file formats and then used in Painter and other applications. The Photoshop patterns can be used as layer and then combined using blending modes to create millions and millions of stunning designs.
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About Graphicxtras.com
Graphicxtras.com is a website for royalty-free content and exciting hi-impact plug-in effects. All the content has been created by graphicxtras.com (Andrew Buckle) for use in commercial as well as hobby designs. If you have any concerns or questions, please contact me. You can also call me on (UK +44) 1622 688 375. Privacy: details are not sent onto any third party. All purchases are via paypal (or shareit.com). This is the official source of all graphicxtras.com material, however, you can also purchase the items on a number of scrapbooking sites as well. Adobe, Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, Fireworks, Flash are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated; Corel, Painter, Photo-Paint, Paint Shop Pro, PhotoImpact, Corel are registered trademarks of Corel Incorporated
On purchase
Purchase via secure paypal. You will be sent a link to download the software. Please download the software / presets and make a backup to CD DVD etc. Any questions, issues with installation, please contact us for help
What can I do with the product?
Commercial use OK (as well as non-commercial and hobby). Use to create items for sale, use for books, leaflets, website designs, fashions, scrapbooking, in videos, on buttons, shoes, illustrations, parts of logos (some modification is required to create exclusivity), records, CDs, packaging, advertising and much more. You can use them to create millions of different graphics designs.