- 10000 Stunning brushes for Photoshop ®
- Royalty-free, commercial and hobby work
- All created by graphicxtras.com
- Brushes collection includes basic brushes, dots brushes, splatter brushes, pencil brushes, ink brushes, realistic brushes, abstract brushes, grunge brushes, distressed brushes, arrow brushes, rough brushes, scratchy brushes, wispy brushes, 3D brushes, curved brushes, noise brushes, torn brushes, tangled brushes, blurry brushes and many more brushes for Photoshop ®
- For most Photoshop ® brush tools:paint tool, impressionist brush tool, pattern brush tool, history brush, dodge brush, burn, blur and other Photoshop brush tools
- Bonus: Custom shapes + patterns for Photoshop
1) Native format ABR Brushes for Photoshop ®. Brushes are stored in native ABR format, version 6
2) Cross platform. The brushes are totally cross platform and can be used across platforms, PC or MAC OS X.
3) Hi-rez. The brushes are hi-rez brushes, ranging from 200 x 200 up to 1000 x 1000 in most cases. 
4) Re-combine brushes and create. Combine the brush strokes and define a new brush
5) Brushes used in most brush tools. Dodge, art history, blur, smear, paint, history, clone... all can use the brushes
6) Brush palette. The brush palette allows the brushes to be scattered, opacity applied, texture applied, color...
7) Brush size. The Photoshop brush sizes vary depending on the set. Change the brush sizes via the brushes palette.
8) Textures. Use the brush dabs to create stunning texture designs in Photoshop ®
9) Blending modes. Use the brushes with different blending modes such as difference or multiply to create stunning designs
10) Impressionist. Use the art history or impressionist brush to create stunning painted / impressionistic paintings
11) Packaging. Use brushes to create any type of packaging, brushes useful with new CS3 Extended 3D features
12) Create custom shapes. Apply brush dab, select brush dab. Create work path from selection, define path as custom shape 
13) Patterns. Use the brushes to create patterns or displacement maps and use the patterns etc for textures / glass etc
14) Use brushes with styles. Create layer, apply style. Applying brushes will take on selected style appearance
15) Apply brushes to channels. Apply to the red channel then the green and then the blue or separate LAB or CMYK channels
16) Use brushes in different color modes. Use the brushes in CMYK LAB and other color modes as well as RGB
17. Opacity and brushes. Set the opacity of the brushes to a lower value to create interesting color and blurring effects
18. Use. Use for brushes for the creation of t-shirts, use for fashions, layouts, backgrounds, paint effects, smudging imagery, unique blur designs...
19. Installation of brushes. For Photoshop ®, the brushes files can be placed in any folder (local to Photoshop is best) but for Photoshop Elements, the brushes should be located in the presets brushes folder. The brushes format is ABR. The brushes can then be accessed via the brushes palette in Photoshop or the preset manager. You can also load the brushes in later versions of Photoshop via the file > open command.
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Tutorial 1 ] Brush stroke frame
1) Select inner region of image
2) Selection menu and invert selection
3) Select brush tool and go to the brush palette and set the color dynamics ON
4) Set hue jitter to 50%
5) set color to red via the Photoshop toolbox
6) Apply Photoshop brush to selected region (the inverted outer selection)
7) Apply brush stroke throughout region, the hue setting will change the hue of the brush from red to green to yellow and so on
8) Copy and paste selected region
9) Layer > Layer style > Drop shadow and offset the shadow
Instant frame. The PSD file can be saved, saving the frame means the frame can be used in a future project. There is no image portfolio in Photoshop so saving the file to a PSD is currently the easiest was to access the frame design at a later time.
Tutorial 2 ] Brush stroke / star field (or xmas tree scene!)
1) Set the current image to black via fill
2) Select the Photoshop paint brush tool. Select one of the star brushes included in the collection (one with multiple stars and different sizes of stars) set the color of the brush to white via the toolbox
3) Set the size of the brush to 500 (the default size is approx 150 for the selected brush, though these vary from brush to brush). The size of the brush is fairly huge against the source so the end result is fairly jagged . Apply the brush to the image
4) Apply a gaussian blur via the filter menu. Set the gaussian blur to 6 or 7 or something that makes the painted stars very blurry. This should remove the jaggedness of the stars
5) Change the color of the star brush via the tool: change to yellow / white
6) Set the brush size via the Photoshop brush palette to about 250 or half of the previous size and apply the brush in a few places on the image
7) Apply a gaussian blur but this time reduce that by half to about 3. This still applies a blur but only a slight blur to the star. This can also be done on different layers so the star effects can be modify at a later point instead of blending the stars into a single blur
8) Re-apply setting the brush tool to more yellow than white. This time the brush size is the default size of approximately 150 px. Apply to different parts of the image.
The brushes collection comes with many stars sets and different types of star fields so you can create many different star designs. Also, the stars can be applied with different colors such as blue or light blue, depending on the star.
