Watch the VIDEO version of this tutorial right here: Video Tutorial: Loading and using a brush using PSE/PS
Learn how to turn a .png file into a brush right here: Tutorial: Turning a png file into a brush |
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{figure 1} Click on the brush tool in the toolbox or B for the keyboard shortcut. (PS Elements Users: be sure that the regular brush is selected in the options bar. Photoshop users: the brush may be hiding behind the pencil tool, if so- just click the tiny black arrow to reveal it.)
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{figure 2a} Click on the down arrow in the options bar.
Click on the right arrow to view the flyout menu; choose Load Brushes. (Photoshop users: choose Replace Brushes- otherwise brushes will just be added to current brush library.)
{figure 2b} Navigate to where your brush is saved.
Select the brush library that you wish to load; click load.
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{figure 3a} Select the brush that you wish to use (in this case there is only one in this library).
{figure 3b} With your layout already open, click on the "Create a new layer" icon in the layers palette. ( In Photoshop Elements this icon is at the top of the layers palette, in Photoshop it is at the bottom.)
{figure 3c} Click once on your layout to use your brush as a stamp. Use the left and right bracket keys on your keyboard to resize the brush smaller or bigger.
***Note***
You will want to create a new layer every time you "stamp" a brush so that each of them may be moved independently of the others later on.
{figure 3d} To change the color of a brush, click on the foreground color in the toolbox.
{figure 3e} Choose a color; click OK.
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Have fun!!!
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