A set of Photoshop & GIMP brushes composed of various butterflies and swirly dots to make up their flight trails. Most of them are vector shapes. Includes 17 butterfly shapes and 9 of the swirly trails. These average around 1000 pixels high/wide.
Programs: Photoshop 7+, Photoshop Elements 2+, Gimp 2.2.6+
Brushes: 26
Size: 1.67MB
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Random Photoshop Brushes Tip: Ever wonder how people make a brush “fade out” as the stroke continues? Almost like real paint would? Here’s a quick tip on how to do just that.
Select a basic, round brush with your brush preset picker. About 15 pixels or so would be a good size. Now, click on the “Brushes” tab on the upper right of your Photoshop working space (or hit F5).
Click on “Shape Dynamics.” Make sure that Size Jitter, Minimum Diameter, Angle Jitter, and Roundness Jitter are all at 0%. The controls after Angle Jitter and Roundness Jitter should also say “Off.”
Now, next to the Control under “Size Jitter”, click the small arrow on the right and select “Fade.”
In that small box to the right of it, put in a number. Say 50 or 100. Depending on how long your line is. This value is how many pixels out you want the line to go for before it fades out completely.
Now take that brush and paint on your canvas! You’ll see it “fade out” as it goes on. What it’s technically doing is become smaller and smaller until the brush size is 0px.
You can also make it actually fade out. Instead of (or in addition to) clicking on “Shape Dynamics,” click on “Other Dynamics” under the Brush tab menu.
Set everything to 0% and “off” as before. Under the Opacity Jitter slider, change the “Control” on that to “Fade.” Then in the small box to the right of it, put in a value like you did before. 50 or 100 pixels, something like that. This works the same way, but it will actually fade out instead of just getting smaller.
They each have their different uses, and also work great together!
22 Responses to “Butterflies -n- Trails Photoshop & GIMP Brushes”
I like this brushes very very much thanx sir……………..
lurve it! ^__^ nice nice
Thank you!
absolutely WONDERFUL!! Thank you so much for sharing!! :D
Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for the tip!
is that free?
@Juliana: It is free to use, but you must follow my terms of use: http://www.obsidiandawn.com/terms-of-use
really pretty! thanks so much for sharing :) i wish i can do something like these too.
Another treat…and thank you for the tip!
AWESOME images and brushes! Thank you so much for sharing them and the tut too! :) Have a GREAT day!!
Thanks for sharing the brushes <3 They’re so prettyyyyy~~~
How do you make it so you can use it on GIMP?
@Akane: They should work with GIMP as-is. You need to unzip them, of course, and here’s a tutorial that explains the installation (look at the bottom for GIMP): http://www.obsidiandawn.com/installing-photoshop-brushes-gimp-tutorial (It’s also in my sidebar)
wow your brushes are really famous throughout google search and Deviant art
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I love your website
thank you for letting other artists like me continue with their beautiful works using your brushes
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I downloaded this on a Windows the other day. I absolutely loved the brushes. I got home to my mac and tried to download, and all I get when I download it is a zip with one folder in it, in the folder it has 2 things. one is a text document explaining rules, and the other i don’t know what it is called, but it looks like a little grey screen. can someone please tell me how I can upload this onto my mac!?
@collin: It works exactly the same for a Mac as it does for a Windows PC. You need to unzip it, and within there should be a text file and an .ABR file. You put that ABR file into your Photoshop > Presets > Brushes folder, and then it’ll show up with your other brushes. That’s it, basically, but if you want more details, I have an “Installing Brushes” tutorial in my sidebar.
If you don’t have an ABR (brushes) file in there, then there may have been a corruption with the download or somesuch.
Hope this helps!
ah, well I am using GIMP. so I don’t have that folder. It was strange because at my dad’s I am almost certain I extracted a different file for each brush, like you usually would for gimp brushes. but when I got here, it was the file you just described. do you know how I can get those separate files again?
thank you for your time
@collin: Ahh, GIMP. Well, my tutorial explains how to install brushes in GIMP, as well.
What you downloaded last time was my “image pack”, and those aren’t brushes. They’re just JPGs, which you were perhaps using to then MAKE into brushes.
However, if you would learn how to install brush SETS, you wouldn’t keep needing to do all that work on your own. These brushes will work in both Photoshop & GIMP, on both Windows & a Mac. And in the brush file, they’re all already made into brushes for you. Check out that link in my sidebar that explains how to install Photoshop brushes in GIMP, and it should save you some time. :)
If you still end up having trouble with it, just download the image pack again, and that’ll give you the JPGs.
Hey! It worked! Thank you so much for your help!
OD you R-O-C-K! Your brushes are the best on the web. Thanks for sharing!
Awesome brushes! Helped me so much with my latest Manip!!
:)
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