Butterflies -n- Trails Photoshop & GIMP Brushes

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

Download the image pack (for those without Photoshop & GIMP)

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!