Comments on: Hair Strands Photoshop & GIMP Brushes

By: chrisandra

chrisandra — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:38:13 +0000

OMG i love you :D awesome brushes i’m very impressed

By: wielen

wielen — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:30:39 +0000

cool… love it

By: cnc

cnc — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:27:18 +0000

its usefull for a halthy hair in pictures

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:25:10 +0000

@Dan: I have no idea how GIMP does it. But in Photoshop, you can size the brush anywhere from 1 to 2500 pixels after you load it.

Sorry I couldn’t help more, but I’ve never used GIMP. :( Try some GIMP forums, perhaps? Maybe since these are Photoshop brushes (well, made in Photoshop, even though GIMP will allow you to use them), that’s causing the trouble. Not sure.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:43:07 +0000

Is there any way you can make the brushes smaller once downloaded? I tried gimp brush editor but it says the brush is read only

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:54:19 +0000

@ashly: That’s because you don’t use them by clicking on the file like you would with other things. You put them in the correct directory, then they’ll just be there when you open GIMP. I have instructions in my sidebar, under “Getting Started” where it says “Installing Brushes”. Good luck!

By: ashly

ashly — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:13:57 +0000

How do you unzip the files for gimp im using windows with office vista and i try and download when i do it and it opens gimp a message pops up saying it does not recognize or cannot open.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:06:10 +0000

@random: Are you unzipping the file? Are you putting it in the right directory? Are you restarting Photoshop so it will show up along with your other brushes? (You can also “Replace Brushes” and find the file directly, if you don’t want to restart Photoshop)

By: random

random — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:32:05 +0000

um i have photoshop adobe 7 and it aint working!

By: ichan

ichan — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:59:42 +0000

Life saver! Very nice hair brushes. This is really helpful. Thanks and kisses!

By: ard

ard — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:41:22 +0000

hey mate..thx a LOTTTTTT 4 d brush..it really help me a lot..thx!!luv ya!!

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:44:16 +0000

Some of these ARE faint, because they’re made from blonde hair. It’s more difficult to use these and get them to look right than to use others of my brushes, which is why I don’t make this “kind” of image-based brush much anymore. Check out my tutorial on “Removing Transparency from Brushes” – the technique used in this tutorial is basically what I used to make these brushes look a bit more real in the preview.

Good luck!

BTW, if you want hair brushes that are all made from darker hair (and therefore make darker brushes) check out my “Hair Strands” set instead of this one. (Whoops, said this in an email before realizing that’s what page this was on, sorry!)

By: RockerJyl

RockerJyl — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:15:11 +0000

h3y stephanie….

I downloaded these brushes, but when I tried using them they seemed really faint, I created another layer but it’s still the same…. any suggestions on fixing this…. I didn’t have any problems with any other brushes….

By: Azany

Azany — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:52:05 +0000

i love youuuuuuuu…thxxxxxx

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:05:12 +0000

@Ellaarh: Nope, I’m afraid not. Not as they come. However, I have “image packs” available for all of my downloads, which are just JPGs that I used to make the brushes. You could download those and make them into brushes in your PSP program, and use them that way. Hope this helps!