Comments on: Installing Photoshop Brushes (& GIMP!) Tutorial

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:56:20 +0000

@Daniel: I’m not sure about Elements. But if you check out my tutorial on advanced brush techniques (under the tutorials section), it explains how to rotate, flip, etc. It may be similar for Elements, hopefully?

Glad you’re enjoying em!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:03:06 +0000

Found your site and love it. I do fancy woodburning art to give away for wedding presents etc. and often create my own patterns by combining several different pictures. The brushes work very well for add in’s and customizing pics. Just one question – is there an easy way to flip the brush – right to left – so I’m looking at the back side. Its got to be there somewhere but I haven’t found it yet. Elements 8

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:20:03 +0000

@Hello: Just to make sure I understand what you’re saying… You’re using them on an image, and it’s working alright – but then when you go to try to save that image, it’s not saving? That is a very odd problem, indeed. Are you trying to save it over the other file? There may be an issue with permissions, if that’s the case. I can’t think of any reason why Photoshop wouldn’t save it properly other than permissions, and that’s an Operating System thing, really. Try saving it as a fresh, new file on your desktop (so you’re sure it’s the right file, too – sometimes you may be saving it in one place and trying to open it from another on accident). If that doesn’t do it for you, I’m not sure at all what could be going on, sorry. :(

Hopefully this helps!

By: Hello

Hello — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:14:38 +0000

I have photoshop 7. the brushes work fine. its when I save the picture with the brush effects it does not save. I tried using the original brushes and it does not save either. Would anyone have an idea on how to fix this?

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:40:37 +0000

@Unknowen: Could you tell me more precisely what is going wrong? And what version of Photoshop you’re using? Where are you having trouble? You can unzip the file, put it into the folder alright, and then it won’t show up amidst your list of brushes? Or what?

An alternate way of loading them is to choose “Replace Brushes” from that same brush selection menu, and then navigate to where this file is (wherever it is, it doesn’t need to be anywhere special to load them this way), and it’ll open it that way. If it’s failing when you try to do that, you either didn’t unzip the file properly or you don’t have the right version of Photoshop (7 or higher – this includes the CS’s – with regular Photoshop, 2 or higher with Elements)

By: Unknowen

Unknowen — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:35:08 +0000

Sorry but it doesn’t help, I tried doing it step by step but the brush set doesn’t want to download onto my program erm*

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:49:49 +0000

@Unknowen: You shouldn’t be trying to OPEN the file. You should be EXTRACTING the file, and place it (like it says above in more detail) into your Photoshop > Presets > Brushes folder. Then, you open Photoshop and load it from there. You do NOT click on the file to open it directly.

Hope this helps!

By: Unknowen

Unknowen — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:34:25 +0000

So, I clicked on the download button to install the paints — Next step comes up as downloads file but when I open the download, I get the WinRAR (evaluation copy) pop up. Now, if I want to open up the file with adobe photoshop cs3 directly .. I get an error of “Could not complete your request because it’s not the right kind of document.” Any tips? I had no troubles downloading your cloud paint brushes but that was months ago and I have forgotten the steps I took.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:18:12 +0000

@rico: Yep! You can either move the files into and out of your folders from your USB drive OR you can choose “Load Brushes” or “Replace Brushes” from the brushes selection screen instead of choosing a set. It’ll ask you to “Browse” and find the file, so browse to your USB and load them from there. That’s it!

By: rico

rico — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:10:55 +0000

it is possible to save the brushes designs thru my usb then transfer it to my adobe photoshop.bcoz i dont have internet at home.pls reply.tnx.

By: Samatha

Samatha — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:35:37 +0000

Thank you so much for publishing this :) I just got Photoshop and am very happy with the outcome of my work, but was looking to improve, when my friend suggested to download some new brushes, I went through a heck of a lot of tutorials before find this and it all cleared up :)

Thank you so much, I am sure to visit this site again.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:03:47 +0000

@Jennifer: You’re unzipping it and then trying to read it with Adobe Reader, or GIMP? You don’t need Adobe Reader at all to use these with GIMP, you just unzip the file using an extraction program and then put them in the right folder for GIMP. Voila!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:48:42 +0000

ok so i have gimp and it is not working i put on the file unzip it try to install and the adobe reader says its is damaged or not correctly decoded what do i do??, Jennifer

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:11:16 +0000

@fizz: If you’re able to view the brushes on your destop, sounds like perhaps you downloaded the image pack rather than the brushes? The image pack is a folder made up of JPGs. The brushes are an .ABR file, which should be placed into your Photoshop > Presets > Brushes folder, and which will then (AFTER A RESTART, IF PHOTOSHOP WAS OPEN) just show up amidst your other brushes.

Hope this helps, and if not, let me know where the trouble is precisely so I can help.

By: fizz

fizz — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:29:14 +0000

I’ve downloaded the brushes but i cant get them on Adobe PS CS3! I can view them on the desktop without any problem and file is unzipped but when im trying to load them onto the program nothing comes up…plzzzzz help!!!!!!!