A set of Photoshop & GIMP brushes composed of various swirl “parts.” While pretty on their own, and very swirly… this set is made to be used to make your own swirl designs! They are high resolution, with the average size being about 1800 pixels.
Some are just one small swirl, while others are a bit more elaborate. I’ve used these for a while to help make my own swirl designs for several sets.
Programs: Photoshop 7+, Photoshop Elements 2+, Gimp 2.2.6+
Brushes: 26
Size: 1.87MB
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Brushes Tip:
To make the most of these brushes, you need to be able to rotate them and flip them to be used at the EXACT angle/orientation that you want to. You can change the angle of your brush before you even use it! Here’s how:
Have your brush tool selected, with the brush you’re wanting to use loaded. Click on the “Brushes” tab in the upper right area of your Photoshop window (F5 will also open it). Click on “Brush Tip Shape.”
Now, you’ll see an area where there’s a circle with a crosshair through it, with an arrow on one side of the crosshair. Say that you want to rotate your brush about 40 degrees to the right. You can either type in “-40″ into the “Angle” area, or you can click on the arrow part of that crosshair, then drag your mouse to rotate it around to where you want it to be. You can check how your brush looks in the preview area beneath!
In more recent versions of PS, there’s also the options for Flip X and Y, which… well, basically flip the brush horizontally or vertically. That’s handy for adding borders to something, like if you have a corner brush that’s made for the upper right corner and you want to also use it in the upper left… just Flip X, and voila!
10 Responses to “Swirl Parts Photoshop & GIMP Brushes”
Thank you for ur great brushes and the Tips, since I am a photoshop newbee I can use a little help :-)
Thank you so much for your wonderful brushes and tips! I’m brand new to PS Elements but with your guidance I’m looking forward to doing creative things on my blog. I will be sure to give you credit.
Happy New Year!
Thanks for the hope!
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Hi, thankyou for the great brushes! Are these the ones you used for the the backing of this site layout, around the top edges?
I don’t have the thing u call ‘brush tip shape’. I’ve tried to click F5, but what pops out is only my list of brushes. help me ^^
@Mimi: This tip will only work if you’re using Photoshop. I’m not sure it will work in Photoshop Elements, and I’m fairly sure that it won’t work (at least, not the way I describe it) in GIMP.
When you hit F5, a little window with your brushes stuff should pop up. What it looks like will depend entirely on your version of Photoshop, but in CS4 mine has a list on the left. The top one says “Brush Presets” and then under it it says “Brush Tip Shape”. If you can’t find anything that says that, try clicking on each and look over on the right for a litte, white area that has a crosshair looking thing in it. Once you find that, you can follow the rest of the tutorial. If you have Photoshop, it WILL be there under one heading or another.
How do you use this to get the eyelashes smaller and rotate them in GIMP?
@Cassidy: I’m afraid I’m not sure how to rotate brushes in GIMP! I’ve never used it, sorry! Google “rotate brushes gimp” though and you should find plenty. :)
Thank you so much! [:
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