CS5 Brushes, Photoshop & GIMP, Tutorials

Hey folks!

As I can see the number of RSS readers has increased very well. And after endless questions how to install the brushes or how to color them like I do, I’ve decided to write that ultimate Photoshop Brushes guide to explain everything you need for using my brushes.

That guide will give you an overview of using the brushes and a little overview of some nice tutorials. With that guide you will be able to create images like these:

Let’s start

Getting the Photoshop brushes

To work with brushes, you will notice that you need some brushes to work with.

In my Photoshop Brushes section you will find all my brushes I’ve ever created. To download them click on Download, then click on the left side of the page on ‘Download’ again.

Installation of the Photoshop brushes

Save the .rar archive to your harddisk, extract the file (you need WinRAR for that) and open Photoshop.

Select the Brushtool and click at the top at this arrow.
Now click that symbol and select Load Brush. Select the extracted .abr file. That’s it.
Your brushes are now available in your brushes palette.

Notice that you can’t use brushes made for CS3 with Photoshop versions lower that CS3. But you can work with older brushes, when you have a newer Photoshop version like CS3.

Using the Photoshop brushes

Check out the following tutorials:

• The Photoshop Brushes Tutorial shows you how to colorize the brushes
• With the Glowing Tutorial you can add a glowing effect to an object
• Creating Energy spheres using brushes
• Create an explosion effect using splatter and abstract brushes

Feel free to post other cool tutorials related to brushes, I will add them.
And of course: Feel free to link to that guide!