Loading Photoshop Brushes

Whether you scrapbook traditionally with paper and glue or digitally with Photoshop, or even combine the two, using brushes can add a little pizzazz to your pages. You can make photo frames from them, add a little something extra onto your photo before you print or even print them off and layer them on your page. But first we need to load them into Photoshop.

For a MAC:
1.  Click on the download link and download to your desktop. (Make sure you upzip it too.) In Finder, open your applications window. Click to open your Photoshop folder.
2. Make a new folder called Brushes. You are ready for business!
3. Open Photoshop. Click on your brushes palette. At the top of the palette is a small arrow. Click on it. Choose “Load Brushes”. You now have to go select your new downloaded brushes. (They have the letters .abr at the end of them and you saved them inside Finder: Applications: Photoshop: Brushes.)

For a PC:
1.  Download and unzip your brushes.
2. Move your unzipped brushes file(s) into a permanent place.  I like to have a Brushes folder in My Documents.  It doesn’t matter where you put them, as long as you know where they are.
3. Open Photoshop. Click on your brushes palette. At the top of the palette is a small arrow. Click on it. Choose “Load Brushes”. You now have to go select your new downloaded brushes. (They have the letters .abr at the end of them. Remember where you put then in step 2!)

There are lots of brushes available on the Internet to pick from. Here is a list of places to check out.

http://tutorialblog.org/free-photoshop-brushes/
http://www.psbrushes.net/
http://www.photoshopbrushes.com/brushes.htm
http://missm.paperlilies.com/01_brushes.html