Installing Custom Brushes
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Resources
- PSP 8 or 9. You can download a demo HERE.
- Any brush that did not come with the program. You can download one HERE. This brush is in PSP V7 format and is only suited for this tutorial. Unzip it to any folder on your harddrive other than one belonging to PSP.
Let's get started
*Please note: If you install this tutorial as a quick guide you may get a script error when trying to view the images, just click "yes" at the prompt and the images will show properly. Don't know how to install quick guides? then check out the tutorial found HERE.You will find that brush collecting, like any other aspect of PSP can become very addicting. You may gather hundreds of brushes and it is best to have some kind of system that makes identifying the creator easy. I personally create subfolders within my brush folder titled with the name of the creator. Then to take it a step further, these folders are broken down into types, ie., grids, horizontal, grunge etc. This is by no means the only way to organize them but it works for me. So for the purpose of this tutorial we will create a folder first then point PSP to it.
- Open Windows Explorer (or whatever you use) and and navigate to My PSP 8(9) files within My Documents. Click on the Brushes folder then create a new folder called "Gfxsally" (you can delete it after this tutorial). Now move the unzipped brush into this folder
- Bring up PSP then go to File->Import->Custom Brushes. This is what you will see:
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- Click on the "Edit Paths" button, as indicated by the red arrow. You will see something similar to this:
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- Click on add then browse and browse to the gfxsally folder. Click ok. The Import Custom Brush dialog box will come back up. (image in step 1)
- Click on open and browse to the gfxsally folder. In this case there is only one brush called psptext.jbr in the folder so click on it and click open again. (For more than one brush click on the first one in the list, hold the shift key down and click on the last one in the list.) This is what you will see:
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- Since there is only one brush just click Add all. But if you were to have a bunch of brushes and only wanted to import a few you would hold the control key down and select the ones you want then click Add. Once you click add/add all the brushes will move from the left pane to the right pane. Then click ok.
- Now look in the gfxsally folder. You will these three files.
The BrushTip_psptext 001.PSPScript holds the brush variance--or the way the brush behaves. The psptext 001.PspBrush holds the shape. And the psptext.jbr file is the original. When you delete a brush in v8 & v9 you must delete both the brush tip and the brush itself, whereas, in previous versions there was only the .jbr file to delete. When you are finished with this tutorial just delete the entire gfxsally folder then point PSP to another brush location.
The thing to remember is that the brush you import will be imported with the variance of the last brush you used. So if the brush does not behave as you expected, or if you just don't like it, bring up the brush variance palette (hit F11 if it is hidden) and change what is needed. The variances on the brush used in this tutorial should all be set to Normal 0, Fade rate 1, Position jitter 0, Impressions per step 1.
If you collect any v8 or V9 brushes there is no need to import them in this manner. Just put both the brush tip and the brush files in the same folder and point PSP to their location.
I hope you found this tutorial useful and easy to follow. If you have any comments or questions please feel free to .
