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Tracey R (Haley64) · #25 (**permalink**) 01-29-2008

You can do whatever you wish as we are just playing but we want something other then just brush images. Yes by all means take a brush image and turn it into an element. Sort of like I included in the zip file. There are 1000's of ways to use one brush image.
I mentioned filling a background paper with a brush image to get a patterned paper. Show us what you got and then post an example of what you made in the gallery!!

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Originally Posted by rde

Jane - so glad you posted examples. I had something more in mind. So this first lesson is just to make different filled heart brushes rather than an element?
Rochelle

kellbuckley · #26 (**permalink**) 01-29-2008

i made an easy one...not too much thinking outside the box on this one lol

my own little foil heart

Here's a quickie question though....Oh, btw, I use PSPX (which Tracey already knows lol) is there a simple way of smoothing the edges of a shape such as this?

Tracey R (Haley64) · #27 (**permalink**) 01-29-2008

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Originally Posted by kellbuckley

i made an easy one...not too much thinking outside the box on this one lol

my own little foil heart

Here's a quickie question though....Oh, btw, I use PSPX (which Tracey already knows lol) is there a simple way of smoothing the edges of a shape such as this?

Yes there is, if you select the heart image and then Selections>Modify>Smooth with the Smoothing amount (the larger the number the more smooth the selection becomes) Try something around 50 for the heart shape, check anti-alias and uncheck Preserve corners. This rounds out the marching ants into a smoother rounder selection. From there you can either contract the selection or create a new layer and use the bucket fill to fill it in the new shape.

Tracey R (Haley64) · #28 (**permalink**) 01-30-2008

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Originally Posted by rde

Here's where I learned to attach a thumbnail and I didn't have to upload to a photoshare site-that saves time!
http://www.scrapbook-bytes.com/a-tut...icle_562.shtml
Was pretty quick and easy
Yes my brush folder is part of the path and the files inside the separate folders are .jbr files. I can get to them by importing a custom brush. Noticed the zip files are also in the folders so don't know if that is a factor. Will take a look at Tracey's installation info from her brushes since that seemed to work because her brush folder shows up. Even when I used PSP alot in the past it was always hit and miss on loading the brushes. Never did get a firm grasp on getting the brushes sqaured away like I wanted but was able to access them by other means. Bedtime for me now so will problem solve and play tonight. Thanks for all your efforts.
Rochelle

Hey here is a video tut for PSP on importing old .jbr brushes into newer versions.
http://moonsdesigns.com/tutorials/psp8/custombrush.html

rde · #29 (**permalink**) 02-02-2008

Well had hope to do more with this but too many irons in the fire. Did learn, though. Thanks
1. Just the concept of making an element from a brush
2. How to make and save a custom brush in my own folder
3. How to import other folders of brushes and understand a bit more about File Locations (if only I can remember!)
4. The free transform tool- never used it before but scaled porportions didn't scale down evenly so was able to tweak the smaller hearts so the three layers had about the same border distance.

Tracey R (Haley64) · #30 (**permalink**) 02-02-2008

Rochelle, You have made some great examples of how to use and alter brushes and creating elements from them!

Jane Bradbury · #31 (**permalink**) 02-03-2008

That looks great Rochelle!

DiBu · #32 (**permalink**) 02-06-2008

Just posted a tutorial re making a brush from a lace dingbat. But placed it in the PSP ideas thread. Probably should have gone here. Check it out--kind of interesting.