I'm sorry to be a bit late with the next in our series today, but I'm here at last. Our next challenge is to play around with Brush Variance, using the heart or flourish brush we had last week.

It's time to let those creative juices flow and just see what happens! I've written a short explanation of Brush Variance, and given a link to a site where it is explained in much more detail. Have a read and then go see what you can create.

Please post your examples here or in the gallery and let us know how you are doing, and if you have any questions please ask

Brush Variance Information - Download Here

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Jane

Paint Shop Pro X2
Nikon Coolpix/Sony Cybershot

Here is my little bit of play. Made a couple more brushes to play with. And even saved a preset.
Couple questions-
1. When I made the new brushes I got that popup that says it is a duplicate file and some files may not be available. (er something like that anyway) It was a new name and the first time it was saved so I don't understand how it is getting duplicated. It saved to my special folder I made in the last lesson. Using PSP X

2. In my preset folder (rde_presets) do I make separate folders for all the different presets - one for brush presets, bevel presets, picture tube presets? or do all the presets just go in one folder?


Rochelle

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Hello, did you get message about duplicate after you made the preset? Did you give just the preset a "new name" or did you give the actual brush a "new name"? When this dialog box comes up click the option to copy to Notepad, and then open notepad and paste this info in there. Look carefully at the folder destinations listed and if you only see one C://My Documents/My PSP Files/Brushes/name of brush here. you are ok and psp just had a hiccup!
If you see see two instances of this brush with the exact same name but located in two different folders, remove one of them by going into your actual folder structures. This can take a little time to find both parts of the brush that PSP creates. And you do need to have both of them removed or you will continue to get these messages.
Another thing is if you remove a brush from the "Resource Manager" it DOES NOT remove both parts of the brush files and this causes troubles also later on. This might be what is happening and that you have one part of a old brush still in there that PSP is finding, but not the second part of it.

About the Presets, I DO create a folder within the main folder for everything in PSP. I always start with a folder with my name "TRACEY PRESETS" then inside of that I also include more sub-folder: Brushes, Tubes, Drop shadows, Inner bevels....anything that I have used where I created a Preset. Then I tell PSP to save any preset I make to my main Tracey Presets folder. Because if I made it, I want my stuff seperate from all the default resources and from the other resources that I have collected from the web.
Then whenever I am in a area of PSP where I know I can use my presets I use the drop down arrow to find my folders and then I know that everything inside there is what I have created.

Now also remember that if you are going to do this, you need to update your File Locations for your presets also. Where it looks to find them and tell it where to save them from now on also.



I keep a VERY clean orderly folder structure for my PSP programs and I always have. This might be the reason why I have NEVER HAD 1 (ONE) lick of trouble with it not behaving for me....?

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Wow you are so organized! I am impressed!

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Bon

Oh yes, I've learned a lot from Tracey's organising - and even better it all works

I have been meaning to experiment with my own brush variances to show you, but yesterday I was doing battle with 11 (only 11!) golden wedding anniversary invitations for my parents. How could I make it last all day? By not rotating the card for the second print and having the inside printed wrong. Then the ink ran out - which was expected but I didn't actually notice it in time. Then my envelopes wouldn't print properly from the template installed, so I had to make my own. That did work but I printed them upside down!

I am beyond embarrassed at my ineptness

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Jane

Paint Shop Pro X2
Nikon Coolpix/Sony Cybershot

Oh No Jane! I am so sorry as I know you need to get these done.

I have also meant to comment back to this thread, and my life this week was just crazy and the days seem like 2 hours long! I had planned on making a few simple examples of my brush variances but instead I will show you a few examples of what I have created using brush variances instead.

You can see my examples of what can be created with brush variances here instead.

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Well the invitations are finally printed!

I've also had a play with some Brush Variance on 2 cards - two for Mother's Day coming up in England on 2nd March and a Valentine one.

http://www.scrapbook-bytes.com/galle...0&ppuser=83115

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Jane

Paint Shop Pro X2
Nikon Coolpix/Sony Cybershot

WOW! That tutorial by J P Kabala is really loaded with information. Its going to take some work to get all that digested, but it sure did answer some of my questions about the brush palette. Thanks for sharing that.
I'm still trying to get to this week's homework. Guess I better get to it!