Okay...I got an email from this person who had downloaded some of my brushes, and wanted to know how I had achieved the effect in the image preview (I think ) I sent an email back saying "try using the brush on its own layer" and got an email back saying that the person didn't really "get" what I meant. So I promised to send more detailed instructions for how to do that, which led to me making the following "tutorial," I guess.

I find the idea of telling other people how to do things in Photoshop kind of funny, because I'm still learning it myself... but then I realized that there are all kinds of levels of experience with the program...this tutorial is written with the very new user in mind. But I'd like whatever feedback you guys might want to give, as I plan to pass it on to Zak.

It's kind of lo-res, hopefully you can still see it:
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Thanks Queen,
I learned a new idea reading your tutorial.
Thanks!

cuel! what you need to do is make a little zip package of all your custom brushes and upload them to the web for us to try out!

actually, mason, I sent you most of my brushes already

I mailed out that package with the dust, and put a disc in there with a bunch of my brushes, styles, and patterns. Oh, and some shapes! I must've read your mind in advance.

Ooo!!! You have a brush to make bowling balls! That's pretty cool.

But in all seriousness. How do you make brushes in the first place?

QLT what kinda DUST are you sending the boy?

Goat: they're actually marbles...you can find them here: http://share.studio.adobe.com/axBrowseSubmit.asp?d=553609&dn=Tiffany+Widman

You can make a brush with any selection...I'll usually find something I want to be a brush, select color range for white, then select inverse...that gives me a selection of everything but the white on the image...then go to "edit" and hit "define brush."

As for you, Tofu

I actually sent mason some WTC dust from the 9/11 cleanup, because his family collects sand, etc from different parts of the world. Sheesh! [/url]

That is awesome, QLT, you're very thoughtful. I have made 1 brush, and only one. it is the outline of a Coca Cola bottle...lol

Define Brush Rocks!