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can anyone give me a guide on how to add brushes post render?

DrekkanDrekkan Posts: 460
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Please can someone give me a basic tutorial preferly with pictures on how to actually apply brushes onto a daz render, I purchased some of 'rons' brushes which has many effects such as splashing water and blood and dirt etc many things. I have a finished render from Daz but I really don't know how to actually apply them yet though but I know you are supposed to put it in photoshop or something to do post work. What is the best program to use for it? is it the latest version of photoshop? is it free? I just want a basic free program that does nothing fancy other than let me put these brush effects onto my render.

 

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  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,704

    I use photoshop so that is all I can reallly talk about. It is not free, you have to pay for it. There may be other photo editing programs you can use but photohsop is industry standard. The brushes must be installed in your photoshop presets folder. To use them, once installed you select them, and a color you want to paint on the surfacte of your art.

    I would recommend checking out some photoshop tutorials on using brushes and layers for postwork  because you'll want to some experimenting with that.

     

  • KurzonDaxKurzonDax Posts: 228

    A free alternative to Photoshop would be GIMP.  It should be able to use the brush (ABR) files in Ron's sets. I don't know if it supports the layer styles though (ASL files).  There are tons of tutorials on using Gimp to paint, just search google or youtube.

     

  • Artistic ManiacArtistic Maniac Posts: 13

    GIMP is your best bet if you dont want to pay for Photoshop. It supports Photoshop brushes as well

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,924

    As to how to use the brushes, be sure and start with a low opacity and then layer, if you are doing things like creating water, smoke, fog, etc. It's better to put a light layer on than go on too heavy. With Photoshop, you can create different layers (think of that as like thin sheets of transparencies, on top of each other) so you can remove a layer if you don't like it, or try something new. Remember to keep a light touch and build up, even if you aren't using layers. And have fun- Ron's Brushes are awesome!

  • BlueIreneBlueIrene Posts: 1,318

    Ron's brushes are indeed awesome and I use them a lot. I've often thought that he would do well (certainly out of me!) if he were to package and sell tutorials relating to his brushes in the store. You only have to look at his promo material to see that he doesn't just make great brushes, he's very talented at the techniques required to use them. Dreamlight has pretty much demonstrated that there's a market for that kind of thing, and his lighting tutorials always seem to sell well. Please Ron, give it some thought if you see this - I'm sure there's money in teaching us lesser mortals your skills :)

  • Testing6790Testing6790 Posts: 1,091

    I believe photoshop has a nice long trial, btw. In my early college days I used to rely on photoshop trials a lot.

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