Brushes default download folder?
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Brushes default download folder?
Why some brushes can be installed or others not?
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If the brush is packaged as a Photoshop package, then you need to have an entry for Photoshop in DIM's Settings > Applications tab (it can be a dummy location). If it's packaged as a General package then it doesn't need that.
Sorry Fix. I don't understand. Where is the DIM's settings tab?
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Click on the ger ion in the upper right corner to open settings. There are 4 tabs, the last one is Applications. On the Applications tab, click the plus sign in the lower left. For the application, choose Photoshop. If you have Photoshop, choose the version, bit-depth, and path to the application. If you don't have Photoshop, you can pick any of the options for version and bit-depth, and for path choose where you want the brushes to go. For example, I have a folder named "Textures and Brushes", brushes install to a subfolder of that folder.
I download mine manually and drop them inside the brush folder in photoshop
I did it! I installed the brushes but I have some psd files. I don't know where install that :/
I have attached a image showing the files
Thanks!
Help please
Please don't bump threads.
As I was going to post anyway, the psd files go anywhere you like - they are just stadard Photoshop documents which should, to a greater or lesser extent, open in most image editors. What theya re for will depend on the brush pack - in many cases theya re intended to be used, suitably masked and transformed, as part of the final composition but they may also be more of a catalogue of the brushes.
Sorry Richard. It's a emergency
So a psd file have brushes inside? How can I extract them? How can I use these files? I download them from Ron's Explosions
This info is in the description:
I'm using photoshop cs6. I want to replicate the shot effect in the image attached
No, the PSD files contain images - 50 diffrent images, each on a alayer. So you need your render in layers too (that is, usually, render it out with diffrent elements hidden and save in png or tiff format - and no backdrop or environment dome drawn - so you have transparency). Copy (drag-and-drop to the tab for the master image using the arrow tool in PS) the render components and the explosion layers you want to use into a master image, adjust the size of thee xplosion layers as needed using the layer transform tools, possibly mask out or erase portions of the explosions to get the desired results, possibly change the blending mode.
Not all of Ron's products are brushes. Some are either overlays or include both overlays and brushes. This particular set is alpha overlays. It's a wonderful set which I've used many times. What's great is each effect is on it's own alpha layer. This means you can overlay a burst, or bit of fire, or an explosion on your image to add some wollop. Very often you can overlay more than one effect over another to get a different looking effect all together. While he could have given you brushes, brushes are grayscale, so you wouldn't get all the great color these alphas provide you.
If you look at the effects I've numbered on the images, these were all created using one of more of the alphas from the different sets in the product. You can move them, size them and erase out what you don't need (I suggest using layer masks rather erasing so you can modify what you remove if needed as you work.). You can even recolor them.
As Richard suggests, a further way to give you the ability to add effects to backgrounds with more ease is to render thing separately by just closing the eye on the parts you don't want rendered, in the scene tab. You can also work on a single rendered image and just use the layer masks to remove where needed. Whichever way is more comfortable for you.
Did that help explain?
Thanks for all the answers but I can't understand
How can I extract the images from the psd files?
I drop a psd file into daz and a pop up appear "No importer for the file format can be found". Then I try to open a psd file with photoshop. I see all the effects in a corner but I can't use them. I was trying to install brushes hours ago. I did it. I drag all the brushes to a folder named "brushes" in "adobe" and it's over. Now I can open photoshop and select a option in order to use them. So simple! There is a way to drop all these psd files in a folder and open them with an option in photoshop?
Thanks!
There are no files to extract, the file contains all the alphas. You can see the list of them in the layers palette. These layers are all alpha images. There are no brushes in this product. You can select the layer with a burst alpha, copy it and paste it to a file with the image where you want to use it.
Select the layer you want to use in the Layers pane, then drag it to the tab for the image you want to use it in (Untitled-1 in Cris' screenshot) and drop it to add it as a new layer in that image.
Thank you!!!!!!! I did it!
It's easy to correct the square of the brust effect? The unwanted effect around teh brust in the image attached
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That's where you paint on a layer mask - black hides the layer, white shows it. With the effect layer seelcted click the mask button at the bottom of the Layers pane to add a new mask, if there isn't one - you will then see a black-and-white (probably all white, unless you already had an active selection) thumbnail to the right of the layer thumbnail, click that to direct painting to the mask and not the layer and use black and white (and grey) to show or hide the effect.
Hi, This is Ron the creator of the brushes: Ice Dragon said it best, Manually download these THEN THERE WON'T BE ANY PROBLEM, Now I have a external hard drive where I store all my brushes or PSD layers so if PS crashes you will always have the brushes and PS files you know will be safe. Richard Haseltine knows what he is talking about as well if you chose another path it is up to you. Thanks for buying my products it is a pleasure to see others art using my material.
Thanks for all the answers!