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[killmebecomeme]

Today I present...1 icon from Angel's "Smile Time" and 10 from Buffy's "Dead Things". I've also got a question for fellow icon makers. Too make my icons better I want to learn to use brushes and borders. Can anyone help me out with learning how to use them? I have PS 5.5. Now..the icons

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[frontyardninja]

I've got photoshop elements 2.0. But I can tell you how I use borders and brushes... if you want that is. I started going into a whole big thing but didn't know if someone else could tell you exacts better. I'm a 'dumb it down for myself' kinda gal.

The icon I'm using now (Pete!Chevelle!) I did with one or two brushes... can't remember.

And I'm grabbing #6.

[killmebecomeme]

I'd love any help you could give me

[frontyardninja]

*thinks*

Okay - what I have is PSE2.0. The brushes I download - and I usually do it a lot at a time - can work on just about anything 5.0+ - very cool.

I've got a lot of sites linked so... I'll throw those in at the end. But you download them, then unzip the files you your presets. That's what I do, anyhow. It takes a while longer to load in the long run, but I don't really understand the instructions most of the time... lol.

So I put mine into Photoshop Elements Presets --> brushes. And when I'm ready to add brushes or a border brush, or a border, I add a new layer. That way I don't really screw it all up. Because I'm notorious for that. But I play with the colors (you're good at that!) and opasity and colorizing and all the different things you can do.

Crackers4Jenn - she's good (see current icon), missandrony

Echoica.net (brushes) Rebel Heart (brushes) Magic Box (brushes) Lush Brushes Jenah (collective) Annika von Holdt (brushes) Um. more brushes

Tarnished's 100x100 brushes

quebelly has 100x100 brushes in her

[killmebecomeme]

Okay, two questions. First one is stupid but...how exactly do you unzip the brushes? And second...every time I download brushes and try to load them into PS 5.5 it says they don't work with that version so I don't know what to do!

[tallichair]

snagged #1! Excellent!

[imacrusader]

To answer your question:
I don't think that there's an easy way to teach you how to use brushes, as it is one of the most essential parts of ps itself, imo.
Most borders are actually special brushes, cause that's the fastest way to create them.
if you want more information on "the art of icon making" (and I think some of these will most likely help you with your question) I'd advice you to read some tutorials. I know that tlace has some good ones in her memories.

[magicoftara]

I like what you did with the icons but Im not taking any.

[lizpin]

You can get brushes and stuff from:http://www.livejournal.com/community/100x100_brushes/
and tutorials on how to use them from: http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=icon_tutorial