Heart Valentine Romance Wedding Brushes for Photoshop, Elements etc

Loading heart brushes in Photoshop and Elements

The heart brushes are in the ABR format. Load the brushes via the edit preset manager or the brushes palette right side menu load / replace commands.

This is the same for all versions of the creative suites, Photoshop elements, CS5 CS4 CS3 etc. Added: January 5th 2012

example shows the hearts being loaded via the load brushes command into Photoshop CS5

Access heart brushes in Photoshop and Elements

The heart / wedding brushes are accessed via the heart brushes palette as below - select the brush from the palette and modify the size etc

example of the shapes palette in Photoshop with the heart designs from the pack 90 set displayed

Smart heart brushes in Photoshop CS5

The brush designs can be applied in CS5 as a dab to a layer, the layer can then be converted to a smart object which in turn can be modified at any point in the creative process as well as have active smart filters applied.

example of a brush from the pack 159 applied to a blank layer in Photoshop CS5

example showing the conversion of a layer to a smart object in Photoshop CS5

example from the pack 159 - using PSB files to modify a smart object layer with a heart design means the layer is 'active' throughout the creative process and a brush stroke can be quickly changed to a new brush stroke in seconds.

Brushes in Xara Designer Pro (from Xara Group Ltd)

Brushes can be used in many different software. They can be used as bitmap files (raster) as well as converted to vectors and then used as a brush. The examples below relate to the Xara Designer Pro application (a powerful vector and bitmap application that can create truly stunning designs with ease). The heart brushes can be used in Xara as in many other software.

The brushes sets often include EPS shapes and they can also be used in the Xara application.

example showing the create new brush dialog and heart shape selected

The above example shows the creation of a new brush in Xara - the heart shape was imported into Xara via the file > import command. While the shape is selected and the brush tool has been selected, click the create brush option and give the heart brush a name.

example above shows the xara dialog for rotation, scaling etc

Once created, the brush can be further modified by clicking the edit brush option and setting the rotation, spacing, offset, fill etc. Apply the brush by clicking the dropdown brush set adjacent to the edit brush button.

example showing sketch heart brushes in Photoshop in Pack 94

Using heart brushes to create a displacement texture in Photoshop

The brush files can be used (such as the heart brushes in the pack 159, to create a design that can be used in the displace command / glass filter in Photoshop or other filters in other applications. The key thing is to keep the design as a seamless tile and save the file as a PSD file - the PSD files can be used in the displace filter commands

example - using the brushes in the pack 159 and using the offset filter in Photoshop - a quick texture is created, seamless and can be saved as a PSD file

example - pack 159 brush texture (created above) applied as a displacement map using the distort / displace command - use to create millions of distorted and distressed designs. Added January 16th 2012