.abr - ??? help with photoshop brushes

[supergurg]

Howdy all, im a newbie when it comes to photoshopping...

ive been interested in learning how to download free "brushes", especially Script style text and every time i find a file and download it, it appears in a zip file with a xxxxx.abr file

when i double click on the .abr file photoshop opens up but there is kinda nothing inside...am i missing anything?

Gurgie

P.S. i have photoshop6

[Uncle Ghed]

What you have to do is cut and paste the abr file in your Photoshop/Presets/Brushes folder. Then open Photoshop and select the brush tool. Now when you click on the second icon in the bar under the "file edit image layer etc" bar, you can browse the brush presets.
that should do it, hope i've been clear! :P

[BlodoPKNZ]

I dont know if its only photoshop7 or something (probably not) but when you double click the brushes, while having photoshop open the brushes add to your brush list. Just scroll down and see, cause they appear at the bottom.

[supergurg]

thankyou soooooooo much guys

i think ive worked it out it seems though that only certain downloaded brushes are compatible with my version of photoshop...

Gurg

[bana]

Or in the brushes window, click on the little circle in the top right corner and choose "add brush"...it will load your brush in your list
But if you choose "REPLACE", it will only load the selected brushes in your list but will erase the others which were present in the list...so if your were having custom brushes, they'll be lost

[blacksens]

Originally Posted by BlodoPKNZ

I dont know if its only photoshop7 or something (probably not) but when you double click the brushes, while having photoshop open the brushes add to your brush list. Just scroll down and see, cause they appear at the bottom.

I have the brushes what there are to download free, but I can`t see that brushes in photoshop 6.0 incompatible version says the program...
I wanna Know if in photoshot 7.0 I'll have the same problem??????


Sorry about my English, I'm from chile!!!
see you guys...

[Man1c M0g]

Originally Posted by supergurg

thankyou soooooooo much guys

i think ive worked it out it seems though that only certain downloaded brushes are compatible with my version of photoshop...

Gurg

Unfortunately this is very true. If you have CS or greater you can be rest assured that all the brushes work, if you have PS7, then around 80% will work, and for older versions you'd be lucky to find any that work.

I wish there was some way to find out compatability easily (other than loading them into each and every version). Adobe really should have seen this coming and designed a proper standard from the start. If it was easy to do versioning i'd add an extra information field to the downloads section or something...