How to Load Brushes into Elements

Lesson Info

How to Load Brushes into Elements

You should also know that you can get even more brushes. So beyond all of the ones that come with Elements, you can actually download free brushes. And you can buy brushes too, but you can download brushes from the Internet. There's a website that I check out often called Brusheezy, it's b-r-u-s-h-e-e-z-y. Brusheezy.com And they have a lot of free brushes that you can download and pull in. I'll show you here how you could do that. With the Brush tool active, you click here where we found all of our fun brushes. And then there's this little menu right here, and you would just click on this, and then click load brushes. And then you navigate to the Brushes file. And I happen to have a few right in this folder that I have downloaded. So the brush files are gonna be .abr files, which stands, I forget, Adobe Brush? Adobe Brush Renderings, I don't know. Dot a-b-r. So that's all you have to do, then you click on that, so, like, for example, here are some splatter brushes. And when I click ope...

n, it loads those into my brush panel, and then I could double-click and I have a splatter brush that I can now use. So that is how you can take your brushes even further. But before we wrap up this segment, I also wanna show you the shape cookie cutters. I think it's called the Cookie Cutters tool. But I thought it might be fun since everyone's a cat lover, right? Who doesn't love cats? I thought we could take this fun picture of this cat and bring it over and I'm gonna show you some fun things you can do with the shape cutter. I need one more image. Actually, we'll just pull it from here. So you can open images, as you know, from the editor, but also up here. File, open. I'm gonna go grab something from over here. I have file that's just like a pattern paper. So you can use this particular tool to cut your image into shapes. For example, it's similar to the Shape tool, only instead of drawing a shape, it actually cuts a shape. So it's found, actually, with the Crop tool over here. So if I click on the Crop tool, you'll notice there are two additional Crop tool options available to me. We have this Cookie Cutter crop and this is a Perspective crop. So the one I'm talking about right now is the Cookie Cutter. When you select that, you see the same shapes that we just saw a moment ago. So I'm gonna dig through here, and I am looking for a tie, I guess of some sort. I was thinking a bow tie, but this one would have a hollow inside because it's white. So I like this necktie that is black so it will make a better use of this pattern. So I'm gonna double-click to select that. And then in this image, I'm just gonna click and drag, and I'll hold shift to keep it proportional. And when I let go, I'm given the opportunity to move this if I want. I can move it around if I, maybe I don't like the particular pattern, like where the tie landed. So I can move it around over the pattern. I could scale it or resize it. When I'm happy with it, I go ahead and click this check mark. And what I've got now is that pattern paper cut into the shape of a tie, and it's already on a transparent background. What that allows me to do is then take the Move tool, and we clicked and dragged, we paused up here on this bar. I'm still holding the button down on my mouse. And then I drag down into the image and shift key drop. And now I have a little tie for the cat. And maybe I wanna resize it, so I'm gonna press command or control T, and I'll just drag inwards from a corner. I'm not holding shift 'cause it's already gonna constrain the proportions. I'll hit the check mark and now our little cat has a tie.

Class Description

Lessons

1. Class Introduction
2. Understand How Elements Works
3. Importing Images
4. Workspace Basics: Organizer
5. Workspace Basics: Editor
6. Tonal Adjustments in Quick Fix
7. Color Adjustments in Quick Fix
8. Apply Black & White Filters
9. Sharpen an Image
10. Fix Red Eye & Pet Eye
11. Straighten an Image in Quick Fix
12. Explanation of Photoshop Elements
13. Basic Cropping in Quick Fix
14. Guided Edit Overview
15. Guided Edit: Tilt Shift
16. Ways to Save Files
17. Layers & Simple Selections
18. Combine Images with Layers
19. How to Use Layer Styles
20. Make Selections with Layers
21. Make Selection with Lasso
22. Compositing with Multiple Images
23. Refine Edge Selection on Image
24. Use Refine Edge on Images
25. Create Gradient in Image
26. Gradient Map Differences
27. Options for Saving
28. Brushes Overview
29. Creatively Use Brushes
30. How to Change Brush Settings
31. Use Shape Tool with Brushes
32. Work with Multiple Shape Layers
33. Finish Image with Custom Shape Tool
34. How to Load Brushes into Elements
35. Add Layer Style to Image
36. Clip Image to Shape & Use as Template
37. Retouching Overview
38. How to Use Content-Aware Fill
39. How to Use Content-Aware Move Tool
40. Spot Healing Brush on Blemishes
41. Remove Frown Lines with Retouching
42. How to Remove Tattoos
43. Remove a Gap in Teeth
44. How to Whiten Teeth
45. Adjust Facial Features
46. Working with Type Overview
47. Match Type for Image
48. How to Manipulate Type Layers
49. Create Postcard with Type
50. Add Type on a Path
51. Organizing Images in Elements
52. Add Keywords to Images
53. Smart Tags Overview
54. Using Albums in Elements
55. Places Workspace Overview
56. Use Event Tags on Images
57. Timeline for Image Organization
58. Recommended Workflow