ONE of my FAVORITE benefits to using, teaching, and promoting Adobe’s Photoshop Elements software is that there is such a HUGE user community. As a member of that community you will find an endless supply of freebies available to you.
Kim Conover and I just started a Facebook Fan Page for our little Photoshop training company (The MaskMasters … aka 1000Words DSF). So far, we’ve had two speed scraps with our fans and shared some great online resources through our fan page. We thought it only appropriate that we give our fans a gift … a set of calendar grid brushes.
These brushes can be used to create printable or digital calendars … simply “stamp” the grid on a new layer, grab your text tool and fill in the blanks! You pick the font, you pick the size, you pick the colors! Lots of possibilities!
To install the brushes:
- Copy the *.abr file to the Presets>Brushes folder.
NOTE: If you don’t know how to find it, simply use your File Finder and do a search on *.abr (on mac – use spotlight and type in abr). - Open Elements
- Create a new file
- Activate your Brush tool
- On the Options bar (at the top of your screen…) open the Brush Preset Picker window (far left end of the options bar).
- Click on the very small rightward pointing triangle in the upper right corner of this window.
- Scroll down the list … do you see a new set on the list? Called MaskMasters Calendars? Select it … the software will ask if you wish to Replace or Append … the answer depends on whether or not you’ve recently created some new brushes and haven’t saved them yet. If you have not, then you can Replace.
- Now you can play with the brushes … change the size of the calendar grid, set the color, adjust the angle, etc! There’s no limit on the fun!
I will return tomorrow with some samples and perhaps some photos to help you install and use this fun set of brushes.
