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erick

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brushes not working
on: November 10, 2018, 12:17:30 PM
Hello

i have  installed a set of brushes  Free Brush Stroke Photoshop Brushes.abr from https://www.brusheezy.com/brushes/56970-free-brush-stroke-photoshop-brushes

when I use them I get


what is wrong ?

thanks for helping
Last Edit: November 10, 2018, 12:19:37 PM by erick

as42543

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Re: brushes not working
Reply #1 on: December 02, 2018, 09:29:10 AM
I have tried to import a few *.tpl brushes and they have worked OK.

For *.abr brushes I am seeing the exact same error.

Environment: iOS, iPad Pro

Bulotron

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Re: brushes not working
Reply #2 on: December 02, 2018, 10:53:42 AM
These brushes maybe don’t get transered 1to1. Just adjust the spacing and use the settings dude

as42543

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Re: brushes not working
Reply #3 on: December 02, 2018, 11:19:04 AM
You should try yourself before giving rather useless advice.

The brush tip is not correct and looks like some scribbling. Setting the spacing to a smaller value helps in reducing the "stuttering" look, but doesn't at all make the brush look as it is supposed to be.

Not sure if that is true for *.abr in general, but the import for the above and what I tested with is definitely broken.

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Re: brushes not working
Reply #4 on: December 02, 2018, 01:08:22 PM
How can I try myself to import a brush I don’t have. From the fisrt comment it’s apparent there is a problem and the only visible problem with the brush since it wasn’t specified seems like it is “stuttering” therefore decreasing the spacing mends the issue. Abr import is in fct not broken at all. I only use brushed I’ve imported from my ps library. There might be an issue with the brush engine not being exactly the same therefore with some brushes you might experience misshaps and when that happens just try and investigate the tool your working with G.

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Re: brushes not working
Reply #5 on: December 02, 2018, 04:34:18 PM
So far it seems to me that '.abr import indeed is broken. I have yet to find any *.abr which can be imported to act as a reasonable brush. That the function itself is not crashing the program alone doesn't mean it isn't broken.

Were the brushes you imported successfully (which means working reasonably afterwards) 'in *.abr format?

You can see the issue yourself if you try e.g. the below free PS brush. The brush stamp of the imported brush is the sample brushstroke, which of course makes no sense at all.

https://www.brusheezy.com/brushes/56970-free-brush-stroke-photoshop-brushes

as42543

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Re: brushes not working
Reply #6 on: December 02, 2018, 04:44:47 PM
Hi @LuckyClan, are you listening? Can you shed some light?

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Re: brushes not working
Reply #7 on: December 03, 2018, 06:39:18 AM
Brushes you are trying import were not designed to use it for drawing, you can treat them rather like cliparts. It means you should use to make individual 'stamps', not strokes.
I compared how they look in Artstudio and Photoshop, and they look the same!

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Re: brushes not working
Reply #8 on: December 03, 2018, 03:09:58 PM
Sophisticated Photoshop brushes need some tweaking in ASP. Play with scatter and Dynamics, for example.

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Re: brushes not working
Reply #9 on: December 07, 2018, 12:32:06 PM
No, this is not "fixable" with brush settings.

I have searched for PS brushes the past days and looked at many. What surprised me (and I guess the original poster as well) is that many (many!) are "just" scanned brush strokes, as @LuckyClan correctly pointed out.

They are not meant for painting with them, they are just stamps you can use to put 1:1 to your picture. IMO this is useful only in rare cases, but of course your mileage might vary.

Because I had found so many of these stamp-only brushes when searching for free PS brushes to try out the brush import, I had assumed there were brushes out there, with a format not recognized by Artstudio. Seems that was not correct.

When searching more intensely, I found a good list of brushes for painting, which work quite well in Artstudio. For anyone interested, I am pasting a few links below. None of these are mine, all credits to the original creators.

https://www.deviantart.com/aarongriffinart/art/BRUSHES-609357781
https://www.deviantart.com/pixelstains/art/7-Charcoal-Brushes-for-Photoshop-523567502
https://www.gemistry.net/resources/photoshop-brushes/

Have fun.