A frames & borders brush set has always been one of my more requested ideas. I’ve gathered snippets here and there slowly over time, always meaning to make the set but just never quite getting around to it. When I was reminded about it recently by Eric of PhotoshopSupport.com, as we were discussing an exclusive brush set, it seemed like the perfect time to finally get down to it! So, here it is!

This set is being offered exclusively on PhotoshopSupport.com. I also wrote a tutorial that is offered on the same page as the brush set, so that you can see how to best use each brush. There’s also a description of each of the brushes in the set available, as well. It has everything from regular wooden frames to ornate and decorative borders… rope borders…a stone archway… a polaroid frame… a stamp frame… and tons of others.

 

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So, you’ve learned the basics of how to use Photoshop brushes. What now?There’s a whole lot of options for those brushes, actually! You can use Photoshop’s brush options to change the orientation, shape, spacing, scattering, angle, etc of how those brushes are applied. This tutorial will show you a few of those options, as well as some examples of how they can be used to create patterns, etc.

This tutorial is suitable for any Photoshop user, from beginner to advanced. However, a more advanced user will understand all of the different brush options much more clearly. A beginner can still follow along, though. If you have trouble understanding my explanations of the different options, try them out for yourself and see what they do. Or, stick to the steps that I specifically tell you to do, and you’ll see some changes in the brushes yourself!

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I’ve had a brushes installation tutorial up forever. Back when I made it, I had every intention of making one for Photoshop patterns, but I just never got around to doing it. Then I forgot about it, until someone was kind enough to ask about how to use them in an email and remind me.

This tutorial was made for Photoshop beginners, or anyone who hasn’t used patterns before. It will work in ALL versions of Photoshop from at least version 7 and onward. Photoshop Elements users should find the steps VERY similar, so you can certainly try to follow along with that, as well!

If you want to follow along, you can download my Lace Patterns set here.

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Feel free to ask any questions that you may have in the comments!

This is a fairly long tutorial. But, there’s a reason for that. I’d seen several other tutorials out there on Embroidered text, and they just weren’t as detailed or realistic as I would have liked to see them. So, I created this one. With it, you should be able to create some fairly realistic “embroidery” in Photoshop.

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While this tutorial should be followable by beginners, to get the full effects from it (knowing how to “play around” with the different settings that I suggest in the end to get your desired effect, for instance), you should know some of the basics of Photoshop. Like, what multiply does versus screen, etc. Even if you’re a beginner, however, you should be able to follow my more precise instructions and get a good result.If you have ANY questions, please don’t hesitate to ask in the comments. I will answer them. With this tutorial being as long and in depth as it is, I want to be sure it’s understood! Enjoy.

(The brush set that I use to create the lines can be found here: http://www.obsidiandawn.com/brushes/sets/micro-patterns-brushes.php )

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I’ve had a few people ask me lately “Do you have any of your brush sets available in larger sizes?” Unfortunately, the answer to that is pretty much “No.” When I make these, I make the original size somewhere around 500 X 500 pixels in most cases, because most people don’t need them to be much larger than that. If I made them much bigger, the file sizes would start to get really huge.

I do have a few higher resolution sets, where the brush sizes are more like 1000 X 1000 pixels. But, once I finish a set, I don’t keep any original images that I used to make that set, so the sizes are pretty much what they are.

Keep in mind, though, that these ARE Photoshop brushes. I mean, just because the original size is 400 X 400 pixels doesn’t mean that’s the largest it can be used. You can make the brush size a decent amount larger right there in Photoshop, without getting much blurring.

So, what if you can’t? Is there a way to make a particular brush larger and still keep it very crisp and sharp? Yes! In fact, this doesn’t apply to just brushes. It applies to any “shape” that you want, really, provided that it’s not something terribly complex. It won’t work very well for your basic photograph, for example. But, it’s great for a design like I use below.

Please keep in mind that this tutorial is written with Photoshop CS2 specifically in mind. It makes use of “Smart Sharpen,” which isn’t available in any previous version of Photoshop. I don’t THINK it’s available in any versions of Photoshop Elements, but I may be wrong. (And if I am, please correct me in the comments so that I can fix this!) You can try the tutorial using any of them, but the quality of the ending image just won’t be the same. None of the other sharpen tools really come close to what Smart Sharpen is able to do.

You can follow along with the tutorial using the same image that I used. Download the image here.

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