kathylee Loc: Cleveland, Ohio and Clearwater, Florida

Hi, I have been lurking in here for a while absorbing all of your expertise. My questions about brushes are:
1. I thought I read that there are cloud brushes out there someplace. How do I find a cloud brush for free or inexpensive?
1. Ok now that I have found it, I hope, how do I get it? I use Photoshopelements #10 and read somewhere not to clog it up with brushes, but to open a new folder for the new brushes outside of elements and get them from there. That is what I would like to do. In simple terms please, if you can help me.
I know I have to download them, but what are the steps? Like A. do this, B. etc Thanks in advance.

Sirpixxalot Loc: NNJ

Here is how you do it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKu3jsUknaY

kathylee Loc: Cleveland, Ohio and Clearwater, Florida

Thanks for the reply, I looked at the video for a min and looks like it is installing them into Elements. I would like to, if possible, install them into their own file not in elements.
I will look at the video again more carefully, it looks like an easy video to understand.

Where do I find brushes that are free and inexpensive? Looking for cloud brushes, but sure I will go crazy with brushes once I learn how to do this. The captions are really strange on the video so will take me some time to understand it!!!!

Sirpixxalot Loc: NNJ

You can download brushes from the following website for free, enjoy!

http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=clouds+brush#/djilar

Ziza Loc: USA

Here are some cloud brushes.

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?searchfield=eden+cloud+brushes&search_exchange=&search_license=&search_rating=&search_pubdate=&Submit=Search&num=10&startnum=1&event=search&sort=0&dummy_tmpfield=
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?searchfield=cloud+brushes&search_exchange=&num=25&startnum=1&event=search&sort=0&interim_dummy_tmpfield=&Submit

If you download your brushes as a compressed file (.zip or .rar), you first need to extract the brush files (.abr). Then, you create a folder somewhere on your computer and keep the brush files in it . To use brushes without installing them in Photoshop Elements, you need to do this.

1. Activate the Brush tool.
2. In the Options bar click on the downside arrow to the right of the brushstroke thumbnail box.
3. In the Brush Picker window, click on the double arrows.
4. Select Load Brushes in the fly-out menu.
5. Navigate to where you stored your brushes on your computer.
6. Select the brush you want to load and click Load.
7. Your brush will now be available in the Brush Picker, at the very bottom of it.

If you want to be able to preview uninstalled brushes, you can use a free program -- ABR Viewer.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/abrviewer/

kathylee Loc: Cleveland, Ohio and Clearwater, Florida

Thanks for all the help now I have my work cut out for me!!!!!!
Looking forward to getting and using brushes.....

Ziza Loc: USA

You are most welcome! Have fun with brushes!