How to Install Adobe Photoshop Brushes?

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I know, I know! Most of you design buffs already know about this. But this tutorial is intended at those wannabe designers who are yet to experience one of the greatest masterpieces that combines the worlds of art and technology i.e., Adobe Photoshop . Every photoshop user will need the help of custom brushes to design their masterpiece. There are many a collection of photoshop brushes available over the internet. This tutorial provides with a definite tutorial to install all those custom brushes.

Follow the below steps to install the adobe photoshop brushes

  1. Download your favorite custom brush set. (You sure would know how to download right? :) )
  2. Most of the times, the download file is a compressed file like a .zip or .rar file. Extract the files from the archive.
  3. You will find some files with an extension of .abr . ‘abr’ is the extension for an adobe photoshop brush. Select and copy those files.
  4. Now, all you need to do is paste those .abr files in the right location. Find the location of your Adobe Photoshop installation. In windows systems it is more likely to be ‘C://Program Files/Adobe/Phosothop CS3′ .Find the folder ‘Presets’ in it. You will now have to find folder ‘Brushes’ in the ‘Presets’ folder and paste the .abr file there. If you Phosothop path is as givern above then the place you have to paste the .abr files will be ‘C://Program Files/Adobe/Photoshop CS3/Presets/Brushes’.
  5. Now start your Photoshop. If you might have it already opened, you should restart your Photoshop.
  6. Select the Brush tool.
  7. At the top right as shown by the cursor in the adjacent picture there will be a selector for brushes.Click the small arrow over there. A menu pops up.
  8. Now click the arrow on the top right corner of the new menu as shown in the figure.This should pop open another menu which contains the names of the brush sets you have installed. You can select any one of them you want. Photoshop gives some alert dialog asking for your confirmation. When you confirm you will have whole new set of brushes to choose from. :)  

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Lucky Murari a.k.a Santosh Lakshman is an aspiring entrepreneur.He is an Electrical and Electronics engineering graduate from a prestigious institute in India.He has a varied experience in the fields of web programming technologies,online marketing and blogging.

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11 Comments to How to Install Adobe Photoshop Brushes?

  • James@Free iPhone says:
    April 18, 2009 at 7:00 pm

    Nice one, thanks.

  • garminnuvi says:
    April 19, 2009 at 5:40 pm

    great tips thanks

  • tsquez@psd to html says:
    April 21, 2009 at 3:39 am

    very useful info amigo, especially for those just starting out using PS. Hopefully they will learn to use the brushes they find to make some awesome designs.

    tsquez’s last blog post..Include Your Fonts

  • whitey@super sport camaros says:
    May 21, 2009 at 8:56 am

    I have a question – are brushes backwards and forwards compatible? I have cs4 and I was wondering if I could take my brushes to work (they have cs3).

    Thanks
    whitey

  • Shaz@Photoshop Tutorials says:
    May 28, 2009 at 11:40 am

    Hi there this is a very well writter set of instructions and was helpful to me.

    @ whitey yes you can all you need to do is open them in cs4 and save them again as cs4 file types then again for some of them you may not even need to and they should work straight off

    Shaz’s last blog post..150 valuable Photoshop Actions sets + Tutorials

  • Graham@vandal proof LCD enclosures says:
    June 4, 2009 at 2:51 pm

    Fantastic, I have tried to change brushes but I fail every time, your easy to understand isntructions have now helped me.

    Thanks.

  • Shaz@Photoshop Tutorials says:
    June 9, 2009 at 1:34 pm

    this is definitely what i was looking for i had downloaded a brush that is compressed in .zip and i cant seem to find how to install it in photoshop but this tutorial really helped me a lot thanks for sharing your knowledge to us… :P

    Shaz’s last blog post..25 Unique Hand Picked icon Designs

  • Mark@Cheap Mobile Phone Deals says:
    June 12, 2009 at 3:00 am

    Nice detailed post. Thanks for sharing!

  • JAP@ Love poems & Love Quotes says:
    July 4, 2009 at 9:29 pm

    Thanks for the quick tutorial on the brushes for photoshop. I really needed this….thanks so much!

    Regards,
    Jermaine

  • Photoshop Guru says:
    August 14, 2009 at 11:19 pm

    I am new to photoshopping and stuff, I really needed this. Thanks a ton for making this post and I just can’t wait to share this with my cousins, who are pros in photoshop. I bet they don’t know about this…lol! Even if they know, who cares. I’m gonna place links to this post on other forums so that newbies like me get to know about this. Thanks again!

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