remember, I'm on a Mac

[sab]

Hey- anyone know how to install downloaded photoshop brushes and/or textures and/or "action kits"? The sites I'm downloading from seem to agree they're compatible with my Mac OS and my Photoshop 5.5, but once I get them unzipped and downloaded I don't know where to put them, or how to access/use them from within Photoshop.

Any tips? Like, starting with which folder I have to drag them into and concluding where I check my brushes palatte or my textures dialog box and they're just, um, there?

You are wise, almighty internet. I implore you. Help?

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[sweet-adora.livejournal.com]

find the folder photoshop is installed in. click on the folder 'presets' and then on the folder 'brushes' inside that folder... put the brushes in there :] lemme know if that doesn't work, it might not if you're using a different version of photoshop than me

[sweet-adora.livejournal.com]

oh, and when you click on the brush tool, you should see in the tool box at the top a little 'down' arrow right next to the circle that displays the size of your brush. click on it, then click on the little circle with an arrow pointing to the left. go down to 'load brushes' and find the brush set you just put into that directory :]

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

There's no folder called "presets" -- in my Photoshop 5.5 folder there are:

FOLDERS: Color Tables, Gradients, ImageReady Actions, Optimize, Patterns, and Styles

Then there are four...palette-looking things. One is called ImageReady Swatches.aco, the other three are Actions Palette, Adobe Photoshop 5.5 Prefs, and Color Settings.

NOW, all of those things above were in a folder called Photoshop 5.5 Settings. THAT, in turn, was in another folder, called Adobe Photoshop 5.5.

In THAT, TOP folder, we have the launch programs for Adobe ImageReady 2.0 and Adobe Photshop 5.5. We also have the Settings folder I inventoried above. And a readme.

THEN, we have the following folders: Goodies, Help, Helpers, License Agreements, Plug-ins, Registration, Required, and Training. There's also a version of Simpletext and a file of "Undocumented features."

Here's hoping you can make some sense of *that,* dear wenlet?

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Hey! I loaded the brushes!

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Now, what about the textures? Okay, lemme look before I leap. *g*

[sweet-adora.livejournal.com]

eep, textures was also in the presets folder, which i guess isn't in the mac version...? O_O lemme know if you can get it working~~

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

No, sadly, I can't figure out how to get textures where I can load them. I also can't find or use borders. I'll have to learn more about my mac photoshop, is what.

Thanks so much for your help!

[infinitemonkeys.livejournal.com]

I don't know if this is any help, but you could always try loading them as actual images and then using them as layers, using the eraser tool to get rid of the parts you don't need.

Borders is easy. Either
Apple+A, --> Edit menu --->stroke puts a border round whatever you apple+Aed,

or else under (IIRC because I am not at home) one of the later drop down menus with Modify, and border is in that.

[memorycharm.livejournal.com]

Hmm.. I've got Photoshop 7 on my Mac, and all that stuff is in the presets folder. If I remember right, with 5.5 you have to load in the extra textures and brushes--on the CD, there's a file called "goodies" with all the brushes and textures, etc., but you can probably just make any old file and put it in your photoshop folder, then put the textures in that folder, then go to: Filter > Texture > Texturizer > Load Texture, which should give you a menu to hunt for your new textures... I think. It's been a while!

[xxxtine.livejournal.com]

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