[Clementine]

Hello and...Help!

I just purchased some photoedge brushes in the boutique and am trying to figure out how to use them correctly. The description says they can be used with the eraser tool or the paintbrush tool. I am using PSE7, and am a newbie. I've done a basic tutorial, but am still just learning.

I'm having difficulty figuring out how to use the brushes to modify the edges of my photos. They (the brushes) appear in a frame shape...can't seem to resize or use the eraser tool.

I know this is probably pretty basic, but does anyone have directions for these specific brushes? The directions that came with them are basic directions on how to load brushes.

Thanks,

Clementine

[ScrappingForever]

Hey Clementine! Can you tell us what brushes you bought specifically, just to give us a frame of reference. (No pun intended! LOL)

But as far how to use a brush, you want to click on the brush tool in the Tool Palette on the left hand side of the screen. It's the one that looks like a paintbrush. Once you have chosen the brush you want to use, you should be able to change the size of the brush by hitting the left or right bracket keys on your keyboard. Those are these ones - [ to make it smaller and ] to make the brush bigger. Then you should just be able to click on your layout and the brush will "stamp" in whatever color you have chosen in your color picker.

The Eraser tool works the same way. The Eraser tool is the icon that looks like an eraser in the Tool Palette. Again, you'll choose the brush you want to use, and increase or decrease the size with the left and right bracket keys. To erase, you'll "stamp" on the edge of the photo and that part of the photo will be erased in the shape of the brush.

I hope this gets you started a bit. Let us know if any of this is unclear.

[momwife and friend]

Hi I too just recently purchased the photoedge brushes. I can stamp the photoedge brush on to my photo but I can not use the eraser to get the edges to go away. What am I doing wrong?
Thank you

[PBarnes]

With the Brush tool, you'll usually "stamp" on a separate layer above the photo. With the Eraser tool, you'll want to make sure that you are on the actual photo layer and you might also want to check if the opacity of the eraser is set high enough that you'll notice the bits you are erasing away.

[Jster025]

One thing to remember, used as a brush, the brush can be rotated. Used as an eraser, it cannot. You have to rotate your image layer instead.

Another thing you can do is (on a new layer) stamp as a brush in a photo frame shape in any color. Then use your rectangle Marquee tool to fill the center with the same color. You have just created a photo mask that you can use Ctrl-G to clip your photo to. If you’re doing a rectangle, you may have to do some deleting at the corners.

Have fun!

[momwife and friend]

Thank you for the information.
I will try these techniques.
Happy Halloween!!

[JKSlusser]

Jster025, on 27 October 2010 - 04:00 PM, said:

One thing to remember, used as a brush, the brush can be rotated. Used as an eraser, it cannot. You have to rotate your image layer instead.

Another thing you can do is (on a new layer) stamp as a brush in a photo frame shape in any color. Then use your rectangle Marquee tool to fill the center with the same color. You have just created a photo mask that you can use Ctrl-G to clip your photo to. If you’re doing a rectangle, you may have to do some deleting at the corners.

Have fun!

Can you tell me how to rotate the brush please?

[teecee]

JKSlusser, on 28 May 2012 - 05:10 PM, said:

Can you tell me how to rotate the brush please?

I'm using PSE 9 and to rotate a brush, Once I've selected my brush, I go to the icon in the options bar that looks like a paint brush (it's the last icon on the right). When you hover over it, it will say Show Options for Setting Brush Dynamics. Click on the icon, and at the bottom of the box that comes up, you can either use your mouse to drag the arrow around the circle or you can type a number in the little box that says angle. HTH