Need a little help here. I've made numerous brushes in Photo Paint using Photo Shop brushes converted to PNG's with ABR Viewer. For some reason I am missing something today as I try to make some from downloaded site.They are Explosions brushes that I downloaded from brusheezy.com. When imported into Photo Paint and try to make, I get the whole black square instead of the actual brush...like the image needs to be inverted to get just the brush and not the background. I've looked at danrichard.com and have used his instructions before but they are not updated for x6 but should be close. What am I doing wrong?
It's difficult to pinpoint a problem without seeing you work through the steps. When I open (not import) my abr-exported brush PNGs in Photo-Paint they come in as one object with a transparent background.
My steps in brief, compare and see if this is the same as yours:
1. Open Photoshop brush set in abrviewer. Export thumbnails (they will be saved as PNGs)
2. In Photo-Paint, open one of the saved brush PNGs (mine opens black object w/ a transparent background)
3. Use CTRL+M to create mask from object. (You may need to first select its layer on the Objects docker)
4. On the Brush Settings docker, choose to Create from Contents of Mask
Patti
Sounds like you are doing everything correctly. One thing that might be causing you to "not see" a selection is if you have Mask Overlay turned on and/or Mask Marquee (a.k.a. the marching ants selection) is turned off . Before using CTRL+M, on the Mask menu click Mask Overlay to turn it off (if you see a check mark beside it). And then again on the Mask menu, click to check Marquee Visible.
I've customized my PP workspace to suit me, so it's hard for me to remember the default settings in PP X6. I also use keyboard shortcuts without even thinking anymore. If there wasn't a default shortcut, I probably added one. Anyway...you can add the Mask toolbar to X6 by right-clicking on the main toolbar and checking Mask/Object. It will make these mask options easily accessible until you get used to them. Remember too that if you hover over a tool, you should see a tooltip + shortcut if one is assigned.
If the above doesn't help, let me know and we'll figure it out...