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?
Robbie said:... what kind of settings are you using to get your posted image? I want to attach a image for you to see but I can't seem to get it below the forum size limit.
I use a freebie program called Irfanview to do quick screen shots. That particular image was then cropped and exported for Web (in Irfanview) as a PNG.
You can use Windows Print Screen key and then paste it into any image editor (e.g. Photo-Paint, Photoshop, etc.). Crop and Resize/Resample in your image editor.
I think the forums's limited to a maximum width of 640 pixels, so cropping or resampling helps. The file size needs to be less that 512 KB or something like that, so export/ save with a resolution of 72 dpi to keep file size lown. I like saving as PNG because it makes a better image and I can resize again it if needed w/o loss of quality.
HTH
Patti
Ok...Im going to try to attach an image to show you that PNG file.
Had some spare time last night and I believe I found the guilty brush set on Brusheezy.com. Is it the one called 16 Photorealistic Explosions? The thumbnail images in abrViewer show them with a black background -- that was the missing piece of the puzzle. In other words, it is NOT Photo-Paint's fault or yours, it was the brush set.
And you already figured out how to invert the mask to make them work.
Just so you know, I tried loading the actually brush set in Photoshop 8 and they come in with the background, so basically the brush set is useless, unless you want to paint with big black rectangles with explosion holes in them. [:S] I think someone made a mistake???