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?
You're welcome. I used to use Photoshop a lot, but stopped buying after version 8. I keep it installed for a few things (especially the gradients). These days I mostly use Photo-Paint, so I've converted lots of brushes w/ abrViewer -- great tool!
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...