Isnt theres a way to solve the problem...

[Mk47]

Hey everyone ^^
Im asking this cause im on photoshop 7.0.1, and currently im having a problem cause I cant use many of the great brushes that are travelling the web...

Cant we decompress the .abr from a compatible version of a friend that has CS or CS2? If yes, can we compress it back on 7.0.1? And how?
Thanks

[Tikkitang]

ahhh i've heard that some people can help yo convert them down.. dunno how to though

[Mk47]

Yes, thats exactly what I want to do... friends deconvert them and send me the images and i re-build the .abr
Isnt there is a compressor/decompressor?

[Mk47]

I got CS2 now ^^
But if someone could answer , maybe it would help other people?

[Chriz]

Probably not because the fileformat changed too much, dont know anything about brushes though i'll have a look at the format specifications maybe there is hope

EDIT:
I cant find the specifications, without that its impossible to write a converter.

[Mk47]

Another question : do you know how to make brushes or do you know a tutorial that teach it?

[Spid3r]

You could possibly use them on a new document and save them after clicking them once on a different layer. Then open in ps7 and save them as brushes.....

[kompakt]

Originally posted by Mk47@Oct 31 2005, 05:05 PM
Another question : do you know how to make brushes or do you know a tutorial that teach it?

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theres a tut on brushmaking around here somewhere....check the tutorial archive.

also, all i know about brush making is that you can do whatever in photoshop, then save it as a custom brush in the edit options.

[Spluff]

Millions of tuts on brushmaking, it's one of the prime tutorial subjects.

To fix the brush, you'll have to load it onto a version of photoshop that it is compatible with, brush a transperant layer, take that to an old version of photoshop, and 'define brush preset'. You have to do that for every brush, which is a pain in the ass. You'd think somebody would have made a macro or something, but I haven't seen one. .

[Kyoushima]

CLICKY

I found a tutorial on how to convert from like CS2 to 7.0...

It's basicly the same as Spluff said although in a tutorial with pictures xD

Might be of use to someone :lol: