I hate _HATE_ when people say "make your own" in response to just about any question. "how do i get brushes for photoshop?" "make your own", "how do i use photoshop actions?" "make your own", "how do i buy a car" "make your own". The reason it's so upsetting is because most of the time the people saying it are only saying it because they got that exact same answer from someone else when they tried to ask. There's no need to be so cynical about this, i don't get it. Yes, there is a certain appeal to doing all your work by yourself. But when you're in a business situation where it's selling and not art for arts sake alone, then you need to use presets and actions and pre-packaged crap sometimes. it doesn't make you cool to act like you do all your work by yourself, and it certainly doesn't help the community. so stop berrating the new members with snobby smart-ass answers and try and actually help.

My graphic design teacher always said to me "Adam, there's no need to reinvent the wheel." That's advice every graphic artist needs to follow if they plan to survive.

Furthermore, I'd like to know where this line is drawn in the sand between what's okay and what's not okay to "steal" from someone. Some people get all high and mighty about using a brush set you found on the internet, but they don't think twice about cutting a character out of an anime still frame from TV, putting a cloud filter behind it and claiming it as their own work.