************************************************************ *Product Name: Magical Glyphs - Characters 3 *Copyright 2011 *By: Laszlo Mayer (Caballus) ************************************************************ This is a collection of magical fantasy letters. You can apply them to your mystical or fantasy renders or paintings with a picture editing program that can use Photoshop brushes or transparent PNG images. Use them whenever you need some arcane or alien script. Contents: This set contains 88 different fantasy characters as Photoshop brushes. Each character has 4 variations - a plain and a glowing one both in big and small size version. So you get 352 brushes in total. All these brushes are also included in transparent PNG format just in case you can not install Photoshop brush files in your graphic program. Bonus Contents: Background images: You get 2 background images, one old paper texture in clean and stained variations to start you off. Basic symbols: You also get 2 different basic symbols on transparent layers in PNG format with their plain and glowing versions too so there are 4 symbols included in this set. -------------------------------------- System Requirements: PC and Mac compatible Photoshop PaintShop Pro Adobe Reader to open the User Guide. -------------------------------------- Ownership Statement: All of this product's content was created by Laszlo Mayer (Caballus). -------------------------------------- Installation Instructions: Unzip the files to a folder of your choice with your unzipping program. You will get several folders named according to their content (Backgrounds, Brushes, PNG, PNG - small, PNG Glow, PNG Glow - small, Symbols). The PNG folders contain all the different brushes in separate PNG files. You can use them if your graphic program can not handle Photoshop brushes but can open PNG files. If you can install the brush files (found in the Brushes folder) do not use the PNG files, because you can work with the brushes much easier and faster than with the PNGs. You can use the backgrounds and symbols by opening them in Photoshop, or another program which can open JPEG or PNG files. You can also import the bonus backgrounds in Poser or another 3D graphic program. Installing the Photoshop Brushes: First quit Photoshop then navigate to the location of the Photoshop program on your hard drive. Inside the Photoshop folder is a folder called Presets. Open it and find the Brushes folder. Open that too. Copy the brush files from your unzipped Brushes folder to this Photoshop Brushes folder. Then launch Photoshop and open the Brushes palette (Window menu › Brushes). In the palette drop-down menu (the little downward pointing triangle at the upper right corner of the palette) you will find the names “Fantasy Brushes 03 Plain”, “Fantasy Brushes 03 Plain Sml”, “Fantasy Brushes 03 Glow”, “Fantasy Brushes 03 Glow Sml”. These are the brush sets you have just installed. Select the one you want to use. You can also select Load Brushes… from the palette drop-down menu and open the brush file you want to use. -------------------------------------- Usage Tips or Limitations: Using the Brushes There are 4 different versions of the 88 fantasy characters grouped in 4 Photoshop brush sets. Each set contains a different version of the same 88 characters. Select the one which is the most suitable for your current needs. “Fantasy Brushes 03 Plain” contains the basic shapes of the characters in big size. It is suitable for print work. Use it if you need the characters in big size with clear, sharp outlines or if you want to apply your own effects to them (e.g. applying a bevel layer style to them in Photoshop making a carved look). “Fantasy Brushes 03 Plain Sml” contains the basic shapes of the characters in much smaller size (25% of original size). It is usually not suitable for print work. Use it if you work for screen resolution and you do not need the characters in very big size. These characters have clear, sharp outlines too so you can apply your own effects to them. “Fantasy Brushes 03 Glow” have the same big size characters as “Fantasy Brushes 03 Plain” but with a glow effect applied to them, so you can make glowing text with them easily. Suitable for print work. “Fantasy Brushes 03 Glow Sml” is the small version of the glowing characters, suitable for screen resolution work. Select the Brush tool. Open the Brushes palette (Window menu › Brushes) or the Brush Preset picker (on the left hand side of the Option bar when you have the Brush tool selected). From the palette drop-down menu select the brush set that is most suitable for your work if you have installed the brush files. Or alternatively select Load Brushes… from the palette drop-down menu and open the brush file you want to use. From the Brush Preset picker choose the character you want and use the brush by clicking on the canvas. Tips for Effective Use: Select a normal or small sized brush set according to your needs. Try to avoid enlarging the brushes. Scaling up is always degrades the quality much more than scaling down. So always try to scale down and never scale up. The individual brushes are sized in proportion to each other. If you want to scale down the brushes it is advisable to make the whole script first (on a separate transparent layer or in a separate document) and scale down, move and rotate them together as a whole. Use rulers to line up the characters correctly. Use guidelines or draw lines with the pen tool on a separate layer. You can make slanted guidelines in this way and you can make curves and circles too. If you want to place the characters along a curved line place them on separate layers and rotate each character independently according to its position on the curve then select the layers and merge them. Scale the whole text after this procedure. You can add many different layer effects to the fantasy scripts you have made. Use the Plain versions of the brushes for this. The Outer Glow and Bevel and Emboss effects are used most often. Use the Bevel and Emboss filter if you want to make carved symbols. You can use this product for personal or commercial projects. The only limitation is that you can’t resell its content unmodified or just color corrected. 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Characters 3.pdf