How to Convert an abr file into PSP Brushes

 

Go HERE and download the latest version of abrViewer

 

You will be taken to the next page where you will have towait around 5 seconds then

a pop up will appear. Choose Save As from the options and save the file to your

"My Documents" folder of your computer.

 

 

Once the download is complete close the web page as you no longer need it.

Now on your computer go to your "My Documents" folder

 

 

Right-Click on the file named "Release_NET20_2.0.rar" and select "Extract Here"

You will notice you now have a folder named "Release_NET20_2.0"

Now you can Delete the "Release_NET20_2.0.rar" file

 

Open the Folder named "Release_NET20_2.0"and you will notice a file called

"abrViewer.NET.exe"

Double click on this to open the abrViewer program

For the moment you can minimize the program

 

 

Go HERE or HERE and Download the Snowflake brushes created by env1ro

Download the file to your Desktop so it is easy to find

Right-Click on the Snowflakes zip file (the one on your Desktop)

and choose "Extract Here" ... Now you can delete the Snowflakes zip file

 

 

Now you need to go to the location where you save your

Brushes to and create a new folder and call it Snowflakes

(same name as the brushes file)

 

 

Maximize the abrViewer

File> Open Brush Sets

In pop up go to your Desktop and select the file named "snowflakes.abr" and click Open

wait a moment and you will see several little images appear in the abrViewer

 

 

Export> Thumbnails

In pop up go to the Folder you created called "Snowflakes" and select it and click.

A window will now open showing the contents of the

Snowflakes folder and you will notice there are now several png files of Snowflakes

Delete the first image named snowflakes_0 because you don't need it

 

 

Close the abrViewer as you don't need it anymore

 

 

Open your Paint Shop Pro ... Drag and Drop the "snowflakes_1" image into your psp

File> Export> Custom Brush ... under name type in snowflakes_1

click on the "Edit Paths" button

 

Under the Save To option click on the drop down box and

Select the location of the Snowflakes folder then click on OK

Then on the little box where you typed the name click on OK again and that's it brush created

 

If you look in the Snowflakes folder you will see two new files have appeared "BrushTip_snowflakes_01.PspScript" and "snowflakes_01.PspBrush"

these are the Brush files

 

Drag and Drop the "snowflakes_2" image into your psp

File> Export> Custom Brush

Under name type in snowflakes_2 then on ok

The file location is already set from when you did snowflakes_01

And again the two new files will appear in the Folder.

 

 

Continue with this process for the rest of the snowflakes

 

Once you have done them all, you can delete the png files from the folder as

they are no longer needed and just take up memory if you keep them

 

Restart your PSP and open a blank canvas any size, click on your

Brush Tool and then the little selection box

 

Under Category select snowflakes (or whatever name your folder was given)

And now you can choose one of your new Brushes

 

And that's it all Done

I hope you enjoyed this little Tutorial and found it useful

 

 

Please Note: each time you do this, the first time you Export>Custom Brush

Always remember to "Edit Paths" and set it accordingly otherwise you will

end up exporting into the last designated destination .

 

 

 

Tutorial written on 28th December 2011

©David Hanslip