Brushes are very powerful and quite excellent if you have a good understanding of Photoshop. The first thing I would recommend HIGHLY is you first learn Photoshop because there is much that you must know to use it properly. The better you are, the better everything will look and there are a lot of ways to do something.

I strongly recommend reading EVERY chapter in Photoshop The Missing Manual. Once you do, it will be like night and day and help a great deal.

Jeff

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