Hello,

I purchased some brushes inthe market place a while ago and never really got a chance to sit down and play with them until now. Basiclly they are are set of brushes used to create your own landscapes in photoshop, Grass, Mountins, Trees, Water, etc,

I'm just not really sure how to use them yet if anyone can give me some tips or have them and how they use them to add color, ect and start building a nice background scene.

I bought a similar set of brushes - it was Ravnheart's Landscaping Kit - back in 2003, one of the first things I ever bought here. Very good they are too, very useful for running up a quick backdrop to a scene. The image shows one of the things I did with them. I think (it was a long time ago!) it's all made with that set apart from the dragon, which was from another brush set.

Basically, this is just a plain purple background with several layers each containing an indvidual element - rocks, water, clouds, etc. None of the brushes is actually coloured, as I was aiming for a silhouette effect. It doesn't hold up as a standalone image but would work as a backdrop. So there aren't really any tips to using these brushes, just give it a try and see what you get. If I was doing this now I would also be using blending modes, maybe lighting effects, adjustment layers and so on, but this is just made from a series of layers set to normal and that's it.

Actually that is the set I bought, just never really used them yet, it was always easier to use a premade background or something but now i want to try use the brushes to make a nice detailed color background to fit my scene, and the tutorial that came with is vague in some steps I dont understand and so far what I have tried by folowing that doesnt produce real detailed results :(

specially i dont understand when it ask me to duplicate a layer then change the layer color to black or white? any help with that

Quote - specially i dont understand when it ask me to duplicate a layer then change the layer color to black or white? any help with that

What they mean by that is, duplicate the layer, lock the transparency, and fill it with black (or white). This replaces only the non-transparent pixels in that layer with the specified colour.

aaaaah cool deal thanks for explaining that to me :)