Next, click the gear icon labeled in and choose Load Brushes. Once you’ve downloaded the brush (or brushes) to your hard drive, activate the Brush tool, and then head to the Options bar and open Brush Preset picker. For example, you could type brush, action, gradient, or whatever to see just those items. Once you’re on the site, click Photoshop in the list of applications on the left, and then either scroll through the resulting list of goodies or enter a term in the search box. You can access this site by choosing Help →Adobe Add-Ons or Filters →Browse Filters Online. Give the brush a name and then hop on over to the Adobe Add-Ons website and upload your file to achieve Photoshop fame. To share your new brush with the masses, head to the Brush Preset panel’s menu and choose Save Brushes (the Brush panel’s menu doesn’t have this option). You can even download a brush set that’ll make your image look like it was printed on wrinkled or torn paper, as shown in Figure 12-31. That’s why all manner of free and low-cost brushes are available on the Web.

Folks love sharing the custom goodies they make in Photoshop. If you feel the need to share your custom brushes with the masses, you’re not alone.

Photoshop brushes