Making A Brush II
After reading the photoshop tutorial on making a brush I have been experimenting. Remember when you make a brush and export it in PSP X it can be no longer on a side than 500 pixels. There are several ways you can do it but here is one example.
Find a picture you like, it can be anything. It doesn't even have to be a high contrast. I picked this one. I had already started messing with it in a program but didn't like it so I decided to make it into a brush.
First I used my selection brush. I used the freehand selection or the rope tool. I used point to point and went out away from the flowers a little and selected the part I wanted. Go to Selections-modify-feather inside and out and choose both. I made mine 88. You can always change this part as you go if you don't like your brush misted. Click ok, right click on the top of the picture, select copy. Right click on the top of the picture and select paste as a new image. 
Use the move tool and center your image. Use the eraser tool and clean up any hard edges. If you use low settings for the hardness and density it will leave some little noise places. If you want it clean make your settings higher.
You may want to add a raster layer, pull it down below the flowers and make it white so you can see if there are any places you have missed. I decided I wanted to clean up close to the edges of the bottom of the flowers.
Go to Image and choose greyscale. Now if you like it like this just leave it but I wanted the veins in the bigger flower to show up so I went back to Image and chose negative image. Just try this and see what the differences are. I use the negative image a lot in brush making.
This is what I came up with. I cropped it closer to the flower and made it 500 pixels on a side. Image-resize, notice which side is the longest and put 500 in either height or width.
You can File-export-custom brush-put your name-what it is and number it in case you want to do more flowers or whatever it is you are doing. You can export the psp image without the white background or you can export after you merge visible with the white background. It makes no difference in the look of the brush.
This is something I made with this brush:
These are all brushes I have made either taking photos, things out of psp, like tubes and textures, fractals, marker drawings I have taken pictures of and uploaded them to psp. You can make anything into a brush. The heart I made with the pen tool.
If you would like to use my tutorial please give me credit. Because it's the right thing to do. 
Find a picture you like, it can be anything. It doesn't even have to be a high contrast. I picked this one. I had already started messing with it in a program but didn't like it so I decided to make it into a brush.
First I used my selection brush. I used the freehand selection or the rope tool. I used point to point and went out away from the flowers a little and selected the part I wanted. Go to Selections-modify-feather inside and out and choose both. I made mine 88. You can always change this part as you go if you don't like your brush misted. Click ok, right click on the top of the picture, select copy. Right click on the top of the picture and select paste as a new image. Use the move tool and center your image. Use the eraser tool and clean up any hard edges. If you use low settings for the hardness and density it will leave some little noise places. If you want it clean make your settings higher. You may want to add a raster layer, pull it down below the flowers and make it white so you can see if there are any places you have missed. I decided I wanted to clean up close to the edges of the bottom of the flowers.
Go to Image and choose greyscale. Now if you like it like this just leave it but I wanted the veins in the bigger flower to show up so I went back to Image and chose negative image. Just try this and see what the differences are. I use the negative image a lot in brush making.
This is what I came up with. I cropped it closer to the flower and made it 500 pixels on a side. Image-resize, notice which side is the longest and put 500 in either height or width. You can File-export-custom brush-put your name-what it is and number it in case you want to do more flowers or whatever it is you are doing. You can export the psp image without the white background or you can export after you merge visible with the white background. It makes no difference in the look of the brush.
This is something I made with this brush:
These are all brushes I have made either taking photos, things out of psp, like tubes and textures, fractals, marker drawings I have taken pictures of and uploaded them to psp. You can make anything into a brush. The heart I made with the pen tool. If you would like to use my tutorial please give me credit. Because it's the right thing to do. 
