How to Use Ron's Hydro Explosion Brushes in Photoshop CS2

Richter-3D

Hi, all.  

I bought Ron's Hydro Explosion Brushes from DAZ and posted a question to Ron on his personal web site, with no anwser.  Can anyone help me???  I pulled Ron's Hydro Explosion brushes into my Photoshop CS2 and I can brush with them all day long.  The problem is: Instead of the brushes looking like crisp in-focus water, it looks like out of focus fog.  I expeced a nice thorough readme file with the brushes, but he only gives you enlarged pics of each brush.  No word about how to really use them in Photoshop to actually make them look good.  I've attached my test file below.  I simply used one of Ron's water brushes on a black background.  

Can anyone tell me what else I have to do to make Ron's Hydro Explsion brushes work?

Richter

 

 

Richter-3D

For some reason the attachement didn't pull into this post.  Sorry.  Don't know what went wrong there.  It simply looks like fog, not water.

Chohole

try the attachment again , sometimes they do fail a time or two before attaching themselves

I don't have that one, so can't try it for you.

 

Richter-3D

Trying the attachment again.

Chohole

did you try using a layer style on it,   Ron's brushe do sometimes look better if used on another layer and a layer style, maybe something like vivid light.

Tobor

The example image is really too small to be able to tell.

Along with the brush image will be a size, in pixels. To make sure you're not pixelating because of mismatched sizes, find the brush you want and note its size, such as 2415. Create a new document that is just slightly larger. Add a new layer, and size the brush so it fits the canvas. Check that there are no shape dynamics or other settings that can cause weird effects, and click over the document to stamp it down once. Unless the brush was made with soft edges (I don't believe that's likely, given this set), it should be fairly distinct.

Ron's stuff tends to be high resolution. They don't always look good in small documents. In a document that's only 500px, for example, a 2500 px brush will look fairly pixelated. If you need a smaller image, it's better to use these kinds of brushes at a larger size, and then apply Photoshop's bicubic resamplers to get a sharper image.

Lyam

This may be a dumb suggestion by me, but it's worth asking, did you check the opacity or flow of your brush?  If you have either at a lower percentage, naturally the water may look like fog.

Richter-3D

I will check on your suggestions and see what is going on.  Thank all of you!

Richter-3D

All:  

Thanks for all of your help!  One of the problems was not large enough pixel size in my layer.  Once enlarged enough, it popped.  I'm also going to experiment with your other suggestions.

Richter