Where do you download Brushes and Backgrounds for Photoshop?

I know of people using smoke, eyelash, hair and other types of brushes that I do not see available in Photoshop initially. I also know of people downloading backgrounds from other places such as deviantart.com.





I would like to know of the best websites to download these same (above) brushes and backgrounds.





Also, after I've downloaded it, how do I know it will accessible in Photoshop, I think I know how to load them.


Thanks :)Where do you download Brushes and Backgrounds for Photoshop?
Have you thought about making your own?


It's relatively easy and your not confined to searching for that ';one of a kind'; brush that seems to elude you.


Any image will work but brushes must be black and white so this would be for a color photo.


Open the image, duplicate(so your not messing with the original) then Image%26gt;%26gt;adjustment%26gt;%26gt;desaturate which renders it grayscale. Then Image%26gt;%26gt;adjustment%26gt;%26gt;brightness/contrast. Adjust to remove as much gray as possible from the image so all that is left is black and white.Try to make it as clean and recognizable as possible. Grab your polygonal lasso and create a marquee around some part of the image. Go to edit%26gt;%26gt;define brush, it will come up in a window showing the properties of the brush and VOILA!, you've created a brush. Try it, the possibilities are endless....Have fun!Where do you download Brushes and Backgrounds for Photoshop?
Adobe Exchange:


http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/in鈥?/a>


or


http://tinyurl.com/3dldtj