Loading Brush Libraries
Several brush libraries ship with Photoshop but aren’t automatically loaded into the Brushes palette or Brush Preset picker. Some of these brush libraries include calligraphic, square, and special effects brushes. Load a new brush library and give it a try. Having a few new brushes is a great way to expand your Photoshop painting and editing repertoire. Here’s how:Open the Brushes palette menu or the Brush Preset picker menu and select a brush library from the bottom portion of the menu. (See Figure 23-21.)

Figure 23-21: Choose a brush library from the menu.
If you don’t see the brush library that you want to choose, continue with Step 2. If you do find the brush library that you want, skip to Step 5.
If you don’t see the brush library you want to use, choose Load Brushes from the palette menu.
Select a brush library by using the Load dialog box.If you don’t see the library that you want to load in the default Photoshop brush folder, use the Load dialog box to move to the folder location where the brush library is located.
Click Load.
Use the dialog box that appears, as shown in Figure 23-22, to determine how the brushes are loaded.

Figure 23-22: Use this dialog box to select how the brush library is loaded into the Brushes palette.
Click OK to replace the brushes currently loaded in the Brushes palette and Brush Preset picker with the selected brush library.
Click Append to add the brush library to the end of the brush list in the Brush Preset picker and Brushes palette.
Click Cancel to discontinue the entire operation.
Many Photoshop artists have created great brushes and brush libraries that are available for download on the Web. Two of my favorites are shown here. In the following figure is a sample of Togs brushes by Sage Winyard. Togs brushes and many other brush libraries designed by Sage are available at www.photoshop.brushes.btinternet.co.uk/Photoshopbrushesl.

If you want to search for more great brushes, just type Photoshop brushes into your favorite search engine and check out the results.