Celtic Brushes

by June Young
(Lancashire, England)

Celtic Brush Examples

I have been working on some montages based on early England (about 850 to 900 AD) and King Alfred so I needed one or two Celtic designs. Once I got started making Celtic brushes I ended up making quite a few.

Source material for these designs comes from several places. Royalty-free designs, bits from old illustrated manuscripts, bit from postcards, my own photographs of old gravestones, etc.

For most of my brush sets, backgrounds and so on, I now notice odd bits like book endpapers which sometimes have nice designs, bits of nice sky or buildings in my photographs. In fact anything which catches my eye as long as it is not copyright material!

I tend to work on a 2" x 2" white background at 300 dpi. Make my source picture grayscale, erase any background / bits I don't want, then select the design and move it onto my prepared 2 x 2 white background. Flatten the image then either save it into a temporary folder or reduce it if I am doing a lot at once that I want to make into brushes right away. I am using Photoshop CS3.

There are 33 Celtic brushes in this set, of varying shapes and sizes. The example image gives you an idea of the style of the brushes.

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