Liana’s Greek Pattern Photoshop Brushes

A set of several ancient Greek patterns made into Photoshop brushes. Has it really already been a couple of months since my last post? I’m sorry — I got caught up in other projects and discouraged about this one, for no good reason really. I don’t know if I’ll be able to get anything done by Friday, but I feel the urge to break my absent streak today, so for now let me give a present to the Photoshop users among you: the brushes I made when I did the ancient Greek peplos. Although I did the work of making them into brushes, I used the original patterns from a public domain book, The Costume of the Ancients, so I think it’s only right to pass the derivative work back into the public domain. Here’s the link to the zip file.

To install the brushes, just unzip the file, put the .abr file in your Brushes directory (for me, it’s under Presets), and restart Photoshop if necessary.

Free for personal and commercial uses, attribution appreciated but unnecessary, and if you change the brushes yourself, please keep the terms the same. To put it in Creative Common terms:
Creative Commons License
Liana’s Ancient Greek Pattern Brushes by Liana Kerr is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at lianaspaperdolls.com.

I released it this way because I hate remembering where I got a particular brush and whether or not it’s OK to use for a project I’d like to make money off of, but if you use any of these brushes in your own work I’d certainly like to see how they turn out!

The brushes are a little on the large size, but I tend to use them at much smaller sizes, which is where they’ll probably look best. Feel free to ask if you have questions! (I may add a tutorial on using them later, but for now…)

5 thoughts on “Liana’s Greek Pattern Photoshop Brushes

  1. I am so glad you are back Liana. I was beginning to wonder if you had been put into a witness protection program.

    1. Haha, no, I always come back to paperdolls! If I ever do have to go into the Witness Protection Program, that’s how the mob will discover my true identity, by keeping track of all the new paperdoll blogs that appear ;)

  2. I was browsing around your blog a little while ago and came across The Twelve Dancing Princesses: A Christmas Tale. I read up to Day Six, but I couldn’t find the rest of the story anywhere. Pardon my asking, but is there any more to the tale?
    It’s great to have you back, Liana! I was starting to worry about you.

    Sarah :D

    1. No, but lately I’ve been thinking I should finish it (after what, several years of people asking about it?) It’s a Christmas story, so the bad news is I’d feel silly doing anything with it before then, the good news is that I do have several months to prepare…

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