hawksmont brushes are packed in archive files (usually with .zip extension), so the first thing you have to do is to unpack the brushes files form the .zip after downloading it from any site.
To unpack the archive you can simply right-click on your downloaded file and check if there’s the “unpack” option. If there is, just choose it and unpack the files from the archive to your brushes folder. If you can’t see that option, it’s possible that you don’t have any compression software and you have to install one. Anything compressing into .zip files will do 
Adding brushes
In all versions of Photoshop the ways of adding brushes are similar.
How to add brushes without starting Photoshop
This is the fastest way 
You just have to copy your brushes (.abr files) into the Photoshop brushes folder: Program Files > Adobe > Photoshop (7.0 CE or CS or CS2 etc.) > Presets > Brushes. Then your new brushes will load automatically when starting Photoshop. You can find them from menu panel in Brushes window and you can choose to add brushes to existing ones (click Append) or replace them (click OK)
If you copy .abr files while working in Photoshop, they’ll appear the next time you start the software.
How to add brushes when Photoshop is open?
You just have to load them
1. Choose the Brush Tool and then click on the down-arrow to open the Brush Preset picker
2. Click on a small right-arrow in the upper-right corner of the box. Another menu panel should appear. Choose Load Brushes and locate on your computer brushes you’d like to add. Open the .abr file and now your new brushes set is ready to use
There is the second way of adding brushes in Photoshop. Actually it’s just another place, cos the way is similar
You can open Brushes window (usually it is open by default in the upper-right corner of the Photoshop workspace). Then choose a small arrow next to Brushes and Load Brushes
Where can I find cool brushes?
Here on this site! Just go to Photoshop Brushes category and have fun
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June 1st, 2007 at 4:55 pm
just wanted to say thanks for the gimp brushes– they’re great. I recently jumped into doing larger design and none of my brushes worked for me any more. And it’s sometimes tough to find good ones for Gimp. Thanks!
June 5th, 2007 at 11:34 am
i can’t load my downloaded brush.=[
June 5th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
I loaded my brushes to photoshop 6.0 but the file is not compatible to Photoshop. Please help!!
June 5th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
I’m sorry
, all brushes were created in Photoshop 7.0 and they should be compatible with higher versions, but unfortunately they won’t work with lower ones. I’ll think about creating brushes for lower versions, but I cannot promise anything now.
June 7th, 2007 at 9:32 am
I just wanted to say thank you so much for making these wonderful brushes available to us all to use
Much appreciated!
June 9th, 2007 at 2:17 am
whats ARA file??? I can’t load it into photoshop cs2
June 9th, 2007 at 10:42 am
ARA file? Where did you get that? Maybe you mean RAR? You won’t load it to Photoshop cos it’s archive file. Brushes are inside. If you have problems with .rar try to download .zip file and unpack it. Then you should be able to load your .abr files to photoshop
June 9th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
hey…where can i find or rather download a compression software for me 2 b able 2 unpack the .zip brushes?and may i know the name of that compression software?please?thanks a lot..
June 9th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
You can download 7-Zip http://www.7-zip.org/ This is freeware. Or check the right click on the downloaded brushes. maybe you already have the “unpack” option available so you don’t have to install anything
June 14th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
really nice blog and thanks for this trick of adding brushes.
I want curly brushes and looking in your site next month or so for this request..
June 15th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Can brushes, created with Adobe Photoshop CS3, be used with Adobe Photoshop CS 2?
And is there any appication which makes Brushes Made with PS CS2+ compatible with PS 7?
June 17th, 2007 at 1:50 am
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June 17th, 2007 at 10:45 am
Cool site. Thank you!
June 19th, 2007 at 1:06 am
hey man i downloaded this and its not having .abr ewxtension but .gbr extension? how to load this as a brush ?
June 19th, 2007 at 8:17 am
There are Photoshop brushes and GIMP brushes on this site.
I think you’ve downloaded the archive with GIMP brushes. You should download the file with Photoshop brushes inside.
July 1st, 2007 at 11:08 pm
hey that’s a cool site !
But I have a problem to install the Brushes,
Where can I find the Photoshop brushes folder ?
:S
I hope you could understand my question,
my english suck ! xD
Well, thanks!
July 2nd, 2007 at 8:31 am
OMFG, i’VE BEEN TRYiNG TO FiND A TUTORiAL!
HAHA, i JUST GOT PHOTOSHOP.
THANK YOU SOO FRiKEN MUCH!
July 6th, 2007 at 4:55 am
this site rocks!!! thanks so much!!!!
July 8th, 2007 at 2:56 am
hey ;; i have amazinq brushes ! // but i`m new t0 thizs’ =]
&& i have N0o0o0o idea wut i`m d0in . i d0wnl0aded da qun brushezs’ but i d0n`t see n0o unpack butt0n …. =[
can y0u email me 0r sumin ;; plz =/
July 8th, 2007 at 2:57 am
0mq . i meant t0 say y0u have amazinq brushezs` l0l =]
July 8th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
i can’t load my downloaded brush
.. plz help me…
July 12th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
thnx alot, i finaly got it to work, i have been using photoshop with the costum brushes.. and now i can actally make em alot better..
thnx for ur help.
July 15th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
Easy to understand! Thanks very much!
July 27th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
THEY WONT lOAD!
July 27th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
MACY what version of Photoshop do You have and what exactly do you do to load them?
July 28th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
does it only work for photoshop?
July 28th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
i mean. only for adobe photoshop. can we use it in other photo shop like corel?
August 30th, 2007 at 12:20 am
oh my ! i’ve been looking for skyline brushes and backgrounds FOREVER. you have gorgeous brushes, & i love your skills. Keep it up, i’ll totally refer you to friends
September 1st, 2007 at 10:52 am
hey, i have Adobe Photoshop CS2 , does it work with that?
September 1st, 2007 at 10:55 am
Also, i can`t see the unpack thing when i right click.
help plz :]
September 4th, 2007 at 12:12 am
you have GREAT brushes!! anyways…
i have trouble finding that program files folder. i’ve found it before but…it got away this time.
also, i’m not sure if i have compression software, but if i just right click and select open it seems that i can get the brush without the other stuff…
i dunno if that helps, but there ya go.
September 7th, 2007 at 9:00 am
This brush set is AWESOME! Thanks so much!!
September 16th, 2007 at 5:08 am
i couldn’t change the font color. can you help me please?????
September 16th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Good work!!!
Welcome dear friends on tne my blog with Samira!!!
September 26th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
I have Photoshop Elements 4.0. Will your brushes work with that version?
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:47 pm
hey dear this realy good thing you have provided to us thnx
October 7th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Hey,
I think you brushes are very nice especially the floral ones. I think designers should be recognized for their work so if I use your brushes in any of my designs I will reference you for sure!
Cheers,
October 10th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
It is nice article! Thanks, good info!
October 13th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
I downloaded the 7-zip – how do you use it?
October 18th, 2007 at 3:34 am
it’s really useful…thanks very much easy to understand…
November 6th, 2007 at 6:22 am
huwaaaaaaaaaaaaaa,,why i can’t archieve ur brush??i want it so bad..T.T
November 16th, 2007 at 8:36 am
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE ADOBE BRUSHES TUTORIAL! <3
November 19th, 2007 at 12:50 am
I have photo explosion and I can’t upload brushes what do I do?
December 14th, 2007 at 3:25 am
Thank you for sharing this!!
December 15th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
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December 20th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
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January 5th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
I have got a problem. I can?t load my downloaded brushes. I unpacked them but they not work.
I put them into presets>brushes…
Do you know what is wrong?
January 13th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
If someone have this problem:
“you download the brushes and put them in preset>brushes but when you try to load them it says the folder is empty”
I had this problem and placed the brushes in a totally different folder example my documents and then it suddenly worked!
hope I can help someone though my english is poor
February 2nd, 2008 at 1:39 pm
I have photoshop 7.0 and I downloaded brushes but I can`t put them in photoshop, it says file is not compatible. When I want to put them via C: program files: photoshop:patterns- I can`t find brushes anywhere. I`m desperate.
February 8th, 2008 at 1:37 am
Hey!
What if I’m a Macintosh user, will ther load in my computer??? I have Adobe CS2 in a Mac Book Pro running Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)!
Thanks!
February 16th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
thanks… it really help me
February 22nd, 2008 at 4:36 pm
omg i love you! thank you so much! <<33 *hug*
March 14th, 2008 at 12:24 am
omg yes awsome i got the wings there awsome took awhile to figure out but there purfect thnx
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:17 am
Thank you so much for the brushes, they’re wonderful tools. It’s very very kind of you to share this.
April 4th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
hey.
i can’t “unpack” the zipped folder.
it doesn’t have anythinq that says you can unpack it.
how can i unpack it without the button not beinq there?
April 5th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
thanks for the short tutorial, it really help me out in so many ways…
I’m just starting out in school right now with a Photo Shop CS3 class, and I need all the help I can get.
Cool Beans
April 27th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Rar files u have to download a program Winrar is the name .
Here is a link to download it http://www.rarlabs.com/download.htm
u can use that one or search for it type “how to extract rar files”, or “winrar downloads”
u install it then if it says something if u wanna buy it a pop up window ignore it just close it ^^ it works even thou it tells u to buy it (it’s annoying everytime u wanna extract somethin it pops out so don’t be alarmed)
then u click on the folder of the download of the brushes. It should look like an emoticon of 4 lil books stacked open it then say u want to extract it. (second icon from the left “Extract to”) From there u can extract it to any folder u want or the desktop.
Then u open photoshop go to EDIT->PRESET MANAGER->click LOAD-> then click where u um extracted the brushes then—>click LOAD and they should appear then click –>DONE
and u r done ^^
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:27 pm
thank you for your help, nice tip
May 6th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
hey there…..
awesome stuff..just one big lil problem…i’ve been downloading brushes on to my mac book …but its all super pixelated!
what could be the issue…
cheers
May 21st, 2008 at 9:33 pm
hi
first-thank you for sharing your time and talents. i see you’ve helped a lot of people
i am frustrated b/c i have the same prob as everyone else it seems-i cannot load the brushes into my elements 4.0 . I collected the brushes i have downloaded, put them into a folder, put that folder into program files-preset-brushes…but they don’t appear. i also tried the other way; opening the drop down menu in brushes and selecting “load”, finding my folder-but when i get that far nothing happens. hmmmm…… i’m missing something. i haven’t unzipped or unpacked anything. i will read up on that. you have to understand i am new to all of this and i so desperately want to learn more! i feel great everytime i learn one more new trick b/c it takes so much to be self taught! i know there is an easy answer but have to figure it out on my own mostly. thanks for any help
May 25th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
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May 29th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Can anyone tell me if brushes created in CS3 can be somehow converted to be used in Photoshop 7???
I would appreciate any help or advice.
Thanks
July 6th, 2008 at 6:31 am
thank you so much for your help! I’m new to Photoshop ^_^
July 14th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
I don’t understand how to get to Program Files > Adobe > Photoshop (7.0 CE or CS or CS2 etc.) > Presets > Brushes.
I’m new to all this… please help?
August 4th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
thanks a lot!!!
September 6th, 2008 at 4:43 am
These brushes are the best and they were easy to load. Thank you soooooo much!!
September 18th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Thanks!
September 27th, 2008 at 7:25 am
Thank you!!! They are more than beautiful. And thanks for telling how to load them !
November 3rd, 2008 at 1:10 pm
lol i’ve been lookin everywhere for this!! thanx alot! helped me alot!
November 10th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Thanks very much for the great brushes! I had to make a postcard on the tiniest of budgets and it looks great! thanks again, and I will watch your site from now on! Danny
December 1st, 2008 at 10:00 am
I loaded in all the brushes i had.. when i closed it and tried to use photoshop 7.0 again (reopening it) my brushes weren’t there. I did both manners that were suggested above and they never save to the pallets so i can close out photoshop and then reopen… am i missing something here ?? please help before i rip out all my hair and throw out photoshop for good
December 14th, 2008 at 6:37 am
thankes all toturials very good
December 16th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Thank you so MUCH for sharing!!! The snowflakes are beautiful!
December 21st, 2008 at 6:18 am
I’m late to this, but I just wanted to point out that these work quite nicely in Photoshop Elements 2.0. Excellent work! Now I want to design some of my own…
December 22nd, 2008 at 1:43 am
thanks a lot for this tutorial. God job
January 8th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
ummmm i have a question babs how do i save my brushes so i can share them like u do i dont want to share image packs i know how to do that n make ur own brushes when i unzip the RAR it shows the brush icon for Photoshop thas ABR* I tryed to save em this way but i cant find that file type as 1 to save under can ya help babes?? I have asked this q many times n have been given the run around by many ppls or they keep misunderstanding my question or dont choose to help i keep gettin told to go to D.A n thas not what m askin for plz help kuz i have made some lovely brushes n id so love to share them for free
February 6th, 2009 at 12:38 am
Hi. I did what you said and the brushes are added to photoshop but I cannot use them because I click on them and it doesn’t do anything! Can you help me please???
Answer to my email.
Regards.
February 17th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Im very new at this and my question is…
when i downloaded the zip folder and unzip them, i get jpeg/gif images.. and i dont see any .abr … am i missing a step here somewhere?
February 17th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Nevermind, I got it ^_^ thank u!
March 2nd, 2009 at 9:08 am
I downloaded a set of piercing brushes online and I cant figure out how to use them D=
I have photoshop 7.0 and im using windows vista
help???
March 7th, 2009 at 2:57 am
this is so COOL!!thanx for the freebies and d tutorial…cheers buddy
March 15th, 2009 at 3:01 am
Thanks!
March 20th, 2009 at 7:52 am
i have photoshop cs2. where i got download a brushes with ABR? not zip!! someone please help me…………
Lily
April 9th, 2009 at 9:53 am
thx bnget nh buat brusesnya…
klw lw naya cara” masukin tulisan tribal di photosop gmna???
mksh bngt nh
June 16th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
^^ Thank you for these brushes! They’re just cool!
June 19th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
thanks….!!!!!
June 29th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Hello. My photoshop doesnt look like that at all ! It feels like I don’t have the “normal” photoshop (I have Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0) but my friends do have the same photoshop programs as me, but theirs look “normal” so I can’t understand how to do this …
August 3rd, 2009 at 8:40 pm
I also have a question. I loaded the brushes into my PS CS 4 and I can use the brushes as much as I want BUT… the glittering-brushes I add to my program do not glitter. They look the same as the usual brushes. Can you, please, help me.
August 17th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
thanx a lot . i use this brush too build a business card
August 29th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
i uploaded it, but i can’t get to them, i try to go to the brushes menu, but i can’t find it.
September 4th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
i love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!tnx..lol
September 15th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
when i upload brushes on photoshop it says cannot load as not compatible why is this and is there any way to fix it?
help please
thanks
January 29th, 2010 at 8:58 am
WOWZA!!!! ITS AMAZING!!! THANK U!!!