Using brushes in .rar format (7.x version) in cs3

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Jean_Terman
Sep 30, 2008
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I found just the brushes I was looking for in the exchange tonight but they are for photoshop version 7.x. I cannot get my photoshop cs3 product to recognize them. If anyone knows how to make this work, I would really appreciate it. Really. Thank you.
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JJ
John Joslin
Sep 30, 2008
RAR is a compression format like ZIP.

You have to unzip them. Free tools like WinRAR are available.

Google it for a free download near you. 🙂
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Phosphor
Sep 30, 2008
* .rar indicates that it’s a compressed archive, similar to a compressed archive format like *.zip.

You’ll need to expand the .rar archive first, then you’ll see the .abr brushes file.

Have you tried double-clicking on the file while it’s sitting on your desktop? A windows OS-native utility should expand it. If not, the utility at the following link should do it:

<http://www.izarc.org/>
JJ
John Joslin
Sep 30, 2008
Nothing in XP would do it. I downloaded WinRAR.
JT
Jean_Terman
Sep 30, 2008
Thank you both! I thought I had tried everything but I didn’t even think to see if that was a compressed format. Sitting here feeling a little less smart… 😉 Downloading WINRAR now. Thanks again!
JJ
John Joslin
Sep 30, 2008
🙂
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Phosphor
Sep 30, 2008
WinRAR’s common and trusted, and costs money.

IZArc’s less well-known, but opens more formats and is free (as in DonationWare).

Hmm…
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dave_milbut
Sep 30, 2008
i’ve been meaning to ask… what the heck is that thing anyway phos? a smiley licking it’s eyeball or what?
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Phosphor
Sep 30, 2008
It’s the Favicon I created for my usually neglected SparkBox <http://sparkbox.blogspot.com> blog.

Smiling YinYang emoticon/bullet/general purpose happy fun smiley!

It was tougher to create—cleanly and at such a small size—than I originally imagined it might be when I first conceived it.
JJ
John Joslin
Sep 30, 2008
Sorry to corect you Phos.

WinRar is FREE for a given number of uses. Then it stops working.

..RAR files are so RARe I never reached the limit.

Geddit? RAR – RARe? Oh well. 🙁
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Phosphor
Sep 30, 2008
" Sorry to corect you Phos. "

No worries…I just looked at the licensing page and saw US$29 for a single user license. Just like Stuffit, and QuickTime, the "free" qualities are made a little tougher to find out about, for some reason.
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Mathias_Vejerslev
Sep 30, 2008
7-zip is free and nice.
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Phosphor
Sep 30, 2008
".RAR files are so RARe I never reached the limit. "

Depends where you soil your online boots.

In some regions of the ‘tubes, .rar is extremely common. That "works-for-awhile-then-it-doesn’t" thing might prove to be a little annoying.
JJ
John Joslin
Sep 30, 2008
So you see what a clean-living boy I am! 😉

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