First thought: I've got mixed feelings. It may have a lot in quantity, but in quality, i wont know until I finish downloading it and crack it open. I might only use 2% of what's in here.
During installation: I wish I could have selected the things I wanted the installer to drop onto my HDD -- for example, if I only wanted some new brushes. The fonts I especially don't want, going down the list, fonts like "CocaCola" are way too useless compared to a really attractive typeface.
After installation: Cleanliness isn't separated from dirt. It looks like a lot of brushes were made from low quality JPEGs which were not even reconstructed to be whole or cleaned up. The hand-written font group for example gives you rectangular block selections of handwriting on paper with hanging letterform butts on the top. The brush groups have non-categorized names or the most important word doesn't always come first, which makes a "genre" of brushes harder to find. The most disappointing aspect of the brushes was that none of them were built with the brush builder, so the spacing for each brush is exactly the same. Grunge brushes don't take advantage of random rotation or opacity control from pen pressure. All this will have to be added manually by you -- and you'll have to save the preset yourself into some other list of "good" brushes.
Poor installation process. Poor quality brushes. I think it's clear what these folks are all about, getting you excited about getting a lot of stuff, whether it's good or not. If you find the pack useful, great! At first glance, too me, it looks like they're asking you to do a lot of extra work to make their resources worth using in a real situation.
so... If you want a bunch of cool fonts, pick out ones you actually like: www.dafont.com
If you want cool brushes, effect presets, or textures, you could try modifying some of the ones in this pack or just make your own.
Shine and shine. :: [old cell]
(Edited by Bmud on 11-29-2005 06:35)
posted 11-29-2005 05:13
Your Welcome....