For nina79, who wants to get a jump start on her winter holiday icon projects. :) There's 40+ brushes in various fonts; winter and winter holiday themes with a little religious diversity:



» JBR (PSP 7)
» pspBrush (PSP X)
» ABR (PS CS2)
» Image Pack (40+)
» GIMP
» All-In-One Image Pack (png)



And, in case you missed it, these brushes were also used on the examples in this resource post.

Edited to add the fonts used to make these brushes are 1) Pussycat, at 8 point and kerning either 50 or 100; 2) Violation, at 9/10 point with no kerning; 3) Porky's at 10 point and kerning either 50 or 100; 4) Edwardian Script at 18 point and no kerning; 5) Jane Austen at either 8, 10, or 12 point, with no kerning; 6) Jenkins v2.0 at either 12 or 14 point and usually no kerning, though sometimes I set the kerning to 25; and 7) Georgia, all caps, at either 5 or 6 point. Kerning for this one is usually 150, but sometimes I'll use 50, 100, or 250 -- and sometimes I'll go crazy and italicize the text. ;)

For PSP users, I add text on a new layer, blend mode normal at 100% opacity, and then I duplicate the layer and lower the opacity between 30% and 50%. I sometimes sharpen the second layer. All this darkens the lighter tiny text and makes it a little easier to read.

Thanks to nina79 for converting oodles of little images to the CS PS2 abr file!

Edited add thanks to lied_ohne_worte for posting the GIMP version of these brushes at here over at pstogimpbrushes!