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It’s working now, but i have 403 Forbidden error…

It works for me now

looks great, tnx!

Cool, thanks as always. Designious is awesome for spreading the vector love…

They are lovely – it’s a shame they’re only compatible with CS3 :(

how is it possible to use and work with these files without having adobe tools?
not all are in the luck of having such great tools…

Thanks, I’m new to CS3-where would one usually unzip these files to in Illustrator?

These are beautiful! Thanks!

CT: I used to put them all in the c:/Program Files/AdobeAdobe Illustrator CS3/Presets/Brushes folder, but then that got jammed full of things that aren’t always really brushes. Just this past week I took the time to look carefully at all the great stuff I have downloaded from this and other sites. It turns out that some really are brushes, some are vector artwork to cut and paste, some are symbol packs, and some are JPG or PNG. Adobe Bridge is really helpful for viewing all the different types of files, especially those that the operating system doesn’t display as a thumbnail.

Once I had the files all sorted out, I put the ones that really are brush packs into the Brushes folder, and the symbol packs into the Symbols folder. The cut-and-paste vector artworks I moved to a higher-level folder, side-by-side with my projects folder, instead of keeping them buried six layers deep below the Program Files directory. That saves a lot of time.

I haven’t quite figured out what to do with the PNG and JPG files. Some of them are just thumbnails or sample usages of the brushes, but others (usually full backgrounds) are the finished product, which I have to convert somehow to a vector format.

I have a PC, so if you have a Mac, I don’t know where stuff is supposed to reside, but I hope you find my comments helpful.

Smashing is going down to the alphabet city.
Rubbish content lately no matter what anyone says.

Thanks for taking my input a couple of months ago! I hope to see more like these! Thank you very much!

Amazing set, thank you so much!

Great set, Thanks so much.
I can use it to creat my rainforests-plant illustrations.

they cancelled my post because i said that the link “W3 MARKUP” was not working.
It’s fixed now, i thought they thank me, instead thay cancelled it.

It looks great but ..is it possible to load those in CS2 or are they only CS3-compatible?
Thanks -

What software is best to draw ornament? I tryed in photoshop but I could not beacause to draw perfect symmetric shapes in photoshop is impossible IMHO. Thanks in advance

Awesome stuff just what i needed

Thanks for sharing, great and helpfull!

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These are really nice… thanks for these stuffs…..

Awesome Vector set..free for download.

I’ve tried using Gimp and Adobe Photoshop to open the .eps files but I can’t get the layers. I’d download a trial version of Illustrator, only it’s a huge download for my slow connection.

Is there a way for GIMP and Photoshop to import the layers properly?

Hello, I tried to download using IE7 and Firefox but It only downloads about 300kb than stops. On opening swirls-vector-illustrations archive with winrar/winzip it tells me file the is corrupted :( :(

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It’s wonderful and quite useful. Thanks.

not working for me! :(

wow,…. Thanks a lot

thaks a lot.

Hi guys,

Great work. I also use the service from http://www.yougraph.com

Muchisimas gracias !!!