Hi all

I just tried out something which worked quite well--thought I'd share.

As you know there's a vast and lovely range of brushes available for Photoshop, like those trendy floral, grunge, industrial, techno etc. shapes.

I was thinking--wouldn't it be great if there was a way to convert the brush shapes to vectors so that I could play with them in Xara.

Well that led me to Google, which threw up abrviewer, an open source viewer for Photoshop brushes, which also has the ability to export brushes as PNG thumbnails.
http://abrviewer.sourceforge.net/

Once the PNGs are generated, I used vector magic (http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/) to convert them to eps files, saved those as PDF from Illy, opened them up in Xara and we're in business

Cheers
Manoj