Yay~ My first brush set! I can't make circles, okay. >,>
I've always had a problem with doing things such as feathered wings. Why? Because feathers take waaaay too long to do individually. So, alright, I'd go to find a brush to do the work for me. But, lo and behold, they just weren't what I wanted. So I made my own. It's the same image rotated on 22.5 degrees.
This is mainly for my own use if my computer decides to delete everything again, but feel free to download it and use it wherever. Be sure to give me some credit somewhere in the comments, and I'd appreciate a link to where you used the brushes so I can see your work.
Brushes made by Me. Give credit if you use them. Made on/for Adobe Photoshop CS2 Note: I've been told this also works on GIMP! Note (Jan. 30/12): There might be an issue of using this with Gimp 2.0.
You click the download button on the right, and extract the file if it's in a .zip file. Eventually you'll get some brush file (I can't remember the extention). In Photoshop, in the brush menu, there should be an option to import a brush file. You'll find it eventually. Then you just select the right file and it'll load into Photoshop. Sorry for the terrible explanation, I haven't used Photoshop in a long time. I'm sure you can find a tutorial for it somewhere if this doesn't help.