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Freebie Friday: 8 Crisp Dynamic Grunge Brushes

This set of brushes offers you eight unique and energetic grunge shapes. I created these by picking out some of experimental ink/food coloring texture shapes, vectorizing them to create crisper edges, and then converting them to PS brushes. Each one is over 2400px wide.

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Free Texture Tuesday: 5 Unique Cloud Textures

Today I’m giving some cloud photographs that are a bit different than the traditional cloud texture photographs. I shot these back in October and have used them in a few of my own pieces but never released them as a collection. I think their uses are endless, particularly because they aren’t obvious cloud shapes that will be instantly recognizable. Each one is 4500×3000.


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How To Create A Set Of PS Brushes From A Single Texture Photo

Creating Photoshop brushes is rather easy. But, I often find that brush sets lack consistency and are often created form various textures or sources. I like consistency.

I think a great set of brushes isn’t just a matter of throwing a bunch of brushes that kinda look similar together in a set, but rather create a set where each brush complements each other—this way if one of the brushes doesn’t work for what you’re trying to achieve, another brush in the set might since they’re created from the same source.

Start With A Photo

First of all we’ll need a high-resolution image. I find it works best with a photo of a texture rather than something like a landscape or portrait, for obvious reasons.

For the purpose of this tutorial I’ve used one of my own photos taken with a Nikon D90.

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Freebie Friday: 6 Abstract Lines Brushes

Happy Friday everyone! Today I’m releasing this set of unique and tough to define brushes. The source for these was a microscopic piece of pollen. Up close the strands looked like barbed wire. After photographic it, I brought the images into Illustrator and Live Traced each one, so the edges are very defined. Each brush is 2500×1800, hope you enjoy.
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Free Texture Tuesday: Grab Bag 14

Today’s grab bag of textures contains a couple old book covers and three other various textures. Each one will add a different dimension to your designs.


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Freebie Friday: 5 Simple Fabric Brushes

This collection of five subtle hi-res fabric brushes will add some natural surfacing to your work. Each brush is 2500×2500.

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