I want to show you an easy and quick way to make a grunge-textured background in Photoshop. Of course, this isn’t the only way, but it’s not hard to do if you have a decent set of brushes to work with.

If you find yourself without a decent set of grunge brushes, you can download my Hi-Res Splatter Brushes and Hi-Res Watercolor I and II, here on BittBox. They aren’t necessarily grunge brushes, but they are very large and detailed, and I used them to make all of the examples you see below in this tutorial.

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I started to make Photoshop brush sets here on BittBox, and everyone seems to love them, so I’m gonna keep on pumping them out whenever I can. I actually took leaves from my own back yard and scanned them to make this Hi-Res Photoshop Brush set. There are 10 brushes in the set, and most of them are 2500px in size. Enjoy, and don’t forget, you can post your artwork to the BittBox User Showcase Group@Flickr to show all of us what you’ve come up with! Enjoy the brushes. Download and installation instructions below.

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I’ve found a ton of Photoshop tutorials on how to do this, but you would be surprised at how simple and easy it is to get a “glossy” text effect in vector using Illustrator. Don’t get out of your seat, because this won’t take long at all.

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