Archive for August, 2010
Today I’ve got a great set of hand-stained paper textures for you. Paper textures are some of the most prevalent resources around and for good reason, they are one of the most useful kinds of textures. You can never have to much of a good thing, right? I hope you have as much fun using these textures as I had creating them. Enjoy!
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A long, long time ago I wrote a detailed tutorial on how to make a Photoshop brush. Today, I want to show how to make a texture brush. It’s one of my favorite ways to add texture to a design, without the need to mess with merging images and blending modes on top of that. Let’s get started.
Today I’ve got another set of nebula grunge textures for you. As with a lot of my other grunge textures, these were made in Photoshop by combining several different textures, in this case one of them being a copyright-free nebula image. I had a lot of fun making these and I hope you can find some unique uses for them. Enjoy!
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I’ve got a quick Photoshop 101 tip for print media. This can also apply to Illustrator, but I just filed it under Photoshop. We should all know by now that RGB documents are meant for screens, and CMYK documents are meant for printing. Therefore, when you print a CMYK document and you need a really rich black it’s important to remember one little teeny tiny thing: 100% K isn’t the blackest black you can get. More after the jump.
I have some very Hi-Res freebies for you today. This is a set of Photoshop brushes meant for making it easy to add texture to your artwork. It’s an assorted set and, as you can see below includes a wide variety of different styles of textures. All brushes are 2500px! I haven’t released a brush set in a while, so I thought I’d kick the week off right :)
One of the things that I’ve noticed over the course of the last two years of shooting textures is that a surface can look completely different when wet than what it looks like dry. Take concrete for example, rain really helps to bring out the contrast. I feel wet concrete makes far better textures than dry concrete. Wood is another prime example. Moisture really helps to bring out the details in the wood grain. I hope you enjoy them!
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Talk about a priceless time saver! John over at Photoshop Style a Day contacted me recently about his new site. They give away a new Photoshop style each day and we’re talking top quality stuff here. I’m sure I’m not the only one that has downloaded styles in bulk, but I think the idea of having a new style each day is nice. You can keep going back and get something new each time. Photoshop Style a Day is a new launch, so the collection isn’t huge yet, but like I said, top quality stuff. I can’t wait to see this resource grow, and I thought there would be plenty of BittBox readers out there that would enjoy this site as well. You can also submit your own style to be featured and shared with the world if you like :)
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