We all like a little inspiration sometimes, and we all need some sometimes too. I like browsing concert posters or “informational art” as I like to call it. Pretty much anything goes in the world of poster art, so you never know what to expect (which is great) and it’s an area of the art/design world that is very rich on the visual side, not to mention the creative type treatments.

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I have another set of High-Res Photoshop Brushes fresh out of the oven for everyone. I was contacted a few days ago by Dominik Lenk over at SquawkDesign.com and he offered up some High Res scans of his for me to convert to brushes. (Thanks Dominik) I have made the brush sets available, and you can head over to SquawkDesign for the source files (jpegs) if you need them. Enjoy the brushes, and don’t forget to post your creations at the BittBox User Showcase on Flickr, if you want to strut your stuff and/or get a little feedback!

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If you are one of those lucky enough to be running Photoshop CS3, I want to show you a neat trick. In CS3 you can very easily change the color of the excess artboard! I just happened to figure this out a night or two ago, so I wanted to post about it right away.

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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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