Many of you might remember my Free High-Res Grungy Paper Textures I gave away a while back. I had a lot of requests for a tutorial on how I actually made those textures, so I here we are. Fire up good ‘ol Photoshop, have a scanner handy, and let’s dive in, shall we :)

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I want to share a very useful tip with all of you who have ever wanted to throw your computer across the room because of Photoshop for one reason or another. It’s inevitable, every once in a blue moon, software can just make your day a living hell for no obvious reason. It can be anything from the Layers palette won’t show up, to menu items grayed out when they shouldn’t be. I want to show you a quick way to put your problems behind you without having to re-install Photoshop.

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The folks at Sitepoint and 99Designs are making a free book available for download if you act fast. For a limited time, you can download The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques, a full version book aimed at helping web designers. Head on over and download it while it lasts. The book is packed full of techniques and best practices to help aid you in achieving web-design-nirvana.

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Adobe has just launched it’s much anticipated online version of Photoshop, dubbed Photoshop Express. It’s a Flash based editor, and has a noticeably small list of features compared to the real thing, however, that was to be expected with a web app Photoshop, especially the first run at it. The service is free and comes with 2G of storage space, as well as the ability to easily share your images around the web and import photos from some big name sites, like Facebook.

[via: Lifehacker]

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It’s Photoshop Brush time again, and I’ve got a new set of 10 high res brushes for you. These aren’t traditional spraypaint brushes, so “Messy Spraypaint” is as close as I could get to an accurate name. Most of them are 2500px, and I also included PNGs for anyone not using Photoshop. CS1 & CS3 brushes, PNGs, screenshots after the jump.

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