Posts Tagged with Texture
I give away a LOT of stuff here on BittBox, mainly textures and brushes. The truth is, many of the textures are manufactured using recycled images I already have hanging around on my hard drive. I want to share one of my favorite ways to quickly add a little extra to a rather uninteresting texture, without using Photoshop brushes.
A week or two ago, I gave away some textures I called “Simply Worn.” I was asked by many of you to make a tutorial on how I made those, and here it is. Best viewed fullscreen.
Photoshop: How to Make a Subtle Worn Texture from Jay Hilgert on Vimeo.
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.
I recently received an email from Zosia asking me an Illustrator question. Zosia had a vector shape of Africa in Illustrator and wanted to fill the shape with a texture. It’s not as difficult as you might think, but for those of you new to Illustrator, this is a very useful thing to know. You can’t actually “clip” or “cut out” the shape from your texture, but it’s very easy to make a mask, and you still get the same effect.
![[Ask BB] How to Make a Clipping Mask in Illustrator](http://www.bittbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/clipping_mask_1.jpg "[Ask BB] How to Make a Clipping Mask in Illustrator")
It seems that most of you seem to LOVE my Photoshop brush sets, so this inspires me to make more. In this set you’ll find grungy textures, as well as some rocky cracks. There are 12 brushes in the set, and they are all 2500px. Available for CS3, CS1, and in PNG format for everyone else. All of these brushes were made from the images of the textures I gave away in a previous post. Hope you like them, and don’t forget to upload your designs to the BittBox User Showcase group over at Flickr. Brush previews after the jump.
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