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Twitter Turn Up #2 – Textures

gwip — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:00:55 +0000

This week we’ll take a look at some of the textures found on twitter. Be sure to check out each twitter account too and see what else these designers have to offer.

@texturezine 3 Free Cardboard Textures here.

@designfeed 25 Free and High Quality Grunge Textures http://bit.ly/6jZXCL

@callumchapman Nine Seamless and Grungy Amber Textures http://bit.ly/7vrBQp

@bittbox New Blog Post: Free Texture Tuesday: Grunge Frost: I want to do some winter-themed textures in the weeks leading up… http://bit.ly/8zR6Mv

@grungetextures Just added 10 new textures to the Mud, Clay and Earth Category – http://bit.ly/8jnej8

@TUTSKING 70+ Free, Amazing, High-Quality Wood Textures for Web Design: http://bit.ly/5gIeX1

@MediaMilitia New graphic design pack just released – Rust Textures -http://su.pr/2wRs96

Five second grunge background.

gwip — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:15:14 +0000

In this post we’re going to learn how to set up your brushes in Photoshop to make quick and easy grunge backgrounds.

I’ve had a few questions on ways to use Photoshop brushes, particularly the grunge brushes. While this may be common knowledge to experienced users, this post is aimed at new users and maybe give a different perspective of the brush palette to the more experienced users.

Start by setting your foreground and background colors to the main hues that you’d like your background to represent. Next, select a detailed, high res grunge brush. If you need a good brush you can download my set here or check out the many free brushes somewhere like Brusheezy.

Once you have your brush selected set up your brush palette as shown below. We’ll start with the Shape Dynamics. We’re really only concerned with the Angle here, this will assure that your brush has some variety too it.

Next is the Scattering, pretty self explanatory. Here we’re making sure the brush isn’t clumped together leaving big spots.

Now your Dual brush, here you’ll want to select another grunge brush of similar size.

To end we’ll set up the Color options, this is where you can play a little bit. You’re main concerns are the saturation and hue. This will give you the variance in color depending on what your looking for.

That’s it, we’re done setting everything up. All you need to do now is make a few quick swipes over your canvas and within seconds you’ll have a unique grunge background.

Click below to see what I ended with.

Free grunge brushes and textures

gwip — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:01:48 +0000

Here are a few brushes and the files that they were made from. Feel free to use these however you please as long as you don’t sell them or claim them as your own.

In total, there are five hi-res brushes and 3 images of different color variations. Here’s a sample of the download pack.

Download brushes and textures.