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Posted At : April 18, 2008 11:22 AM | Posted By : Nicole Rutter

Photoshop Brushes - Grunge City



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Photoshop brushes can be a very helpful and powerful thing if you practice a little bit. It's all about combining different elements to create just about anything. Before I started using Photoshop brushes I used to draw everything out as you know this can be very time consuming. For things like clouds, splatters of paint, grass, etc... Photoshop brushes are the way to go. There will of course be times when it is just easier to draw out your own graphics.

To load Photoshop brushes I created a folder in My Documents called Photoshop Brushes. I do this because if I load a brush at work and want to take it home its easier for me to access.
Open Photoshop and click on your brush tool. Open up your brushes and click on the arrow located on the right hand side. From there you will click on Load brushes. Find the location and your ready to go.



The above image was created with Photoshop brushes. I go through brusheezy's site about once a month to check out the new Photoshop brushes. When your starting out using brushes it is best to just start playing around with them. I use a lot of opacity settings, shadows and things like that when I am using brushes.

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Posted At : April 10, 2008 12:54 PM | Posted By : Nicole Rutter

Photoshop Carbon Fiber background

I have been wondering for some time now how to create a good looking carbon fiber background. Last night I was playing around with some color combinations to get the carbon fiber to look right. So lets get started.

Open a new photoshop file and make the file 8x8. I like my carbon fiber a little loose so you can tell its carbon fiber. Some people like it to look a little tighter so if this is you make yours 4x4. Your going to zoom in all the way so you can see what your doing(Ctl +). Using your select tool fill in the following colors.

#242424
#1C1C1C
#1D1D1D
#151515
#1A1A1A
#222222
#131313
#1B1B1B



Its hard to see right now but your carbon fiber pattern is now in place. You should have something like the image below.


Now lets set our pattern. Go to edit-->define pattern. Name your pattern anything of your choice. I named my pattern Carbon. Now that we have our pattern lets open up a new Photoshop file. Go to file--> new. Set your width to 600 and your height to 500 (or any size of your choice).

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