The use of rust and texture in design is very popular right now, and a good set of brushes can make it easy to add this style to your own work. Designm.ag showcases 13 of the best packs of free Rust brushes for Photoshop users.
TripwireMagazine provides a collection of high-quality Photoshop smoke effect tutorials and brushes. Smoke effects can be useful in different types of design and artwork. If you need smoke, you’ll find it here.
CreativeNerds present the ultimate collection of Watercolour and Paint brush sets featuring over 45 sets and 1500 high quality Photoshop brushes, an essential resource or all designers to enjoy and use.
Photoshop brushes give you quite a bit of creative freedom and don’t take much time to create. ColorBurned has released another set of 25 lens flare brushes for Photoshop that can be used to create an endless number of flares for your designs.
The effective use of brushes is an essential skill for anyone who wants to be a skilled Photoshop designer. There are countless brush packs that you can download for free, and other that you can buy, but sometimes you will want to use a brush that doesn’t yet exist. In these situations you may want to make your own brushes. Whether you want to learn more about creating brushes for your own use or for distribution, the tutorials featured at Designm.ag will give you the skills you need.
Since one of Dawghouse’s favorite design styles is grunge, here is a set of Free Hi-Resolution Heavy Scratches Photoshop Brushes. The set comes with 10 different scratches brushes which would be perfect for any of your designs with a worn-out, grunge or vintage theme.
Understanding how to manage your collections of Photoshop brushes is essential if you want to learn how to use them effectively. Learning how to clear and then load a new set of brushes into the Brushes Palette is just the first step. This quick video tutorial at Colorburned demonstrates how to clear your brush palette of the default brushes and then how to load a completely new set of brushes so that you can work unobstructed.
If you are one of those designers who finds retro fashion fascinating, NaldzGraphics presents a set of Photoshop brush resources that you can download and use for your designs. 500+ Free Photoshop Retro Brushes are compiled for your perusal.
These splatter brushes at PhotoshopTutorials were created with watercolor dried on lightweight paper to simulate the look of dried blood. Like their Glossy Blood Splatter Photoshop brushes, these can be used to create blood, paint, or paint in UV light. This set contains 117 blood splatter brushes.
Watercolor effects are a pretty popular trend in web and graphic design right now. To come up with such an effect, don’t think you really have to paint on an actual canvas and scan it. You can pretty much achieve the same effect using Photoshop brushes, plus, you can probably save more time doing so! In this freebie, SixRevisions are giving away sevenHigh-Resolution Heavy Watercolor Spatter brushes to add to your design resources. Paint away!
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