TERMS OF USE: As usual, you may use these grunge brushes for personal, noncommercial projects. Created in Photoshop CS2, these grunge brushes have resolution of around 2000 pixels and should work with any CS version of Photoshop. Also, you may try the different layer blending options in Photoshop to get better results out of these grunge brushes. These are ideal for creating grunge backgrounds in your creative projects. Remember to get creative, remember to try different textures, filters, layer modes, etc.Īfter you’re finished with making the brush, select the canvas ( ctrl+a) then in your Photoshop menus, go to Edit > Define Brush, then it will show up in your brushes.This set of grunge brushes is composed of 18 ultra high-resolution tree bark textures. You may also want to apply Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen to your brush layer, to give it a little more detail. To finish this off, get another grunge brush either you made or someone else, and brush a little bit over the edges with white as your foreground color. Looks pretty decent in my opinion, but be sure you mess around with different settings and textures. Choose the PSD that you earlier saved to your desktop. Be sure your layers are merged together, then go to Filter > Distort > Displace, using the settings shown below, or similar.Īfter you press OK (shown in the top right of the above screenshot) you’ll be asked to choose a PSD file, this is used to displace the current document. Open up your texture and save it as a PSD file onto your desktop. For this tutorial I’ve used this dirt texture that I took a few months ago. Start by finding a good texture on the internet. The next thing we need to do is apply some sort of texture to the brush. Now merge all of your layers together, so that you only have one layer. This is what my random brushing looks like: Size it up to whatever size you would like it, then brush a few blobs onto the background. Get out one of the standard soft brushes that come with Photoshop. It’s probably best to use a very large document size for this tutorial, but I’ll just use a small size for the sake of learning. This is up to you, do you want a very large brush that you can size down every time you want to use it? Or do you want a brush around 200 pixels in size so that it’s ready for use whenever you want to use it in a small document. First of all, as usual, create a new document in Photoshop.

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