Creating Grunge Brushes Tutorial

[Diana]

I came upon this interesting tutorial. I haven't tried it yet, although I intend to. But I thought I'd share it with you all.
http://veerle.duoh.com/blog/comments/creating_grunge_brushes/

The author also gives a link to a great site for downloading texture to use for brushes, or whatever, here...
http://www.textureking.com/index.php/

Diana

[hukari]

Thanks, Diana, these sites both look great!

[Diana]

I finally took a few minutes to follow the tutorial and made myself a set of Grunge Brushes. I thought if I made them in strips, they could be stamped along the edges of photos.

Here's a photo I added one of them to:
http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1Mv2b6K2I2viQLIoVdtOxcmF0s2B4v0_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1Mv2b6K2I2viQLIoVdtOxcmF0s2B4v0)

It's really fun making them. After I got started by following the tutorial for the first couple, I found it was just as effective to create a document 3" x .25" at 300 ppi and use other brushes to stamp around on my strip and then use the eraser with different brushes to make them even grungier to get some unique grunge effects.

Here's the whole set of 10 grunge strip brushes I made.

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1FIyHdwQOHIPyyn9SfggJdLQUixk_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1FIyHdwQOHIPyyn9SfggJdLQUixk)

Diana

[msbrad]

Diana,
Thank you for the link.
You sure do :D find some of the best places!!!
m