Rough Edges - Photoshop Brush Set
Lately I have developed a deep and twisted love for Photoshop brush sets. They are a great way of quickly and easily adding texture and depth to designs and their usage can be seen constantly on the web.
I think texture and depth are particularly important in web design. Graphic designers get the texture and feel in the material they print on and often flat colours seem to work better in graphic design as lighting and texture come naturally. I think web designers often need to use allot of gradients and layering things up to give depth and makes things tactile, authentic.
This is where Photoshop brushes come into their own. You can of course build things up with images but brushes give a quick and fluid advantage where you can just stamp texture onto the mask of the layer or create imagery when you can’t find the right royalty free image.
Here are some recent examples I’ve seen Photoshop brushes used:
Adding Photoshop brushes is easy. Once you’ve downloaded some, all you have to do is open your brush pallette (F5), click on the little arrow top right and then click on ‘Load Brushes’, the new brushes will then be appended to your list.
Here is a great site for free brush downloads - http://www.brusheezy.com/.
I’ve also made my own brush set, you can download it here: http://www.brusheezy.com/brush/639-Rough-Edges
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Comment by Roger — Thursday May 8th, 2008 @ 05:41
hi there, very nice set of brushes. would you be kind enough to showcase it qbrushes ?
Comment by Qbrushes — Wednesday May 21st, 2008 @ 11:40
Thank you for your website
I made on photoshop backgrounds for myspace or youtube and ect..
my backgrounds:http://tinyurl.com/6ptkxd
all the best and thank you again!
Comment by createmo — Sunday November 2nd, 2008 @ 12:55
are these brushes for use in greeting cards?
Comment by emily — Wednesday January 20th, 2010 @ 23:29
Emily - yes, feel free to use for commercial use
Comment by Rich — Friday January 22nd, 2010 @ 14:33
Would it be ok for me to use those brushes for a album cover I am making for my band? They’re great and work perfectly for the type of graphics I’m trying to make.
Comment by Infinite Knowledge — Tuesday February 16th, 2010 @ 21:50
Yep no problem
Comment by Richard Stelmach — Friday February 19th, 2010 @ 10:11
Thanks a lot man, I really appreciate it.
Comment by Infinite Knowledge — Friday February 19th, 2010 @ 15:51