
Let’s see how it’s done! Preparing a Photographed Texture In this tutorial, we’re going to focus specifically on creating grunge and vintage effects using brushes made from real, photographed textures. Whether you want to make rain, snow, fog, or even hair, custom brushes are both powerful and versatile. This will keep the settings for this brush, even after you switch to using other brushes in your palette.Some of the best effects you can create in Photoshop come from making your own custom brushes. Choose ‘new brush preset’ and name your brush.

In the brush settings, apply a small spacing and be sure the angle is as desired.Draw a selection around your texture then go edit > define brush preset.Go to select > all and then delete to remove all white from your jpg. Merge the adjustments with your jpg and magic wand and area of white.Increase your contrast by utilizing the levels and brightness/contrast adjustments. Scan your textures as a black and white jpg at 300dpi.Here’s a quick overview of everything we did: 3 Simple Tricks for Unique Grit Textures tutorial.

This tutorial is perfect for beginners, so if you’re just getting started with Photoshop, be sure to read on to see it all! Pin it for later! These are settings that you can easily implement into future texture brushes, too. Once the texture is optimized, I share some of my favorite Photoshop texture brush settings. In the video, I share my scan settings and how I edit the texture before ever creating a brush with it.

This week, I’m sharing how to create a gritty photoshop texture brush using a texture we created! This texture brush can be used for borders, backgrounds, illustrations and more (tutorial on those coming soon!). A couple weeks ago, I shared 3 tricks for creating unique grit textures.
