The other day I was wandering around some back allies in my town and came across all of these cool poles that had been painted and scraped and repainted over and over again. I thought it gave these grunge textures a very cool feel, almost like an abstract acrylic painting or something. I’ve got all [...]
I wandered around town today for a few hours and shot over 600 new textures and some of my favorites from the batch are the rusty ones. Rust textures work really well when you want to add a good chunk of grunge to your designs or photos. I tried to include a nice variety in [...]
By Dan Reynolds
I. Introduction
Large or small, letters seem to inhabit their own universe. Re-arrangeable in any combination, they can spell out all conceivable messages, be they poetic, bureaucratic, or anything in between. But sometimes a text is just about its letters themselves, not an object to be read, but one to be looked at. Type [...]
I have some more experimental textures coming your way this week in the form of grungy cracks. No, not the kind found on your plumber. I’m talking about these textures that I made by layering various grunge textures on top of images of cracked concrete and walls. Hopefully you can find a cool use for [...]
I have some more free stuff! Our friends over at Designious have given me 3 Floral Mega Packs to give away this week. Each mega pack includes 10 regular packs, so it’s a large number of vectors for a single prize. Thanks to the Designious team for their generosity, and good luck everyone.
Contest Rules:
All you [...]
By James Puckett
This is the doorway to The Claremount, an apartment building in Manhattan. I think that it was built in the 1890s. Those letters over the door just reached out and grabbed me from across the street and I had a typeface coming on.
The Claremount, 229–31 East 12 St, New York.
I had been studying [...]
I know I said I was giving away 3, but I decided to go with 8 winners! Congratulations to Jason, Desjgn Playing Cards, Philip Hepler @ 316 Graphics, Angie, sasha, adone, Wade, Paul, and nate! I hope you enjoy the software and thanks to everyone for the kind comments about Brush Pilot.
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A long time ago, I was one of the eager souls awaiting the release of the original Pixelmator software. Well, that was, like I said, a long time ago and Pixelmator has made many strides since then. Currently at version 1.5, Pixelmator has too many improvements to list. Among the copious amount of new features [...]
Today we have a nice set of grunge fire safety mat textures, hopefully you can put them to good use. A big thanks goes out to Callum Chapman from CircleBox Blog for providing them, please make sure you head over there and check out his blog and say thanks! Enjoy!
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About The Author:
Caleb Kimbrough is [...]
More 3D for Fun and Function
In our last article we presented some nifty examples of what you can do with Photoshop in creating your own 3D objects. There are literally thousands of PS objects that you can download from the Internet, but the process of making your own Photoshop 3D items is not only fun [...]
