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Creating Grunge Brushes

Brushes are a very nice way to create a grunge effect. They are simple to use, and believe it or not, they are simple to create. I use them all the time in web design or just simple photo manipulations. Anyways, you probably don’t really care where I use them; so let’s begin.

Alright so you’ve got photoshop open, now its time to open up your browser {which should be Firefox}, and search for images using keywords such as dirt, rocks, bark, etc. Anything earthy that you think may work as a brush. I used the keyword “dirt” on google images to come up with this image:

dirt

At this point you are probably wondering how this is a brush. Well, as it stands now, its not. You need to change the levels before you can turn it into an amazing grunge brush. Follow the following instructions:

Image > Adjustments > Levels

Enter the following settings:

88 .29 255

Now you should have something that looks like this:

grunge3

Now select the magic wand tool {}. *NOTE* you can simply select the magic wand tool by pressing the ‘w’ key Set it to the following settings:

Tolerance: 10

Now click on the black part of the image. You should have something that looks like this:

selected

Now hit delete. After hitting delete you need to desaturate the brush.

CTRL + SHIFT + U

The selected region should be gone and your image should look similar to this:

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