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Free Texture Tuesday: Hand-Stained PaperAugust 31

Today I’ve got a great set of hand-stained paper textures for you. Paper textures are some of the most prevalent resources around and for good reason, they are one of the most useful kinds of textures. You can never have to much of a good thing, right? I hope you have as much fun using these textures as I had creating them. Enjoy!

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Free Texture Tuesday: BricksAugust 24

Looking back through past Texture Tuesday posts I was surprised to see that I haven’t posted a set of brick textures for you guys. Brick textures come in handy for any sort of grungy or urban designs you may be working on. I’m looking for some fresh texture ideas for future posts, so if you have any requests or thoughts just leave them in the comments. Thanks!

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Making a Photoshop Brush Part II: Texture BrushesAugust 23

A long, long time ago I wrote a detailed tutorial on how to make a Photoshop brush. Today, I want to show how to make a texture brush. It’s one of my favorite ways to add texture to a design, without the need to mess with merging images and blending modes on top of that. Let’s get started.

Start with a cool texture image.

Free Texture Tuesday: Nebula Grunge 2August 17

Today I’ve got another set of nebula grunge textures for you. As with a lot of my other grunge textures, these were made in Photoshop by combining several different textures, in this case one of them being a copyright-free nebula image. I had a lot of fun making these and I hope you can find some unique uses for them. Enjoy!

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Photoshop 101: True Black (CMYK)August 12

I’ve got a quick Photoshop 101 tip for print media. This can also apply to Illustrator, but I just filed it under Photoshop. We should all know by now that RGB documents are meant for screens, and CMYK documents are meant for printing. Therefore, when you print a CMYK document and you need a really rich black it’s important to remember one little teeny tiny thing: 100% K isn’t the blackest black you can get. More after the jump.

Believe it or not, when working in CMYK for print media, 0 0 0 100 is not the best black you can get. If you have a keen eye, you might be able to tell by the image above.

If you’ve ever printed out a file or document or design (a complex illustrator document, for example) and most of the blacks were black, and one or two of the shapes