make grunge brushes for photoshop
Photoshop comes with many brushes already built in, and you can go to sites such as deviantart.com or brusheezy.com to find freebies that users have submitted, however in this tutorial we are going to look into designing our own set of brushes.
Coffee and Grunge, Two of my Favorite Things
Coffee and Grunge, Two of my Favorite Things
Coffee stains and grunge splatters have become staples in much of grunge design. The great part about a grunge theme is that there are no rules! This gives the designer a ton of freedom. We are going to create coffee stain and splatter brushes that can be used again and again in our designs.
Brew Up Some Coffee and Let’s Get Started
Brew Up Some Coffee and Let’s Get Started
Put on the Maxwell House (my fav) and brew up a cup
Find some paper, preferably textured paper (it makes more interesting stains).
Grab some different sized mugs, and a straw
This is the fun part! Spill some coffee on a hard surface and get the bottom of the mug wet, then place the cup on the paper. Try different amounts of coffee, different shapes and so on. Also for the splatters, use the straw and drip the coffee randomly onto the paper. Once you’ve got some cool stains and splatters, take a rest; we need to let the coffee dry. These are the some of the stains that I created:
Find some paper, preferably textured paper (it makes more interesting stains).
Grab some different sized mugs, and a straw
This is the fun part! Spill some coffee on a hard surface and get the bottom of the mug wet, then place the cup on the paper. Try different amounts of coffee, different shapes and so on. Also for the splatters, use the straw and drip the coffee randomly onto the paper. Once you’ve got some cool stains and splatters, take a rest; we need to let the coffee dry. These are the some of the stains that I created:
Coffee Stains
Scanning and Preparing the Image
Scan the image in at a nice high resolution.
Bring the image into photoshop and desaturate it. You should make your brushes black and white, you can apply color to them later when you use them. To desaturate the image click image>adjustments>desaturate
Next let’s adjust the levels, to exaggerate the contrast. Click image>adjustments>levels to bring up the levels window. Bring the black slider and the white slider towards the middle until you get the contrast you like. Leave some gray in the stains; it will make your brushes more interesting in the end.
Scanning and Preparing the Image
Scan the image in at a nice high resolution.
Bring the image into photoshop and desaturate it. You should make your brushes black and white, you can apply color to them later when you use them. To desaturate the image click image>adjustments>desaturate
Next let’s adjust the levels, to exaggerate the contrast. Click image>adjustments>levels to bring up the levels window. Bring the black slider and the white slider towards the middle until you get the contrast you like. Leave some gray in the stains; it will make your brushes more interesting in the end.
Levels for Coffee Stain Brushes
Select Your Brush
Now we need to make individual selections of all the stains you want as brushes, copy them and paste them into a new document.
Grab the rectangle marquee tool by pressing “m” or locating it on your toolbar. Make a simple selection around the stain you would like to work on.
Select Your Brush
Now we need to make individual selections of all the stains you want as brushes, copy them and paste them into a new document.
Grab the rectangle marquee tool by pressing “m” or locating it on your toolbar. Make a simple selection around the stain you would like to work on.
Coffee Stain Selection
Hit “ctrl, c” on the keyboard to copy that selection.
Hit “ctrl, n” to open up a new document.
And hit “ctrl, v” to paste that selection into the new document.
Clean up the brush by deleting any excess or unnecessary marks. To do this, make a selection using the magic wand tool, you can find it on the toolbar or Pressing “W”. Also note you can play around with the tolerance to refine your selection. Once you have a selection you’d like to take out, press “ctrl, x” to cut it out. Repeat selecting and cutting until you have just the brush that you want.
Hit “ctrl, c” on the keyboard to copy that selection.
Hit “ctrl, n” to open up a new document.
And hit “ctrl, v” to paste that selection into the new document.
Clean up the brush by deleting any excess or unnecessary marks. To do this, make a selection using the magic wand tool, you can find it on the toolbar or Pressing “W”. Also note you can play around with the tolerance to refine your selection. Once you have a selection you’d like to take out, press “ctrl, x” to cut it out. Repeat selecting and cutting until you have just the brush that you want.
Tolerance for Magic Wand Tool
Save the file to a location that’s easy to remember
Bringing the Work Into Illustrator
Save the file to a location that’s easy to remember
Bringing the Work Into Illustrator
We could stop at this step and convert the file to a brush, and it would be very useful; however the brush would not be very scalable, and we would be limited to the resolution we have now. By bringing Illustrator into the mix, we can make the brush larger, and then scale it down in size depending upon our need!
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