If the new document is smaller than what you selected, just repeat these last two steps. Open up a new document (Ctrl+N) and paste your selection into it (Ctrl+V). Try and get a selection like in the below picture.Ĭlick the OK button and the window will close and you will now have a selection active. Last but not least: adjust the fuzziness slider and make sure that the 'Localized color clusters' -box isn't checked. You can also turn on the selection preview at the bottom in order to display what will be selected. At the top of this window you can also chose to do a selection based on a color, shadows or high- and midtones - don't do that for now. Next click 'Select' at the top toolbar and select 'Color Range.' Now when you have this window up, a color picker is activated and you can select/sample a color from the picture. Open up the texture in Photoshop (Ctrl+O). You can download up to 15MB every 24 hours for free - which should be more than enough.įor this tutorial I'm going to use this one:

For this example I'm going to use a texture downloaded from If you don't have an account at CGtextures yet, then you should definetly go ahead and register one. I suggest that you download a large, concrete texture from a texture database (or take your own photo). The workflow for creating a brush using this particular method goes like this:Įxtract -> Import -> Tweak/Reform -> Saveįirst of we need a source file that we can extract a grunge shape from. You should have about intermediate skills in Adobe Photoshop for this, but even as a beginner you might learn something. I'm going to focus on grunge brushes, but this method work for any kind of brush really. There are probably tons of brushes that you can download online, but rather than giving you a fish for a day, I'm going to teach you how to catch fish for a lifetime - if you get my metaphor. They can be used for textures, concepts, promotional pictures and many other things. A great selection of brushes should be in the tool box of every artist.

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