42 More Subtle Grunge Textured Photoshop Brushes
Our Second Subtle Textured Grunge Photoshop Brush Set: 42 Free Brushes
If, like us you are a fan of soft & subtle brushes then you’re going to love this new set. The focus on this set is to give you the tools to build up realistic textures in your designs, by using multiple brushes on multiple layers.
Details of the Pack
This set is completely free, you can use them anyway without the need of giving credit. The brushes are best used on projects meant for web use. They can be used elsewhere, but the way we made them, and the size of them make them ideal for use in web design rather than print.
The brushes all fade out around the edges, just so you don’t get any messy looking edges or straight lines in your grunge work. There’s a massive variety of textures & surfaces, 42 of them in total, all at different sizes and shapes. This set is a follow up to our popular first set.
The sort of thing you can expect from this set is really soft; Chalk, Concrete, Denim, Fabric, and Paper textures. All fixed up nicely and ready to use.
The set also contains some “harsher” brushes, such as some chalk strokes and some paint roller brushes. These kind of brushes are perfect for borders or masking layers.
Example of How to Use Them
Obviously you can use these however you want, but our best advice is to build up layers of texture in a subtle way. Play around with the various brushes - and build up the realistic textures by varying colours, opacity and placement. What you should aim for is something that looks natural and organic.
Share These Brushes
If you find this set useful we’d like you to pass them on to other who you think might appreciate it. You can do this easily using the share links below the post, or share the short URL below, as well as using the full URL in the address bar.
The URL to share is: http://bit.ly/dn4K4J
Important, you must link to this article when sharing the set, you must not upload these files to your own server when sharing.
Download The Set
Download Free Brushes | .zip Format | 9.3 mb
Written by liam on April 23, 2010
Brushess said:
Very nice great brush set Liam. Thanks share!
Mike said:
Thanks for the brush set!
Nemanja said:
Excelet brushes. Thanks mate!
Terry Acker said:
Good stuff, as always.
Matt @ DVQ said:
Great Brushes! Glad to see Function is still alive
Liam said:
Cheers Matt
- Yeah still going, been crazy busy working on some projects of our own for a few months. We’re hoping to give more details in a week or two. Glad you’re still with us!
Juan said:
Very useful mate! now sharing on twitter. Greetings from Spain
Saddam Azad said:
Fab brushes, my friend. Just what I was looking for. Thank you.
Matt @ DVQ said:
@Liam - Great! Glad to see you’ve been keeping busy
Josh said:
VERY appreciated. Thank you!
Seth said:
These are absolutely beautiful. Nice touch with the subtle fade around the edges. Very well done!
Apartmani Soko Banja said:
Great brushes. Very nice
parsdl said:
Very useful mate
Apartmani Sokobanja said:
Really cool and useful brushes. Thanks for sharing.
Jonas said:
Oh, they are unspeakably amazing.
Lee Kennedy said:
Thanks, nice set.
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Mike said:
Thanks for the nice set of brushes, i have only one question if i have to use these with paint shop pro while designing web site as someone asked me for that….
Keep up the good work on Web Design Free Stuff and i will be looking for more free stuff…..BTW i like nice CSS templates which i used for web sites for SEO purpose…
Birgit said:
wow, these are really gorgeous, thanks a lot for sharing!
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Thanx a lot man. Nice set of brushes. Thanks for sharing.
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Very nice brushes, thanks for sharing!
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These are very nice, ive been looking to get an effect like you have in the past and this is just what I need…and FREE…cant be better.
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rory said:
Lovely set of brushes, thank you so much. These will be very handy indeed.
Does anyone know where I could get a few lace background textures?
Any help whatever would be much appreicated….
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Great sets. Thanks a lot.
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The word for this is “great”! Thanks a lot for sharing mate, awesome.
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Thanks.
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Kristof said:
Amazing brush set, thank you a lot! Balanced, versatile and very very usable compared to a lot of “grunge brushes”!
izdelava strani said:
I’m using CS2 and are this brushes compatible with older versions?
liam said:
@izdelava strani - I’m not 100% sure, I’ve never tried it. They were made in CS4 - It’s worth a try. Let us know how you get on. Thanks.
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YUM YUM YUMMY - Love those brushes, thank you so much guys (again)
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Just wanted to say thanks so much for this! Great tools from great people!
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These will work a treat for building up layers in our designs, Thank you! LT