This is How We Do Grunge!

You may have your own way of doing it. There is no right or wrong. The government can't control the way we do grunge (at least this statement is still true in my country). Grunge is the art of appreciating the flaws in everything we see in the world. Stain, dirt, scratch and rust are some of the imperfections that make grunge so perfect (isn't it ironic?) If I may summarize what grunge is in my own words, I'll say it's broken, it's rebellious (even emo) and yet it's so awesome! If you call yourself a grunge artist (or pretend to be one), this is one grunge resource on the web you cannot afford to miss. You can find more high quality grunge textures @ grungetextures.com and I have a teaser of what you can expect to see on this awesome site. Below "I'm No Superman" banner is created using some of the textures available on the site. You can download each preview texture by clicking on the image.

Btw, if you're looking for some grunge brushes, you should look over HERE.

Download: I'm no Superman PSD file and figure out the setting for each layer.








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Collection Of Retro Color Pallete

Vintage vs. retro, is there any difference between these two? I'm sure Google will have the answer to this question. Some of us may even have their very own opinion on this. Whatever it is, let's not argue about it here. Because today, I'm going to share with you a bunch of color palettes which I found very interesting and beautiful. Call them vintage colors or if it suit you more, you can classify them as retro color. you can download all the color swatch by clicking the pallette image. On the Colourlovers page, scroll down to see the hex color codes. And on the right hand side, there's a menu called "Download Options". Choose ACO to download the swatch to your computer. One more thing, if you're interested to get the the preview patterns next to each color palette, you can find all of them HERE.
































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Download Free Photoshop Gradients

This is our compilation of 20 Photoshop Gradient sets that you can download for free. Some of the gradient sets contain more than 50 gradients (and some less). We're gonna take a safe bet here and let's say each set has an average of 25 gradients. With this assumption, you have 500 gradients to download. And that is a lot of option for you. In most cases, you'll be downloading a .GRD file for the gradient set. How to load and open this gradient in Photoshop? Place the .grd files into: Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop X\Presets\Gradients where X is your version of your Photoshop. For Mac users, move the .grd file to the application folder. Next, continue with the following steps:

1. Open Photoshop, select gradient tool in the toolbar.
2. On the gradient palette, click the small arrow on top right corner to load more gradient.
3. Browse to your saved .grd file and click ok.
4. The new gradient will be listed in your gradient palette now.






















For more reading, check out our tutorial on How to use Gradient Map in Photoshop to get some amazing Photo effects

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Textures and Patterns: Free Resources

What would life be without sense of humor. What's a wall, without that sweet portrait and pretty wallpaper. Color makes everything interesting and patterns just keep us going, textures save us from being plain boring and this post will make sure that you don't miss anything. This is our texture and pattern section. We'll keep updating this page as we post more textures and patterns for your download. And here's a tip saving a pattern to be used in Photoshop: Save and Use Pattern in Photoshop


















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