Dynamic Brushes

Wishing you a Merry Christmas!

These 4 transparent PNG stars are individual, high res (1000 px) colored images on transparent png files.

They are bursting with color and 3D-appeal, and I’m giving them away as a special Christmas gift. Use them as virtual “stickers” so your artwork will stand out from the rest.

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Patterns are becoming more and more useful to me as a designer. Here’s a tip that I use to make my brushes really POP. When I want a brush to be more intriguing in photoshop, I put a brush stroke on its own layer and then add a layer style: Pattern Overlay. These patterns are large and you may want to reduce the scaling to show the full effect of the colors.

Here’s a pack of 14 chequered, multicolored patterns that you can download FREE.

Download BrushThis Chequered Patterns (172KB zip file)

Greetings!

It’s been a wonderful, crazy year for me. I have spent the past 12 months creating a brand new, huge collection of beautiful, high res photoshop brushes. They are available – mostly FREE, or at a very low price – on www.brushlovers.com. All brush freebies or premium sets that were on this blog are no longer available (although their new and improved “cousins” are waiting for you on Brush Lovers), but there will be all sorts of other design goodies for you to download right here on Brush This in the coming weeks.

For starters, I have used some of my favorite brushes from Brush Lovers to design a really pretty Christmas card which you can download absolutely FREE! The file is high res (7 x 5.5″) and print-ready (300dpi, CMYK with crop marks for cutting ). Just download the pdf, print in color on card stock, and present it to your loved ones this festive season.

Christmas/New Year Card DOWNLOAD (1.4MB pdf file)

I was just developing a set of patterns yesterday, so the theme for Illustration Friday is perfect.

Talking about patterns, I am giving away FREE this set of my original Photoshop patterns, called “Extravagant”, to anyone who leaves a comment on this post.

OK, I’m loving this color theme and getting carried away with the spirit of Halloween!!!

Here’s a scratched-up, splattered-on, illuminated and bejewelled alpha for all my scrapbookers visitors. Make your layouts POP out at you! The x-height of each letter is around 300 px, so they are large enough for anything print-related, and also look great on screen. (The zip file is 8.5MB.)

The alpha set costs only $1.99.