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  • I thought I started this thread for all us creators, be it modelers or texture artists... because I have stumbled across so many good things lately that helped me a lot... and they might help you as well? I think, it is good to have a place to look around and to find stuff, so I started this thread.


    Since I spend a lot of time texturing, I´d like to share some of my favorite brush sets... more to come!


    Those are all for photoshop and will as well work in Gimp:

    Wonderful scale brusehs : Look here! (I have been using those a lot lately!)

    Skin Pore Brushes, also useful for short hair stubble, dust and dirt...  Click here!

    Stone Texture Brushes (works also fine for rough skin on certain creatures): Find them here!

    Tree Bark Brushes: Get them here!

    Chainmail Brush Set (I love those!): Click here!

  • Squee, I love this Mav, thank you so much! Now my question is how do you use the brushes in strokes without blurring it all together? Only way I can use these is if I click, move, click, move, instead of using one stroke.
  • I love collecting brushes. Thank you for the links, Mav.

    I don't seem to be able to open the scale or tree bark ones though. Since I don't use photohop I convert abr files using abrMate or abrViewer, neither of which will open those two files.
  • Squee, I love this Mav, thank you so much! Now my question is how do you use the brushes in strokes without blurring it all together? Only way I can use these is if I click, move, click, move, instead of using one stroke.



    Aww poo, you are using a mouse? With a tablet they move smoothly and sensitive to pressure...Or maybe I did not understand you the right way, hahaha... XD 

    What I do is having the textures created with them on extra layers where I can move areas around, rotate them, transform them in what way ever... not the most perfect way but still saves time compared to painting scales for example.

  • dylazuna said:

    I love collecting brushes. Thank you for the links, Mav.

    I don't seem to be able to open the scale or tree bark ones though. Since I don't use photohop I convert abr files using abrMate or abrViewer, neither of which will open those two files.



    Oh, I am sorry, I have no idea about those things since they work fine for me in photoshop...
  • I have a tablet (bamboo, I think) that's over 3 years old that I know of, an dpossibly over 5 to be honest. However, I still use it sparingly due to my hands. I'm stil learning that puppy.
    "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. " Mark Twain.
  • Mmmm...as for brushes. >.> I have enough. ENOUGH. Last count I did was before the last HD meltdown months and months ago. I had well over 1000 sets/individual brushes. It was part of the reason beside my runtimes that my computer just didn't have enough oomph to get anything done! I had gone through that list of brushes and runtime content to delete those I hadn't used often and I was amazed I had so many. I had no idea at the time. O.o
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  • *drool* Brushes! *drool* My preciousssss.

    Yes, I think I have ALL of Ron's brushes. I'm a total collector. Have not been sorry one moment, either.
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    * Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others.
  • Isn't there a way to not load all the brushes all the time?
    Suspiro ergo sum.
  • Wicked button == empty post. ARgh!
    Suspiro ergo sum.
  • Photoshop takes note of what's in the brushes folder, but they aren't loaded until you tell it to load them up on the brushes palette.

    As for switching out what's in the folder? Dunno.
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  • Free 2D Textures!  http://zentextures.com/
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    * Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others.
  • Woohoo for textures! :)
  • :( I couldn't load the page.
    Suspiro ergo sum.
  • Somethings up with that site now. Dunno... I swear to you, I copied the URL right.
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  • It's back up now. They must be bandwidth-limited or something.
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  • And they have some neat textures, too. And a pretty site; suits their zen theme..
    Suspiro ergo sum.
  • It's not a bad find.
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  • More seamless textures--very subtle background stuff.

    http://lostandtaken.com/blog/2012/1/4/30-free-seamless-background-textures.html

    Actually, the whole site is full of nice textures!

    http://lostandtaken.com/
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    * Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others.
  • Ooo...thank you for those!
    "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. " Mark Twain.
  • They're good far-backdrop material for desktops & postwork, eh?
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  • Yes. I don't have enough of those. Especially in neutral colors. *nabbed*
    Suspiro ergo sum.
  • *Nabbed!*  THANK YOU!
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  • * A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five!
    * Isn't it wonderful how cute weapons of mass distraction can be?
    * Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others.
  • More Photoshop "vintage grunge" patterns than you can shake a stick at! Good for texturing.

    http://psd.tutsplus.com/articles/a-myriad-of-vintage-grunge-patterns-from-across-the-web/?search_index=9
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    * Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others.
  • * A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five!
    * Isn't it wonderful how cute weapons of mass distraction can be?
    * Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others.
  • Smith Micro is offering Silo 2 for $109 today. This is HUGE bang for your buck if you want to learn modeling! It's a good little app and not hard to learn.
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    * Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others.
  • Don't know if anyone wants this- it's a caustics generator.  Free to download and use as long as it's not in commercial work.


    http://www.dualheights.se/caustics/#download

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  • Yes! I've seen that before. Thank you for posting that.
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  • Wasn't sure, so I thought "what the hell?" and slapped it in. XD

    You're more than welcome, of course!  

    "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. " Mark Twain.
  • http://mavrosh-stock.deviantart.com/

    This is my stock account on DeviantArt. I provide seamless tileable high resolution textures - unrestricted use, commercial use allowed. Maybe someone has a use for something here.:)
  • Nice- I'll have to check it out.  Thank you!
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  • Thank you!
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    * Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others.
  • "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. " Mark Twain.
  • Oh! Nagel's brushes, yes. Good sets.
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    * Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others.
  • Brushes! Yes! :D
  • How to make and use your own facial hair brushes in Photoshop:


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    * Isn't it wonderful how cute weapons of mass distraction can be?
    * Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others.
  • Actually, Phlearn has many fun Photoshop tutorials...

    Cracks on faces? Check.

    http://phlearn.com/create-amazing-cracked-skin-effect-photoshop
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  • THANK YOU NAN!  XD  Really....I've been working on facial cracks and such off and on forevah.
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  • Tried it myself last night, and it worked pretty well. The freckles tutorial is pretty cool, too. So is the eye-color changing. All handy for skin makers and portrait (?) artists.
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    * Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others.
  • You could use these brushes & techniques for making character skins! Made by Obsidian Dawn (who makes wonderful free brushes, by the way).

    http://youtu.be/PTEL0Q-Y7Tc

    Eyelash Brushes

    Eye shadow Brushes
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    * Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others.
  • And this is for making your own irises! SWEET. Because I collect eyes. Yesssss....



    Iris parts brushes
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  • And how to use her very nice skin texture brushes! I use those myself in doing post-work.


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  • Thank you for these!
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