Brushes are repeatable, monochrome shapes that can be painted onto any image file. Virtually all freehand digital painting in photoshop is accomplished with some variety of brushes, and the options to ...

Why pay for a disc of pre-made textures or a pricey Photoshop plugin to get the texture you want? Grab a source image and follow this simple tutorial to make your own seamless texture. Although the ...

Murat Gül reveals his process for creating foreboding digital art.

Some of the greatest features in Photoshop are the text, object, and image effects such as Textures, Patterns, Gradients, and Styles. Styles are those amazing special effects that you see rolling ...

5. Now to make it look more like oil-brush strokes. Select the Smudge tool and set the Size to 30 pixels and the Strength to 50%. Use short strokes, repeated often, to go over the textures again. To ...