Tutorial: How to extract a colour scheme from a photograph

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Today I picked up on a neat little trick on how to extract a colour palette from a photograph. Imagine you stumble upon a gorgeous photo (or piece of digital art) which has this special colour scheme. You could use the eyedropper tool to extract each colour individually but there’s a slicker way of doing it. This tutorial teaches you how to convert a photo into a fully functional colour swatch palette using photoshop and illustrator. + Continue Reading

Photoshop Tip: Delete Brush Shortcut

By pure accident I found out how to quickly delete a Photoshop brush from the preset list. This comes in very handy when you’re trying to save a custom brush set and don’t want any superfluous brushes to be in your .abr file. There’s a tedious way, which means right-clicking on each brush and selecting delete. There’s the obvious one by clicking the thrash icon in the brush palette. Finally there’s a hidden, much simpler, quicker way: + Continue Reading

High Resolution Watercolour Photoshop Brushes

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It’s time for some free high resolution Photoshop brushes again. This time I made two sets with a total of 51 watercolour brushes. Resolutions are between 1480 px to 2500 px. I followed BittBox’s tutorial and hopefully you like the result. Feel free to use them as you wish. You need my permission if you want to distribute them. I’m looking forward to seeing your designs. + Continue Reading

Photoshop Brushes: Tea Stains

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I’ve just completed my first set of photoshop brushes. The resolutions are between 750px up to 2500px. The set contains a total of 10 brushes. Download after the jump. I really hope you like them and can put them to good use. As with all freebies found on this blog these are free for commercial and personal use. Go! Get messy! + Continue Reading