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Flaming Skulls Photoshop Brush Set

Nathan — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:00:46 +0000

This brush set is a little experimental… I combined some reference photos of skulls I had on hand with some textures that I had photographed a few months back. I’m pretty happy with the results. You can’t have enough creepy skulls after all. Sometimes a design calls for a screaming skull engulfed in flames, so you never know when these little guys might come into play!

Flaming Skulls | A High Resolution Photoshop Brush SEt
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Exploding Feathers 15 High Res Photoshop Brushes

Nathan — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:09:46 +0000

I probably haven’t mentioned this here before, but I’ve recently picked up fly fishing as a hobby. Part of the fun of fly fishing is tying your own flies from things like hen feathers and deer hair. As I begin putting together a collection of such items the fisherman in me was saying “What great flies, I’ll be able to tie”… but at the same time the artist in me was saying “What a great set of Photoshop brushes all of this stuff would make!”. So a new collection was born. I’m calling this one Exploding feathers! The set is made up of multiple types of feathers and hair… my scanner itches just thinking about it.

Exploding Feathers | A High Resolution Photoshop Brush Set
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Room122 :: 2009 Photoshop Brush Round Up

Nathan — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:53:13 +0000

Okay… I know we’re well into January now but I wanted to take a few minutes to round up all of the Photoshop brushes that I released in 2009. It was a busy year, but I managed to get a few good sets out to the masses. Below are all of the Photoshop brushes from last year. Enjoy!

Water Color Splatters

3D Explosions

Beautiful Splatters a Web Design Ledger Exclusive

Star Clusters

Water Color and Salt

Water Color Dry Brush a Web Design Ledger Exclusive

Water Color Newspaper a Round Table Companies Exclusive

Strange Light Effects a Round Table Companies Exclusive

Watercolor Newspaper : A High Res Photoshop Brush Set

Nathan — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:32:14 +0000

For those of you who may not know, I’m in love with watercolor as a design element, and it’s one of my favorite mediums for creating Photoshop brushes. I’ve created a new set called Watercolor Newspaper, and it’s available as a Round Table Companies exclusive. We’re starting a new design blog over there with lots of great stuff in the works. So head over there, download this brush set and show your support. Be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed for future updates.

Below are samples from this set.

Watercolor and Salt : A High Res PS Brush Set

Nathan — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:35:43 +0000

This Photoshop brush set is the result of off-the-wall experimentation. Watercolor does some interesting things when sprinkled with salt, and even more interesting things when caked with salt. This brush set is great for stacking grungy, clumpy, dirty color onto your designs. Have fun experimenting!

Watercolor and Salt | A High Resolution Photoshop Brush Set
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Star Clusters : A High Res Photoshop Brush Set

Nathan — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:47:14 +0000

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve done a new set of Photoshop brushes, and this one’s been swimming around my head for a little while now. So no time like the present to get it completed and rolled out to all of you PS brush lovin’ fewls. I’m actually not going to say much about how I created this set. I’d like to see if anyone can guess what these brushes actually are.

I think they work best with a little bit of Outer Glow layer style added. I’ve detailed the process below.

I hope you enjoy this set of brushes! And remember if you do use them in your work, please feel free to share at the Room122 Flickr Group.

Star Clusters | A High Resolution Photoshop Brush Set
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Above is a sample from the set with an Outer Glow layer effect applied. Below are the settings I used for the effect.

Outer Glow
Blend Mode: Screen
Opacity: 50%
Spread: 0%
Size: 5px

10 Super Cool Photoshop Brush Sets That Every Designer Should Have

Nathan — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:17:26 +0000

There are SOOO many Photoshop brushes out there. Some are really really good, and very useful… and some are oh so bad. I’ve sifted through my collection and removed brush sets that weren’t up to par. I’ve collected these 10 sets as my absolute favorite. I’ve used a few of these in various design pieces, so I can say from experience that these PS brush sets definitely make the grade, and are well worth the download.

Ribbon Revolution Brushes from Rozairo | 10 brushes

Doodled Trees from PeHaa | 6 brushes

Romantic Disasters from BittBox | 10 brushes

Light Effect Brushes from Colorburned | An amazing 46 brushes

Grunge Brush Pack from Mike Martinez via PSDTuts | 12 brushes

Dirty Sprays from David Leggett via PSDTuts | 8 brushes

Beyond the Mist from midnightstouch | 8 brushes

Abstract Brushes from Krakograff | 5 brushes

High Res Spray Paint Set 2 from Spoon Graphics | 6 brushes

Abstract Grunge and Texture Pack from Webtreats Etc | 5 brushes

Ya know, I have some great Photoshop brushes of my own laying around here some place…
Ah! There they are.

3D Explosions – A High Res Photoshop Brush Set

Nathan — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:43:43 +0000

As you all know, I’ve been picking up Cinema 4D over the past few weeks. I’m in love with the ease of use and short learning curve. I’ve tried my hand a few times at other applications, but I feel like Cinema 4D is so much more intuitive… especially for designers, and the integration with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator is incredible. This set of high resolution 3D Explosions brush set was created after stumbling onto the Explosion FX, and playing with it for a couple of hours. For a beginner like me you simply can’t beat the fun of exploding 3D objects. I really like the controlled randomness… If that makes any sense at all.

This Photoshop brush set contains 10 high resolution exploding spheres. I hope you have as much fun experimenting with these brushes as I did creating them!

3D Explosions | A High Resolution Photoshop Brush Set
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Below are larger samples from the set.

Watercolor Splatters : A High Res Photoshop Brush Set

Nathan — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:21:10 +0000

I sat down a few nights ago to create some watercolor textures. I’ve wanted to have some in my bag of design tricks for a while, and wasn’t happy with what I was finding on the web. Plus, I like to create my own textures whenever possible. It just feels good. I’m by no means a watercolor artist, so it took me a bit to get into a groove and actually create something useful. Along the way I discovered if I puddled a few colors together and blew on the puddles while turning the paper I got some pretty interesting results.

Watercolor Splatters | A Free High Resolution Photoshop Brush Set
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I thought these splatters would make a great set of Photoshop brushes. I know there are plenty of splatter paint style PS brushes out there. But, every splatter is unique and these happen to be pretty interesting and even sparked a bit of creative juice. Below is some artwork that I created using these brushes to illustrate the style and usefulness of this set. If you download and use these brushes, be sure to share your work in the Room122 Flickr Community!

Room122 :: 2008 Photoshop Brush Round Up

Nathan — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:15:57 +0000

Well, for my last post of 2008 I thought it might be nice to round up all of my Photoshop Brushes released this year. I’ve had a tremendous amount of fun creating and posting these brushes. Building these sets has given me a new outlook on inspiration and design resources. I don’t think I would have begun to think in those terms had it not been for this site.

These PS Brush sets are only a drop in the bucket compared to the back log of ideas that I have stored away for the coming year. I can’t wait to get my ideas out and down on paper… er… uh… digital paper that is.

So without further adieu… Here are the complete Room122 :: 2008 Photoshop Brush Sets.