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Gritty Halftone Spot Textures - Photoshop

Apply Distressed Halftone Textures to Your Designs

15 TEXTURES

Gritty Halftones will allow you to add small areas of texture. You can use multiple textures in a single design.

BRUSH COMPATIBILITY

Photoshop CC & CS6 - Load the high resolution brushes

Photoshop CS4 & CS5 - Load the 2500 pixel brushes

INSTALLING PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES

  • OPTION 1 (the easy way) - Just double click on the .abr (brush preset) file to load the brushes into Photoshop.

  • OPTION 2 (the organized way) - Drop your .abr file into your Photoshop Brushes folder:

Mac: Applications > Photoshop > Presets > Brushes

Windows: Program Files > Adobe > Photoshop > Presets > Brushes

  1. Navigate to your brushes window (Window > Brushes)

  2. Click on the tab at the top right of the brushes window

  3. Select Import Brushes... (or Load Brushes...) and navigate to the .abr file.


USING BRUSHES IN PHOTOSHOP

1) Open or create a new Photoshop file.

2) Highlight your Paintbrush tool in the toolbar.

3) Navigate to your Brushes window in Photoshop (Window > Brushes) to select a brush.

4) Size your brush with the left & right bracket keys [ ]

Tip: make sure caps lock is turned off so you can see the brush cursor size.

5) Paint into a layer or a layer mask with the brush! (See more in the video below)