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Crispy Cracks Grunge Brush Set

Turk Hit Box — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:57:43 +0000

After seeing the popularity of my first Grunge Brush Set, I decided to another one. My previous brush set is receiving more then 500 uniques per day alone from various resource sites that I have submited it to. I am hoping to do the same with this one and I have to say Crispy Cracks Grunge Brush Set is much original!

Crispy Cracks Grunge brushes are very detailed thus they have very large size between 640px and 1175px. The brush set contains 7 high quality grunge brushes that you can use to create realistic rusting and peeling effects.

I have created the grunge brushes using Adobe Photoshop CS3, so I am not sure if they will work with older versions, but they should be fine.You can download the brushes by clicking the below Download link.

Download Crispy Cracks Grunge Brush Set from GraphicRiver.net for only $3

Turkish Flag Button for Bartelme Design

Turk Hit Box — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:55:06 +0000

While I was “surfing the Net“, I stumbled upon Bartelme Design. Looking at their Flag Button Devkit, I decided to represent my country by a small addition Seeing all those flags just made my nationalistic feelings top.

After finding a high-quality vector-abased Turkish flag, I just copy&pasted it inside the photoshop file provided in the Flag Button DevKit. I toned down the reflections to make the red inside the Turkish flag appear more since it represents the blood of soldiers who died while fighting for Turkey.

You can download the photoshop file for Round Button for Turkish Flag below:

Car Wheels Brush Set by THB

Turk Hit Box — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:57:46 +0000

This is the second photoshop brush set that I am releasing. I have searched the net and could not find any brush sets with car wheels. I know that they can not be very useful like my grunge brushes, but I am sure that Car Wheels Brushes will come in handy someday. I just went to tirerack.com and downloaded some high-quality wheel images from different wheel manufacturers.

Car Wheels Brush Set contains 10 high-quality brushes that you can use freely in your designs. I would like to know if you guys are interested in having new innovative brush sets, so drop a note in the comments.

You can click on the above image I have created with one of the brushes in the Car Wheels Brush Set by THB to download.
Installation instructions can be found on the readme.txt inside the thb-car-wheels-brushes.zip file.

Photoshop Grunge Brush Set by THB

Turk Hit Box — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:46:15 +0000

As you can see from the design of TurkHitBox.com, I really like grunge brushes. They are useful for many effects other than creating old rusty look. Grunge Brushes can really make an image look realistic if used properly. This is why I am releasing some of the grunge brushes that I have made and used in my artwork and web design as TurkHitBox Grunge Brush Set v1.0.

TurkHitBox Grunge Brush Set v1.0 contains 10 highly-detailed brushes. Most of them can be used as creating rust on the edge of the photo. I will be releasing more brush sets as time goes by and I will make sure that they are always high quality.

You can download the file from GraphicRiver.net for only $1.00

Let’s Speed Up Photoshop CS2

Turk Hit Box — Sat, 26 May 2007 16:09:45 +0000

When you want to make a design for a web page, photoshop is the ultimate tool. Because of its advanced image editing algorithm and functions, photoshop uses lots of system resources. It won’t matter how much RAM or what kind of processor you have, you can still make photoshop load faster and operate faster using these optimizations:

Disable Unneeded Plugins: Each time you launch Photoshop, it loads plug-ins and presets into memory. The problem is that you may or may not need many of the plug-ins during the course of a session, but they eat into the memory allocation regardless. To disable a plugin, go to the plugins folder inside your adobe photoshop installation and place a ~ (tilde) in front of the file name. Here are some that I have disabled to speed up my photoshop cs2:

DigiRead.8bf
DigiSign.8bf
Liquify.8BF
Lens Correction.8bf
VanishingPoint.8bf

Disable Unneeded File Formats: While you are in the Plugins folder, disable some of the file formats that are rarely used. I don’t think I have opened a file with these extensions for more than 2 years now.

FilmStrip
PCX
PhotoCD
Pixar
Targa

Delete the Ugly Patterns: In your Presets\Patterns folder, there are pattern files (*.pat), you can safely remove them since they all are ugly looking and you can find a pattern that will suit your needs easly on Internet. However, removing these files won’t remove the patterns on the presets. To remove a pattern from the pattern preset, you need to go to the preset manager and delete them.

Enable Pixel Doubling: When you are working on large image files, photoshop can sometimes slow down while processing the rest of the image. By enabling pixel doubling, photoshop temporarily doubles the size of the pixels and restores them after you are done with your tool. Go to Edit > Preferences > Display & Cursors

Smaller Thumbnails with Palette Options: Photoshop displays thumbnails for each channel and each layer. You can view smaller thumbnails on Layers tab and completely disable thumbnails on the channel tab. Each tab has its own options, the most important one is the history tab. In the History options, disable every option.