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First to reply cool update!

d’oh second!… and third

nice set of brushes! thanks…

Wait, what? Grunge is becoming a trend? Grunge is on it’s way out. It’s been in for the last 2 years. Don’t get me wrong, love the style, but I say download and use them now, Grunge is about to go the way of bellbottoms.

Cool brushes!

BTW: Keep posting this often!! My twitter is full of Smashmagazine and that’s great!!

I do!! Great brush set, tough.

Ty: “Wait, what? Grunge is becoming a trend? Grunge is on it’s way out. It’s been in for the last 2 years. Don’t get me wrong, love the style, but I say download and use them now, Grunge is about to go the way of bellbottoms.”

So true. Especially this “shield with wings and grungy shit”-motif is so outdated and is just looking plain ugly. As if it was created by a robot.
Absolutely not contemporary.

The first and second are just immature kids in the bloggosphere. I used to get irritated but it’s a unsolvable problem to make people smarter

Ryan: congrats, you contributed absolutely nothing worthwhile in the comments section, you should be proud.

As for myself, these brushes look like they will come in handy with collage designs, thanks for the freebie.

Nice set! I have some cool Illustrator brushes on my site at http://colorburned.com/illustrator-brushes/ they can easily be converted to Photoshop brushes if you need to.

Great set, if you are looking for some more grunge brushes, check out http://www.digitalrevolutions.biz/free-grunge-photoshop-brushes/2008/04/12/

This is one of my personal favorite packs, very hi-res.

Smashing!

the gibberish text would be your browser trying to display the abr file rather than download it. right click it and ’save as’.
either you have somehow added this as a mime type or not – i can’t remember which.

Let’s keep the freebries coming! :)
I just browsed through the freebies, and found… Not so much I could use.
I love the desktop calendars and I try to join as often as possible. I’m inspired by the icons but rarely can I use them… I don’t need wordpress themes, as I don’t have a wordpress-website.
Therefor I cheered, when I saw this article.

Only… Why the restictions??
When I see wonderfull photoshop brushes and custom shapes and so on I emidiatly download them and keep them in a library. This way I don’t forget where I saw them when someday I need to use them. But with all these restictions my creativity is dying!

I can’t efford to download this freebie- ’cause I know I would violate the copyright if I did.

So pardon my french: Thanks for nothing…(?)

Or let me ask another question- how do other handle that issue?
-remebering where the great tools are or
-remembering who to credit and ask permission?

Why always you say “first” “first” ?? It’s ugly.

Its really very nice brush set, Thanks! would be helpful in designing.

AWESOME!

cool..

download ah..

Well, I love it. I use it to produce fanart, and it suits my needs perfectly. I am sure everyone can find something for themselves in the resources provided by Smashing Magazine.

Grunge was in two years ago and was cheesy and already out less than a year ago.
This style is typical and overdone.

Well, i just love this website..

Amazes me the people who gripe about something when it’s free! If you don’t like it, or it doesnt suit your tastes- move on and leave it alone…sheesh!

I love anything grunge and appreciate the time it takes to create things for our use. Thank you for sharing with us!!!

Hi there… can use these to enhance my stock illustration?

Thanks. Nice one.

Coo&ThankYou

I have downloaded the brushed to my desktop and have opened them into photoshop but they dont appear in the brushes tablet, any suggestions?

Thanks a lot for this! Just what I was looking for!

I downloaded, but can’t find them in PSE7. where did they go?

yup link is broken for me as well :(. i’m getting a not found, not a forbidden, though

pls reup