The beauty of these Photoshop brushes is that they’re versatile and buildable - the more stamps and strokes made, the more texture you’ll have. Each brush is handmade, and created in-house, by experimenting with acrylic paint and various textured surfaces. Looking to add more character and grit to your designs? We created this pack of 20 Free Photoshop Grunge Brushes to elevate your design projects. Incorporate a gritty, rugged, vintage look to background elements, typography, logos, and photos with these buildable and customizable brushes. While the image is still open, go to Edit, and to Preset Manager.Elevate any aspect of your design with these versatile and FREE Photoshop Grunge Brushes. Go to the Crop tool and crop the image down. Choose a brush to erase with that will leave the edges jagged or uneven. Instead of leaving the eraser brush round or square, go to the top toolbar and click open your brushes.

Choose it, and go back to your black and white image. Use the eraser tool (a little pink eraser on the tool palette). You can use this as a brush if you wish, but the edges are still very 'hard'. Only the black part will stamp as an actual brush.

Anything white in the photo does not become part of the brush. Play with this number until you get a good balance of black and white. The Threshold box will pop up with a number already selected. This is where we make it truly black and white. Go back up to Image at the top tool bar and hover over Adjustments. Using the shift key will center the cropped section.

Drag the image from the side bar (red arrow points where you should start the dragging) onto the transparency layer. Leaving the newly cropped image selected, hold down the shift key. Drag open selection and go back to the crop tool. Open a new document a little bigger than your original image with a transparent background. It'll automatically grayscale your photo. Hover the mouse over Adjustments, and then choose Desaturate from the flyout menu. Go to the task bar at the top and click Image.

You can take a normal photo you've taken and really make it look unique by giving it harder edges and some more texture to the shot. Here is another cool photo manipulation you can do using Photoshop CS3.

Grunge eraser photoshop