Textured graphics are obviously very popular right now, and fortunately there are tons of free Photoshop brushes that will help you to quickly and easily get the textured look you want. This post is a showcase of some of the best sets of brushes available anywhere for creating textures

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Here is a set of high-resolution Photoshop brushes that you can use for creating some realistic light effects in your background design or if you simply want to add some realistic sparks in your layout. You may use them individually or you may also overlap one with another light brush to make it more interesting. These light effects Photoshop brushes are ideal to use with dark background but make sure to use lighter shade for your light effects Photoshop brushes to create contrast. Created in Photoshop CS2, these light effects Photoshop brushes have resolution of around 2500 pixels and should work with any CS version of Photoshop.

This pack of high-resolution fire background Photoshop brushes is useful for creating realistic fire background in your design compositions. This second set includes fire images in different forms similar to that of smoke textures or forms. There are a total of 17 extra large fire background Photoshop brushes that you can use for free in your noncommercial design projects. To get the best results, try experimenting with different blending modes in Photoshop. Ideally, these fire background Photoshop brushes are most effective when used with dark background.

One of the main problems with HDR-type post-processing is that you can easily end up with glowing haloes around your subject matter. Topaz Labs has come up with Topaz Detail Photoshop Plug-in to address this problem. Detail is also perfect for enhancing or reducing image sharpness, and for converting your images to grayscale with full control over the tonal range. Detail manipulates image detail and sharpness without creating any edge artifacts. Sharpen without oversharpening, accentuate details without increasing noise, and add dynamism to photos without making them look fake.

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