Texturelabs

May 2022 - The Latest

Hope this finds you well!

What’s new at the Lab? Well, let’s seeee...

NEW TEXTURES

A larger batch of new textures this month - I added a new Subcategory to ...

New tutorial alert: Are you using Knockout Layers in Photoshop?!

Hey everyone! New one that'll go live to the public feed next week...

Here's my feeling about this video - it doesn't make the snappiest click-bait headline, but the subject it covers in Phot...

Oops! Adobe Live Stream is Wed and Thursday!

Thanks to @YourArtDude for pointing out a ridiculous oversight... Wednesday is May 4th, so yes, the Adobe Live stream is this Wednesday and Thursday 12PM-2PM PST!

2022-05-02 22:04:46 +0000 UTC View Post

April 2022 Wrap-up / Texturelabs Live this Week!

Hey everyone, hope your month is off to great start!

This Wednesday and Thursday from 12PM-2PM PST!

Texturelabs on 2022-05-02 21:33:27 +0000 UTC View Post

New Prerelease - Comic Book Effects! (A Speed Tutorial)

Hey everyone, new tutorial alert!

COMIC BOOK STYLE EFFECTS IN PHOTOSHOP

2022-04-12 18:25:22 +0000 UTC View Post

March 2022 Wrap Up!

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I hope March wrapped up nicely for you and all is well! I had a nice little getaway last week - drove to Southern CA to see some family and a few close friends for the first tim...

New Tutorial Prerelease - Movie Trailer GFX Magic!

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I stepped out of Photoshop plugin-mode to create a new tutorial…  we’re back in After Effects! I’m opening up the books on this one and sharing a method I’ve used a...

Texturelabs Real 3D Plugin... Ready for a test drive!?

Hello everyone,

Here we go!!! After many many weeks of working on this thing, I’ve got a Beta version of the Texturelabs Real 3D Plugin for Photoshop ready to go. The plugin is built using ...

February 2022 - The Return of 3D and more....

THIS MONTH: Texturelabs 3D Extrude Plugin, Upcoming Adobe Live Stream, Pencil Sketch Tutorial, New Textures!

Hello everyone!

Well I've been absolutely glued to the scre...

New tutorial! Lightning-fast realistic sketches in Photoshop

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Just uploaded a new tutorial! This will go out to the "masses" next week, but here’s a link for...

The Latest - January 2022

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Wrapping up the first month of the year…. That went fast!

THE LATEST

Round 1 of updates to the 2022-02-01 17:34:32 +0000 UTC View Post

New Tutorial Prerelease!

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Hope the year is off to a great start!

So… Before I started the first Texturelabs tutorial, I made a list of ideas. This video, no kidding, was the very first thing on t...

Wrapping Up 2021 & Behind-the-Scenes Video!

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Hope the year is wrapping up nicely for you and you’re looking forward to 2022! Let’s see if this decade can manage anything like a normal year…

I’m mixing it up f...

New Photoshop Tutorial! Dynamic live collage effect

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I’ve got new tutorial here that just finished uploading! It’s a fun approach to creating collage portraits and images in Photoshop - but I think could also be used in a num...

Prerelease tutorial! Hand-Illustrated effect in AE

Alright! New tutorial link for you guys… I’m excited about this one, thanks for your patience. It’s a very simple setup in After Effects to create this organic illustrated look:

2021-12-08 20:45:21 +0000 UTC View Post

The Latest - November 2021

Hi everyone,

A huge thank you as always for your continued support, and an enthusiastic welcome to all new Patreons! A quick update this month. It's business as usual here in the lab - some n...

New Tutorial Prerelease

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Just posted a new tutorial for release next week! This one took me a bit longer than I had planned, but I just kept having ideas for things to add to it. While it’s branded as...

The Latest - October 2021

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Happy Halloween!

It was a seemingly uneventful month here… up until the West Coast megastorm showed up and knocked down a tree and flooding our property, taking out our ...

Prerelease 2-Minute Photoshop Tip!

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Just uploaded a new tutorial for release next week… It’s more of an everyday timesaver tip, but one I use just about every day for quickly converting black & white to bl...

New Prerelease Tutorial!

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New tutorial alert! This one required a bit of extra coffee - I gave myself the challenge of building the same thing in both Photoshop and After Effects. I thought it would be i...

The Latest - September 2021

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Hope you’ve had a great month. A huge thank you and welcome to the new Patreon members this month… glad to have you on board! All is well here. I’m slowly getting my studi...

The First Prerelease Video for Expert Supporters!

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A quick update with a new feature for the Patreon Expert supporters!

I’m releasing all videos a week early as an extra benefit… just one more way I figure I can expres...

The latest - August 2021

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Hope it’s been a great month for you! To the new Patreon supporters this month - a huge thank you and welcome to the project. Of course, my continued thanks and high fives to ...

July 2021 + NEW Art History Brushes!

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Hope you’re enjoying the summer. It was an exciting month here with the big move - we’re a family of four so, needless to say, a lot of boxes were involved. Slowl...

The Latest: June 2021!

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Hope you’re doing well. Busy month here! I hope some of the new vector elements on the site will prove to be useful. My favorite elements are definitely the simple ones - I’...

New Vector section is live!

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Quick update, I just launched the vector category of the site! For now, it's just over 200 assets to get...

The Latest - May 2021

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In addition to being super-flower-magic-blood-moon month, the cosmic calendar also lined up to be a 3 tutorial month… I hope you found something useful in the new additions to...

Introduce yourself to the group!

I'll start...

I'm Brady Erickson, originally from LA but now in the San Francisco Bay area.

I've spent the last 17 years primarily working in the film industry. About 50% of my work has...

April 2021 - What a month!!!

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Well... it seems that the Youtube algorithm has discovered the Texturelabs project! In the previous months, views had gone up to about 1000 per day (which I was very excited abo...

March 2021 and some awesome brushes to try out!

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Hope all is well with you!

All good here at the lab; a couple new tutorials and a few coming up that I’m really excited about. I’ve been digging deep into this Art His...