This new library of brushes for Adobe Photoshop--Nagel Series 33--offers 20 custom brushes designed to emulate chalk, charcoal (including charcoal pencil), dry brushes and graphite pencil.

There are seven chalk brushes in total, designed to produce a light, soft texture with ragged edges. The charcoals have a more pronounced texture and include two thinner charcoal pencils, which build up density and thickness with pressure and tilt. There are also four "dry brushes," which are essentially meant to mimic paint brushes with drying pigment applied to them. These will produce light and sparse regions when you're painting, which can be useful for working on background textures. And then there are the five pencils, which are designed to resemble various graphite implements, including one that allows you to mimic a pencil on its side.

These brushes support Photoshop CS and Photoshop CS2 (but not Photoshop 7) in Macintosh and Windows environments. They are also supported by recent versions of Adobe Photoshop Elements.

Download: Nagel Series 33 Brushes (48 KB)

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