Download these 21 rust textures for free and use them in your next design. They are dirty, scratched up, smeared, and cracked. All the images are high quality around 3800 pixels wide. As with all of our resources, personal and commercial use is welcomed and encouraged!

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Generative art as defined by Philip Galanter is, “Any art practice where the artist creates a process, such as a set of natural language rules, a computer program, a machine, or other mechanism, which is then set to motion with some degree of autonomy contributing to or resulting in a complete work of art.”

I became a huge fan of generative art after I went to a presentation by Joshua Davis at Adobe Max. His presentation was on his new experimental work, titled "space". It was a real treat to see how Joshua pushes himself and his work to the next level. He is by far a master in this area. You can watch the presentation here.

After the workshop, I was really inspired to find as many resources as I could on creating generative art. Listed below are some programs that you can download, as well as some tutorials and of course, inspiration to get you started. For better understanding about art, enroll at Art Institute Washington DC.

I personally like the idea of generating art inside of Flash with some ActionScript. It is a lot more versatile and cleaner in my opinion. But who's to say you just have to use one program? Try them all out!

Here is another amazing selection of designs for your inspiration, enjoy! If you would like to submit something to Media Militia, please use Twitter and include @mediamilitia in your tweet or email contact@mediamilitia.com

Most graphic and web designers have a fairly good knowledge of Photoshop or other image creation tools. However, some people take their expertise and talent by spending countless hours working on it, the result being some stunning digital artworks. The following collection introduces you to twenty amazing digital artists and one of their creations.

This pack of brushed borders have a nice grungy feel to them. They all have transparent backgrounds, making them really easy to lay over a photo or design for instant results. There are 27 different styles in both Photoshop Brushes and PNG texture images. Enjoy! As with all of our resources, personal and commercial use is welcomed and encouraged!

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How many times have you said, "I wish Photoshop had..." or "Photoshop should be able to..."? I say those phrases almost every time I use Photoshop. I have been using Photoshop since its early days and as each new version comes out, they include some very neat and stunning features, but usually lack features that I hoped for. With Photoshop CS5 coming out soon (most likely in April 2010), I created a list of the top 10 most requested features that I believe would make Photoshop a more powerful and time saving tool. I have listed each of the requested features that I hope to be included in the next version. In some cases, I have even included workarounds; like utilizing 3rd party software or taking some extra steps to get to the desired outcome. So here they are:

1. Better Brush Panel & Viewer

Inside of Photoshop's current Brushes Panel, you have the ability to change the preview thumbnail to a large thumbnail, unfortunately the thumbnail isn't really large, it is a mere 53 x 53 preview. I wish we could be able to view the whole preview of the brush, that would save us countless hours! Most of us just experiment with the brush by painting in pixels and hoping it looks good. If it doesn't, then we undo and try a new one. With more and more digital artists downloading and collecting brushes, why is it such a pain to find that brush you downloaded recently? I would love to have the brush author be able to add tags or keywords to the brushes, which would allow you to easily search through your whole brush collection to find that perfect brush for your design. We all know that some brushes aren't that great of quality, so how about giving us the ability to rate our brushes as well? Features Wish List

• Ability to add keywords to brushes
• Rate your brushes
• Search your brush collection
• Organize and Categorize your brushes from multiple ABR files
• Quickly preview brushes at 100% scale.
• Increase the pixel size limit (Currently Brushes are limited to 2500 pixels)

2. Styles for Type

The idea here is that you should be able to define a style for your text. If you need to change anything, say the color and the size, you should be able to open up a styles area, make some changes and all of your layers that have the type style would also be changed to that style. Features Wish List

• Define and Edit Type Styles
• Preview all the Type Styles associated with the PSD
• Link Type Layers to Type Styles so you can edit them in one place and update all associated layers.

3. Selective Undo

This feature would be mind boggling yet very practical. Imagine that you could open up your History Panel and delete a section of 20 history states without changing any of your latest history states. Selective Undo allows you to do just that! Currently, you only have the option to revert back to a history state and lose all of your latest changes. At Adobe Max 2009, one of the Fireworks engineers tried to show this off, however, it didn't work that well. At least we know it is in Adobe's toolbox of tricks to come out in the future. Features Wish List

• Choose the state to eliminate without affecting any of the future history states.
• Make a selection around an area and be able to undo just in that selected area.

4. Better Swatches Panel

Just like the Brushes Panel, why do we only get a tiny preview of our swatches? Wouldnt it also be great, if you could click on a color and view colors that go with the color right in the swatches panel? I would love to have better integration with kuler.adobe.com and have keywords associated with the colors and color sets. There is a lot of improvement needed here. Features Wish List

• Larger thumbnail view
• Integration with kuler.adobe.com
• Ability to select a color and get all the colors that work well with that selected color
• Have multiple tabs of color swatches
• You should be able to add keywords and be able to search for colors

5. Auto Saving

This one baffles me that it hasn't been implemented yet. You have probably seen tweets lately that go something like this, "Photoshop just crashed! I just lost two hours of work!" Everyone has had this problem at one time or another. Yes, we all know that you should be saving your work, but when your really into a design, that is really the last thing on your mind. Lot's of software vendors have this feature in their software. Why not Photoshop? Features Wish List

• Auto Save PSD files.
• Ability to change how often it auto saves in minutes.
• Change the default auto save location.
• Give us the ability to turn on/off this feature.

6. Undo Keeps Current Layer Selected

This is the most annoying thing that was changed a few versions ago. Say your working on layer #1, and you go to layer #2, create something and then you undo what you just created. Photoshop will make layer #1 now the active layer. There should be an option in your preferences menu to disable this from happening. To this date I have no idea why Adobe would have changed the way it used to be. Features Wish List

• Go back to the old way. When I undo, keep the current layer selected!
• Have the option to turn on and off this feature in the preferences.

Update: It appears that only the Step Backward command has this annoying behavior. The Undo command still keeps the layer selected. But come on, most of us use Step Backward as our undo. Right? (Thanks Josh of Orkron Studios for pointing this out!)

7. Outer Stroke with Square Edges

How nice would this be? Currently when you stroke anything in Photoshop, it will stroke it with rounded edges. It looks allright, but it would be nice to have the option to make the edges square. Illustrator can do it, why not Photoshop? Features Wish List

• Add a Square Edges option in the Stroke dialog and in the Layer Styles
• Add dashed strokes that you can change the spacing
• Give us the ability to add multiple strokes without having to create new layers.

8. Keyboard Shortcut to Rotate Brush

Currently there are keyboard shortcuts to increase/decrease the size and the hardness of the currently selected brush, which is a huge time saver. But say you have a grunge brush selected and you want to rotate it, you have to open the brushes panel and change the angle, then brush, and then go back into your brushes panel and repeat. This is not practical at all. Features Wish List

• Have a default keyboard shortcut that you can rotate the brush in 1% increments left and right.

9. Improvements to Gradients

Let's face it the gradient tool and the editor is not very intuitive and is lacking features. It hasnt had a major overhaul in a long time. Illustrator CS4 just got a new interactive Gradient tool that makes creating gradients and working with them so much easier. Add the Illustrator Gradient Tool with the current Gradient Adjustment Layers and bingo...I would be happy! Features Wish List

• Integrate the Illustrator Interactive Gradient Tool into Photoshop
• Allow the Gradient Fill Adjustments Layer to use the new Interactive Gradient Tool
• Live editing of the gradient

10. Add Clarity Adjustment Layer

If you have used Adobe Camera Raw 4.1+ or Lightroom, you will have seen the Clarity slider. This is a great way to make your images look extremely better. It is pretty much a mid tone contrast enhancing setting. This is a must have adjustment layer that needs to be added inside of Photoshop. Features Wish List

• Add a new Adjustment Layer: Clarity!

Conclusion

So what can you do to make these features come to life? Check out the Adobe Feature Requests forum and post some of these features or even features you wish to see in future versions of Photoshop. John Nack of Adobe has posted a poll and is requesting feeback. Go give Adobe some feedback. Please leave a comment below on what you think are your top feature requests. I would love to know!

This pack is gigantic! We have included 104 elements in two formats, Photoshop Brushes (ABR) and Vectors (EPS). Line art elements are always a great thing to have in your design toolbox. You can use these elements as a background and create a really intricate design. I hope you enjoy and use them in your designs! As with all of our resources, personal and commercial use is welcomed and encouraged!

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Inspiration comes in many forms and we see inspirational art everywhere we go in our daily lives. For a graphic designer, the primary medium for this inspiration is of course on the internet, and it is on the blogs we visit daily that popular digital art is often featured for us to be inspired from (such as MediaMilitia’s ‘Get Inspired’ posts).