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Multi-talented illustrator and graphic designer Andrew Fairclough has a true gift for creating digital design tools that make it easy to add realistic textures to any project. 

While teaching design courses online, Andrew shared some of his with the class – highlighting handmade textures he’d made himself. People began to ask about the availability of those design assets and it gave Andrew the idea to create a business dedicated to them. That was the beginning of True Grit Texture Supply.

Since it was founded in 2016, True Grit Texture Supply has evolved into a well-known resource, earning a reputation for offering some of the most realistic texturing tools available on the retail market.

There’s a reason Andrew’s work is so well-received. He’s spent a great deal of time experimenting with real-world materials to create textures, brushes, and other useful tools for the graphic design space. Beginning with analog textures, the things he creates in the “real” world are later scanned into the computer to enter the digital one.

Details matter where realism is concerned and Andrews remains focused on every single one as he works in Photoshop or Illustrator. His process strives for quality and authenticity and every product released by True Grit Texture Supply is of the highest quality and reliability. 

One of our favorite design assets is Nasty Copy Photocopy Texture Kit, which offers textures, brushes, and a transparency action all in one convenient place.

True Grit Texture Supply said that “over 88.7% of broken photocopiers are caused by fun-loving folks photocopying their asses.” While we can’t confirm this statistic, we’ll take their word for it — no one wants to deal with cracked glass, expensive repair bills, or stern reprimands from the boss man.

Nasty Copy Photocopy Texture Kit works with Adobe Photoshop CS6 or higher, providing designers with everything they need to create realistic photocopy textures in moments. Driven by a Smart PSD template with more than 40 texture layers (8×11”, 300dpi), this kit offers a variety of 30 photocopy textures in high resolution (8×12”, 1200dpi) that are perfect for both print and digital design projects.

Including a Photoshop transparency action that provides instant background removal of bitmap textures, Nasty Copy Photocopy Texture Kit includes 7 toner grit brushes that enable designers to fine-tune their work.

The beauty of this product is that it “recreates the low-fi aesthetic of pre-digital copiers” in a completely non-destructive way — your original image will remain alive and well, no matter what you do to it. Offering endless combinations of foreground, background, and grit detailing, Nasty Copy Photocopy Texture Kit provides one-click editing of paper and toner color.

Versatility is key with this tool kit: if you don’t want to use the Smart PSD functionality, you can add any of the photocopy textures to your existing Photoshop (or Illustrator) files using the included texture library and brush set! 

Geared toward intermediate to expert Photoshop users, Nasty Copy Photocopy Texture Kit includes an installation guide, a PSD template user guide and tutorial, a bitmap texture user guide and tutorial, and a thumbnail preview “cheat sheet” booklet.

As we mentioned earlier, this is designed to work with Photoshop CS6 or above. True Grit Texture Supply recommends using a computer with a 2.4ghz processor (or higher) with at least 8gb of RAM (16+ is recommended). Included actions will run in English only.

True Grit Texture Supply currently offers 26 products through YouWorkForThem, offering a variety of authentic texturing tools for Photoshop, Illustrator, and Procreate. Visit their portfolio to check out the rest of their products and bookmark it so you won’t miss out on future releases!