You probably know how to manually create a path around an object you want to separate from its background. Photoshop’s Magnetic Lasso Tool can speed this process up a little for you.

You need to know a few tips though, all provided in this tutorial.

You can view this tutorial here.

This is great. Here come 12 free Photoshop Brushes of grungy, destroyed wall textures – all are as big as 2500 pixels.

If you don’t know how to install Photoshop Brushes, you might want to read this post first.

The brushes look like this:

You can download this kit right here. Bittbox also delivers the PNG source of the brushes!

Here are some very nice and inspiring retro background patterns for your website. They are all tileable and come ready for download in GIF format for both Windows and Apple.

Go to this site here.

Looking for a tiled background for your website? Why not make one yourself! Take a look at this free, fully web-based generator.

You can specify the width and height and you see your ‘design’ in a live preview on the background of your screen. Once you’re done, you simply hit ’save’ and you can save your creation as a on your computer – ready for use with your website!

Check it out for yourself here.

Here is a good tutorial on extracting hair from a background in Adobe Photoshop. You need to know a little bit of Photoshop to follow it, although it’s pretty thorough and explains each step very well.

This tutorial is adapted from the book “Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 Maximum Performance” by Mark Galer. It produces more sophisticated results than other techniques. If you are looking for a more easy tutorial using the Photoshop Extract Filter, you may want to take a look at this post on selecting frizzy hair on Beeex.net first.

You can view this tutorial here.

Looking for beautiful and extraordinary wallpapers for your desktop? You can find them here! (from Designer Nick La)

Nick La runs his blog Ndesign Studio and shares his amazing designs with you. All free, of course.

Go to the download site here. You can choose between different formats and screen resolutions.

Here come six nice, dark, baroque-style, seamless patterns for your website background. They are 350px times 200px each and tileable without a hitch.

You simply define them as background for your website and they fill up the screen with 6 classic styles.

You can download this .zip pack here!

This is one great free texture stock photography site. They have over 280 destroyed, dirty, grunge photos all in Hi-Res for you to download for free!

Check it out here.