Making custom brushes isn't something you might normally think of doing to enhance a project, however, this project showed me that they can be handy and made from anything. You can make a big brick wall brush, or a texture made from paper (can look like a rock).
The first logo uses the Avenged Sevenfold skull logo, and the background smoke/lightning is made from my first brush that is made from a scrunched up piece of paper. In addition, the skull logo was hand cropped around the whole thing! The other logos utilize the same outer ring, but different custom brushes were used on the inside.
This is a made up concert poster for Avenged Sevenfold. My best logo (radial) is in the center, and i added text for info, and a halloween themed background. The text that says "Avenged Sevenfold" is from a separate PNG in Adobe Fireworks. Furthermore, the text has additional effects of color overlay and stroke.