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This collection includes 20 Floral with Flourish designs in custom shape format and brush format for use in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. PNG files are also provided for other software users.
Download a free bubble brush set for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.
Download free brush sets for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. This collection includes sparkle brushes which can be used for highlight or reflection "glints" and stars to add sparkle to your designs.
Download several sets of free high-resolution brushes for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. These brushes are based on Christian symbols and includes crosses, doves, fish, stars, and many more Christian objects and symbols.
Free dingbat brush tips from your Guide. Compatible with Photoshop version 4 and higher.
Free dingbat brush tips from your Guide. Compatible with Photoshop version 4 and higher.
Free dingbat brush tips from your Guide. Compatible with Photoshop version 4 and higher.
Free dingbat brush tips from your Guide. Compatible with Photoshop version 4 and higher.
How to load brushes from the brush palette menu in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.
Blinding-Light brush sets include butterflies, Christmas, feathers, flowers, grunge, leaves, pixel, shapes, and swirly brushes.
Currently offers 722 brushes in 33 sets for Photoshop CS and earlier versions. Site displays a preview of each set so you can download the ones you like.
"A place for artists to download and vote for the best custom Photoshop brushes and Photoshop patterns on the internet!"
Brush sets include films and old projectors, corners, barcodes, angels and roses, bloody words, water and drops, butterflies, old writings, faeries, handwriting, paper, spikes and chains, trees, eyes, flowers, and leaf.
"20 large-format, highly detailed brushes that attempt, within the confines of Photoshop's paint engine, to replicate the behavior of common media applicators, including cloth, rags, rollers and sponges."
25 brushes " that emulate natural media in a variety of uses, including edges, tips, sides and softer applications. If you don't find exactly what you need in this particular collection, it will be easy enough for you to modify these brushes to find the exact look you're trying to create."
"30 individual brushes using a wide variety of brush tips. They're all textured, customizable and, of course, free."
35 assorted custom brushes for Adobe Photoshop 7... ranging from soft, textured brushes to "Spirographic" effects that can follow the motion of your stroke or even be used to stroke a path. All of them use various dynamics in the Photoshop 7 Paint Engine to achieve their effects--scattering, directionality, pressure support for opacity, etc."
"In this first series of distress brushes, I've tried to stay away from anything that might smack of a preset, such as specific shapes for stains, tears and the like. Instead, these brushes are designed to create more subtle distress textures. In all, there are 30 such brushes in this collection."
"25 textured brushes for creating backgrounds for your canvas, adding distress effects to images or just painting with different media styles."
"30 individually textured, dynamic brushes for Macintosh and Windows."
"35 nature-themed texture brushes... designed to create quick background textures, floral patterns and the like with dynamic colors, sizes and shapes."
"25 squiggle brushes for creating complex textures effects... based on chaotic line patterns, which, when applied, can produce anything from rough edges to highly detailed, deep background textures."
"25 bristled and textured brushes... About half of the brushes in this week's collection actually resemble bristle brushes. The other half fall into the more general category of "textured brushes," which I've kept in the collection because I think they'll be useful for creating some unique, rich backgrounds for your artwork or even serve as the basis for generating your own texture patterns."
25 brushes for cloud and vapor trail effects. "The cloud brushes (17 in total) use large nibs and scattering for producing skyscapes, while the vapor trail brushes use smaller nibs and tighter scattering to produce thin jet (or rocket) trails, as well as smoke columns or anything else you can come up with."
26 brushes for hair and fur effects.
"A collection of brushes designed to emulate children's crayons, as well as variations on chalk, some similar to the kind you'd use on a chalkboard, others more pastel-like."
"30 individual brushes, including 10 puffy cloud brushes, designed to scatter and produce random formations; seven lightning brushes, including individual brushes to create forking effects; various lighting brushes to create light rays, light burst and aurora borealis effects; and several moon brushes, which generate images of the moon at various phases."
"15 medium- to large-scale brushes for Photoshop designed to create textured effects for backgrounds, ranging from canvas-like materials to rough stone. They can also be used to produce distress or texture effects over images."
25 brushes for creating dust and trail effects by Dave Nagel.
20 textured, dynamic brushes By Dave Nagel.
25 nature-themed background brushes by David Nagel.
"20 individual tools for creating hair and fur effects... from short and curly hair to long and wild."
"20 brushes for generating a variety of skin textures--from somewhat smooth skin to freckles, pock marks and blemishes."
"25 individual brushes for creating hair effects--eyebrows, moustaches, body hair, etc."
"25 individual brushes designed to emulate natural media, ranging from variations on bristle brushes--dry, loaded and creamy, from subtle streaks to sparse lines--to textured charcoals and soft pastels. It also includes some brushes designed for painting background textures to use as backgrounds."
"30 brushes designed to simulate a variety of strand types--long, short, curly, straight and wavy--for applications like texture mapping for 3D objects or compositing in 2D images."
"25 brushes covering grass and moss, sand and dirt, rock and other natural textures. Each one of these brushes includes its own set of dynamics and unique nibs, and they are all, of course, fully customizable to suit your needs better.'
"20 individual brushes, each with unique nibs, for creating skin textures. Some are meant to be used singly, others in combination to produce greater detail--such as cellular patterns, lines, blemishes and the like. Each includes its own set of full dynamics, which can be modified to suit your own needs."
"21 brushes designed to emulate the appearance (and sometimes the behavior) of traditional drawing and painting tools, such as charcoal, pastel, bristle brushes and the like."
"30 brushes for producing textile-inspired textures, such as burlap and wool, and can be used to create textures for 3D objects or to create backgrounds for 2D images."
"20 custom brushes designed to produce highly detailed human and animal surface textures. These include scales, bumpy surfaces, wrinkled surfaces and rough surfaces that can be used to simulate a wide variety of textures."
An assortment of free brushes in both .jbr (Paint Shop Pro) and .abr (Photoshop) formats.
This pack contains 15 fingerprints brushes.
"These brushes are big, and meant for print. You can use them for Web stuff as well, but you will need to size them down. Most of them are around 1800 pixels wide."
These brushes are big, and meant for print. You can use them for Web stuff as well, but you will need to size them down. Most of them are around 1800 pixels wide.
"All of the brushes reviewed by us are rated and categorized by brush type, author, quality and Adobe Photoshop version, plus documented with an example of usage and a screenshot for each brush set, to help you easily find and download the right Photoshop brush pack for your artistic needs."
"I made a new brush set called 'Home Plans'. It's several brushes that you can use to build your own dream house with, including balconies, secret passageways, interior and exterior French doors, single and double fireplaces, staircases, bannisters and porch/deck railings, and a lot more."
"Over 40 brush sets for Photoshop 7 and up. Lace, paint, ornaments, wings, barcodes, old paper, grunge textures, wings, symbols, borders, flowers, spider webs, graffiti, various objects and many more."
This free set of leaf brushes is devoted to the simple, elegant leaf.
Large collection of unique, free brush sets offered free for non-commercial use.
"This is a Photoshop brush search engine. Brushes are manually selected and categorized. More than 600 brush sets have been listed. Everybody can suggest his own brush sets for inclusion."
Airplane, hands, twirls, and circle brush sets. All free for personal, non-commercial use.
"The Botched Ornaments 01 are made up of a handful of decorative elements each distressed to varying degrees. The images were sourced from an old clip-art book, scanned, cleaned up, and weathered accordingly."
"Some of the brushes depict cartoon bubbles, allowing for that simple touch. Others aim to be more photographic in their nature. I find that both kinds have their uses in different situations."
"A brush set with over 25 heart brushes... includes two main sizes of hearts, small and large, but of course the brushes can be adjusted to any size you like."
A brush set including both realistic and cartoon lightning brushes.
Give your photos a 'snapshot' look with these Polaroid brushes.
Around 75 music-themed brushes in the set. Many are small symbols, but there are some larger brushes depicting entire sheet music sections, for that 'fuller' look you sometimes need for backgrounds.
"You'll find snowflake brushes, both realistic and stylistic. There are snow brushes, to set the scene or add atmosphere. I've made ice brushes, for a pond or a background! And even icicle brushes, to add impact or definition."
"The brush set includes two types of stars. Most of the stars are of the symbolic type, which can be used in many situations. Some of the later stars can be used to create more realistic effects, for those photographic night skies."
"The brushes come in several flavors, from the traditional artistic flick, to more geometric, almost mathematical, constructions. Because swirls come in many shapes and sizes, it seemed logical that any decent swirl brush set would need a wide range of different swirl brushes."
Download free pumpkin brush and star brush sets.
Several free sets including eyes, grunge, blueprints, signs, flowers, scratches. The brushes are compatible with Photoshop CS.
Paper, texture, patterns, smoke, lines, squares, swirls, vintage, pin-ups, flowers, fruits, butterfly, fireworks, autumn, clouds, cats, dogs, postage, lace, toile, and more brushes for Photoshop 7 and up. All sets have image-packs, so you can use them in pretty much any program.
"I embarked on a journey last week to create some tattoo inspired brushes. I sat down with some graph paper, a pencil, and some tattoo magazines. Taking cues from some of my favorites I drew several designs, scanned them, traced my sketches in Illustrator, converted my art to vector, and then I brought them into Photoshop and made a nice little set of brushes for you." Also in PNG format.
Hundreds of brushes for Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro and other software, indexed with keywords and categories.
Worn, tattered, distressed Photoshop brushes for working with high resolution.
"I had so much fun making the first round of brushes I stayed up last night making these. Again these are quite large brushes, so they are mainly for working with materials meant for print."
The third set of worn brushes from Jason Gaylor.
Two sets of free brushes: Flowers, and Bugs and Arachnids.
