Free Photoshop Brushes

February 9, 2007 by Oli · 193 Comments 

Every good designer needs an arsenal of brushes to use within Photoshop, whether its a grunge effect or some tehno swirls that are required there is sure to be a brush that fits your needs. Here we have dugg out the very best we could find. If there isn’t a suitable brush, we have also included some links on how to create your own.




  • Foliage Brushes – These brushes are big, and meant for print. You can use them for Web stuff as well, but you might need to size them down. Most of them are around 1800 pixels wide.
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  • Gabriele Magurno – Excellent collect of high quality brushes.
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  • VPDesigns Omega Brush Set 200+ – Inside you will find grunge sets, vector/tech sets, cloud brushes, fractals, abstract sets, all in all there are some 200+ brushes within 9 collections.
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  • Anodyne Light Brushes – A beautiful collection of magical light brushes for Photoshop.
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  • Jenn B’s Hair Brushes – Small yet splendid set of human hair brushes based on her own scanned locks/curls and they look great.
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  • Typographic Grunge Brushes – A random collection of grungy, decayed typographic brushes.
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  • Misprinted Type – Excellent collection of grunge brushes
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  • Angryblue – A collection of grunge brushes and bloodspots etc.
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  • Veerle’s Blog – Tutorial on how to create yourown grunge brushes.
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  • Photoshop Brush List – From photoshop support, large collection of links to brush downloads.
  • Brushfind – Brush search engine.
  • Miss M – Photoshop brushes, loads of different categories.
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  • Worn Photoshop Brushes For High Resolution – If you are new to the brushes that I make, you should know that they are mainly for working with materials meant for print. You can use them for Web stuff as well, but you might need to size them down.
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  • Tasty Tattooâ„¢ Photoshop Brushes – Tattoos, Tatoos, Tattos, Body Art, Super Cool Body Paint For Your Mom, whatever you want to call it.
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  • Graffiti Photoshop Brushes – Graffiti styled brushes in high resolution for print.
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  • Massive list of Photoshop Brushes – tutorialtomb forum presents a list of brushes.
  • PSBrushes – 368 photoshop brushes listed in categories.
  • Brusheezy – Stupid Name. Cool Brushes! Categorised photoshop brushes.
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  • Make your own brushes – Good tutorial on how to make brushes.
  • Coffee Stain Brushes – Photoshop brushes, at one point in your life you’ll probably have a need for a good old fashioned coffee stain and this collection is just the right thing.
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  • Desert Cracks Brushes – Large scale, high quality texture brushes of desert and dry ground cracks.
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  • Abstract8 Brush Set – A beautiful, energetic abstract collection of Photoshop brushes.
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  • Deviant Art Brushes – Thousands of user-created brushed at Deviant Art community.
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  • Hazard Brushes – Warning ahead! This is an interesting brush set, showing a bunch of warning signs, exit signs, biohazard signs and so on.
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  • VBrush – Large collection of photoshop brushes
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Comments

193 Responses to “Free Photoshop Brushes”
  1. Jason Gaylor - http://www.songfruit.com says:

    Yeah! Thanks for the props.

  2. Oli - http://tutorialblog.org says:

    No worries, cheers for the great brushes!

  3. faith - http://www.soleilwebhosting.com says:

    Thank you for the list! I’ve done my own research for Photoshop brushes and I think I’ve pretty much saw everything but your list got some that got my attention. :) Great brushes… how did you find them?

  4. Josiah Pugh - http://www.eternallyaddicted.com says:

    These are really really nice. I wish I had the hair brush back when I did a lot of 3D+Photoshop art.

  5. ScottY - http://www.freewebs.com/scottsphotoshopart/ says:

    Cheers for this, some awesome brushes here.

  6. dtamas - http://www.dtamas.dynamo.hu says:

    Nice collection. Thanks!

  7. Porcelain Duck - http://www.porcelainduck.com says:

    sweet! thanka a lot for putting this together

  8. Oli - http://tutorialblog.org says:

    Thanks for the comments,
    Faith – the list was compiled by going through del.icio.us, google and my own bookmarks.

  9. Ian - says:

    Another good site for Photoshop resources:
    http://www.22pixels.com

  10. Mjuboy - http://www.krishnamoorthi.com says:

    Great brushes, buddy.

    Thanks a lot!

  11. Anthony Persaud - http://www.rexystudios.com says:

    Great find! I’m glad some of the ones I liked in this article are a free download.

  12. Oli - http://tutorialblog.org says:

    They’re all free!

  13. ia - says:

    Wow ! Great job ! Thanks !

  14. Joost - http://www.freetube.us.tc says:

    Great list, more at deviant art if you look up brushes.

  15. Rekzai - http://www.thugonline.ulmb.com says:

    Excellent list I’m gonna be downloading a lot today :)

  16. Katie - http://www.pibby.com says:

    Very helpful, thanks for putting the links together!

  17. Auron - http://auronprophecy.com says:

    Thank you, we can never get enough of these tutorial and tool lists!

  18. Andrea - says:

    Thank you very much m8.

  19. subcorpus - http://www.subcorpus.net/blog/ says:

    awesome stuff …
    thanks …

  20. Logotipos - http://www.von-design.com says:

    Thanks a lot, dude!

  21. John - http://www.monomachines.com says:

    Pretty sic. Now if I just had the skills to make my images look like the ones above I’d be a happy man. It’s like buying $200 shoes and thinking that I’m going to be able to jump higher.

    —-
    John
    http://www.monomachines.com

  22. Amiyu - says:

    Nice collection.Thanx a lot!

  23. Medica - says:

    These are great! But you left out one of my favorite sites for brushes! Just in case you hadn’t found it yet…

    http://www.brushes.obsidiandawn.com/

  24. rXp - says:

    O M G !! ThX !!!! I love you !

  25. Luciano - says:

    Excelente. Gran trabajo. Gracias. !!!

  26. Kodan - says:

    Thank you, people for that good work:)

  27. munu - says:

    Thanks. Awesome.

  28. nelchee - http://inobscuro.com/brushes/ says:

    This “very best” list is missing only one thing – my brushes :)

  29. Cheloo Emil - http://www.highdesign.ro/ says:

    thanks man ! I will use this brushes for sure !

  30. Team Brusheezy - http://www.brusheezy.com says:

    Thanks for the link! Great post!

  31. Fjong - says:

    Coool Thanks man !

  32. lusia - http://hola says:

    mui wena la pagina

    esoo

    bye bye

  33. senn - says:

    helpful thx

  34. Patty - http://flamingpixels.freepgs.com/fp/home.html says:

    Are these brushes compatible with Fireworks MX 2004? I know some of the photoshop plug-ins will work, but how are the brushes different? I would love to use some of these if I can. Thanks! :)

  35. Tim Leezy - says:

    Thanks alot for tha brushes…They r awesome!

  36. Deek - http://materializedweb.com says:

    Jen you need to load the brushes into your brush folder and then you can choose which brush you want to design with. Their are several options for using brushes and strokes to display the pattern but I’ve found it best to just open up a blank document and start playing around. I am also new to photoshop and you can find a lot of free support for it if you just search through google past the ads. I hope I’ve helped.

    Thanks for the brush links! Exactly what I was looking for.

  37. Mohammad - says:

    thanks , very very Goood

  38. SG - http://sdotg.blogspot.com says:

    These are amazing… and so needed. Thanks !

  39. Timbo - says:

    does anyone know where i can find brushes of workshop tools like hammer, saw, nails, that sort of stuff??

    great brushes by the way i downloaded most of them i’l be having some fun with these!

  40. Kurt - http://www.abundadocapeta.com.br says:

    muito show
    vou baixar todos sinistro
    falow

  41. juan - http://www.todoyo.com says:

    ohhhh chet

  42. os - says:

    Gracias.. Trksssssss

  43. sdjflkjkl - http://www.igsky.com says:

    Thank ssssssssssss

  44. tomato - says:

    정말 고맙습니다
    운영자님 덕분에 너무나 멋진 브러쉬들을
    다운받을수있었네요^^*

    Thanks!

  45. Kam - http://www.dizajnfor.republika.pl says:

    That’s a grate brushes. It’s really good work. Every designer will need some of them.

  46. bryant1418 - says:

    thankx

  47. bryant1418 - says:

    klk

  48. dave - http://www.aaaphotoshop.com says:

    Tutorial blog compiles a list of excellent free Photos hop-brushes for all needs. My personal favorite: the Foliage set. Go get these……
    This is very interesting article click on the link Photoshop tutorial

  49. Roisina - http://www.bebo.lil-miss-dozeyrozey.com says:

    hey im making bebo skins!! neways… Im having trouble uploading the brushes onto photoshop… could anyone explain to me how you upload them??? thanx!!

  50. zack28 - says:

    Would be helpful if you could search for categories,
    otherwise cool. Good to have it in bookmark.

  51. Steve - http://thegofigure.com says:

    Thank very much!!!!!!!!!!

  52. guilty - http://www.silqi.com says:

    thanks you

  53. ugur - http://www.sitekurulur.com says:

    thank you

  54. AHIDMOR - http://None says:

    I think your really nice!!! Thanks for the brushes and thanks for the explanations you gave us about them!! How can I help you to have new brushes?? Coul’d be nice to share the brushes that I create!

  55. Jody T. - says:

    Thanks for sharing such awsome brushes!

  56. Karlito - says:

    thanks for the brushes. “astig”

  57. J( )seph - says:

    Tis is freaking awesome!!!!!!!!!Thx vy much!!!!!!!!

  58. evan - says:

    This list is awesome, but unfortunalty(Sp) i dont have photoshop.

    getting it though.

  59. Hafida - says:

    Fantastic!!! Thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  60. Tim Lee - says:

    Thx. These brushes ROCK!!!! Woooo!!!!

  61. nanaki - http://yokeiju.wordpress.com says:

    Very Cool

  62. ...*...//...*xXx??xXx*...\...*... - says:

    WHEN ii TRii TU UPLOAD BRUSHES ON FOTOSHOP THEii HAV TUU B BRUSH FORMATT ND MiiN RNT SAVED iiN THT FORMATT..

    HOW DU ii UPLOAD EM SOOO..?

    FNX

  63. Eren - http://www.kulturbalans.com says:

    wow thanks…

  64. Duy Vu - says:

    Oh! how nice! I love it. Thanks a lot!

  65. Matty - http://www.tropicaan.com says:

    Thanks a heap, I have been looking for brushes for over 10 mins on Google, these are great!

  66. eduard - http://nada says:

    es buenisimo vealo

  67. vanessa - http://www.fotolog.com/vvanessittaa says:

    super bien
    k mas puedo decir

  68. Brittney - says:

    okay I have a question.
    Does anybody have a photoshop
    that can like hmm..ruin your
    face i suppose you can say.
    just like this picture. =]

  69. 流水 - says:

    Cool!

  70. suzie - http://www.tutsbuzz.com says:

    thanks, great work…

  71. Ruslan - http://r0man.de says:

    The flowers rule !

  72. Carrie - says:

    Thank you for this wonderful brushes!
    I love them =)

  73. Black Tiger - http://www.resimsite.com says:

    wonderfull brushes… i like all

  74. Romina - http://www.underdesign.com.ar says:

    Hello,
    Thanks fow all information, All brushes is very grate. Sorry for my english, I live in Argentina
    Kisses
    Romina

    Visited my page: www.underdesign.com.ar

  75. Becks - http://www.myspace.com/jambled says:

    Thanks for this! Love some of these sites (okay, love *all* of them). Appreciate the effort you put in to finding them all.

  76. İcedEarth - http://www.galerioto.org says:

    Thank you for this wonderful brushes!
    I love them =)

  77. Emiliano Pennisi - http://www.peamarte.it/02 says:

    My Photoshop Brushes:

    http://www.peamarte.it/02/download.html

    Thanks, Emiliano:)

  78. Laah - says:

    :) (: :D :x
    :@

  79. Best - http://best-web-tutorials.blogspot.com/ says:

    Adobe Photoshop Tutorials : http://best-web-tutorials.blogspot.com/

  80. Kat - says:

    OMG!!! thnx SOO much , your site helped me soo much you cannot belive!!! THNAKS A MILLION!!!!

  81. oyunlar - http://www.kraloyunparki.com says:

    OMG!!! thnx SOO much , your site helped me soo much you cannot belive!!! THNAKS A MILLION!!!!SS

  82. mirc - http://www.mircpark.net says:

    thanksss

  83. libigo - http://www.freegraphicstools.com says:

    Thanks a lot, finding all of these would take a lot of time :) I’m thinking about posting my selfmade brush-library for free use, but I’ll have to “tidy” it up a bit before I do! I’ll let you know though!

    libigo
    http://www.freegraphicstools.com

  84. seatonfoundation.org, seatonfoundation - http://www.seatonfoundation.org says:

    thanks

  85. Tom Warner - http://nikontom.com says:

    I have 3 sets of free brushes consisting of dead trees, asian dancers, and ballet dancers at:

    http://nikontom.com/blog/?p=4906

  86. john - http://www.hayalbahcesi.net says:

    Thank you for this wonderful brushes!
    I love them =) Thanks [http://www.hayalbahcesi.net]

  87. ingilizce kursu - http://www.languageunion.net says:

    Nice brushes but i didn’t download this :S

  88. kozmetik - http://www.sancak.com.tr says:

    Wonderful brushesss.

  89. oyun sitesi - http://www.stiloyun.com says:

    Wonderful brushes.

  90. oyun - http://www.heyoyun.com says:

    nice collection thanks a lot

  91. D. [RIOT] - says:

    This collection of free brushes has been one of the single greatest things to happen to me in the last 2-3 days. I thank you so much.

  92. vbulletin eklentileri - http://www.hayalbahcesi.net/sitemap_index.xml.gz says:

    nice collection thanks a lot ;)

  93. vbulletin eklentileri - http://www.hayalbahcesi.net/sitemap_index.xml.gz says:

    thank you tutorial blogs ;)

  94. forum - http://www.hayalbahcesi.net/sitemap_1.xml.gz says:

    thank you good job ;)

  95. aÅŸk ÅŸiirleri - http://www.hayalbahcesi.net/urllist.txt.gz says:

    thank you ;)

  96. damak tadı - http://www.komple.org says:

    thank you tutorial blog ;) good work

  97. CmFmFan - http://www.cmfmfan.com says:

    thanks for your efforts :)

  98. Root2000.Com Link Directory - http://www.root2000.com says:

    Thanks good article

  99. Gökhan Özen - http://www.gokhanozen.gen.tr says:

    thank you

  100. Msn Nickleri - http://www.msnlife.org says:

    thank you :D

  101. Hollywood Heat - http://www.hollywoodheat.org says:

    thanx ;)

  102. Bylynn Mils - http://www.bylynnmis.com says:

    thank you

  103. Erol - http://www.portalmerkezi.us says:

    thanks :)

  104. s-lan - http://www.s-lan.org says:

    Very nice thank you

  105. Hotel Bayern - http://www. says:

    The brushes are very very cool thanks

  106. Wellnesshotel - http://www.wellness-for-you.de says:

    great brushes

  107. Komik Video - http://www.videoseyret.net says:

    thanks.. good brushes.

  108. Emma Watson - http://www.emmafan.net says:

    very good!

  109. bilgisayar kursu ankara - http://www.ankaradoruk.net says:

    Very nice graphics.

  110. kurslar.net - http://www.kurslar.net says:

    Very nice.

  111. john - http://www.berlinzer.com/ says:

    Beautiful.

  112. cans - http://www.populersite.com says:

    Very nice graphics.

  113. Free directory - http://www.blackmetroweb.com/ says:

    thanks a lot!

  114. pusat - http://www.myrize.org/pusat says:

    thank you :)

  115. Elisha Cuthbert - http://www.elishacuthbert1.com says:

    thankx :D

  116. Gökhan Özen - http://www.gokhanozen.gen.tr says:

    oww what a useful information

  117. Msn Nickleri - http://www.msnlife.org says:

    thank you :)

  118. Video - http://www.colesicehouse.com says:

    thanks man

  119. beÅŸiktaÅŸ - http://www.bjkonline.com says:

    thanks a lot

  120. BOOM! Directory - http://www.boomdirectory.com says:

    Thanks a lot. This is great collection of Photoshop brushes. Very useful.

  121. Aliyev - http://www.realfamiliesrealfacts.net says:

    thanks for brushes

  122. Tomas - http://www.pollopinky.com says:

    thank you

  123. Lincoln - http://www.swrus-icons.com says:

    thanks

  124. mark - http://www.cityofgarlandtx.org says:

    Thanks a lot. This is great collection of Photoshop brushes. Very useful

  125. evden eve nakliyat - http://www.orucoglunakliyat.com says:

    thanks you web sites

  126. evden eve nakliyat - http://www.remaxnakliyat.com says:

    thank youu

  127. Estetik - http://www.estetikonline.net says:

    Thanks…

  128. Matbaa - http://www.matbaacilar.org says:

    Thank you..

  129. Estetik - http://www.yakupavsar.com says:

    Harika :)

  130. mirc indir - http://www.keyfimiz.com says:

    thanks.

  131. Jezziik - http://www.jezziik.hi5.com says:

    Thnx

  132. tasarım - http://www.antalyawebsite.com says:

    thank you. its nice article.

  133. download - http://www.durmaindir.com says:

    very nice. thank you.

  134. Non Fa3re - http://www.mmovp.com/buy-eve-online-c-25.html says:

    So much fun, thank you!

  135. Non Fa3re - http://www.mmovp.com/buy-guild-wars-c-1231.html says:

    Amazing!

  136. mp3 indir - http://www.mandalina.net says:

    thanks tutorial.

  137. mirc indir - http://www.keyfimiz.com says:

    thanks

  138. www.r10.net küresel ısınmaya hayır seo yarışması - http://www.r10.net-kuresel-isinmaya-hayir-seo-yarismasi.com/ says:

    thanks a lot man

  139. free firefox - http://www.freefirefox.us says:

    t h a n k s

  140. Johan - http://www.pilsje.org/ says:

    Every good designer needs an arsenal of brushes to use within photoshop, whether its a grunge effect or some tehno swirls that are required there is sure to be a brush that fits your needs. Here we have dugg out the very best we could find. If there isn’t a suitable brush, we have also included some links on how to create your own.

  141. Toni - http://www.link-beam.com says:

    very nice tips for the photoshop users. thanks a lot!
    br,
    Toni

  142. Forum Arasira - http://www.arasira.net says:

    thanx a Lot

  143. thogori - says:

    i could kiss you for sure!!!!!!!!! thanks a whole lot….FABULOUS BRUSHES

  144. dj jolyn - http://www.djjolyn.cl.nu says:

    wena vola cauros :D

  145. bobby - http://www.marmarissummer.com says:

    thanks so much for all thıs photoshop brushes

  146. Site ekle - http://www.dizinci.net says:

    Good thanks

  147. kavak yelleri - http://www.kavak-yelleri.info says:

    thanks

  148. Newton - http://www.citate-celebre.com says:

    good resource ! thumb up !

  149. Silvia - http://graphics-illustrations.blogspot.com/ says:

    Nice collection :)
    Maybe I’ll be on the list one day…

    S*

  150. christina - says:

    ok ive been downloading brushes all day and i CANT figure out how to put them on my photoshop and im sad and upset because i want ot use the mall so badly,
    please email me with help PLEASEEEE

    forever
    Tina The Zombie
    emorella@hotmail.com

  151. eÅŸref saati - http://www.esrefsaati.us says:

    very good brushers

  152. bilim - http://www.bilimarsivi.com says:

    thank you

  153. Alex - http://www.unitar-pc-alg.org says:

    Every good designer needs an arsenal of brushes to use within photoshop, whether its a grunge effect or some tehno swirls that are required there is sure to be a brush that fits your needs. Here we have dugg out the very best we could find. If there isn’t a suitable brush, we have also included some links on how to create your own.

  154. Web - http://www.intimes-berlin.com says:

    very good designer needs an arsenal of brushes to use within photoshop, whether its a grunge effect or some tehno swirls that are required there is sure to be a brush that fits your needs. Here we have dugg out the very best we could find. If there isn’t a suitable brush, we have also included some links on how to create your own.

  155. porthc - http://www.porthc.org says:

    cool …

  156. Black Arts - http://www.blackarts-literature.org says:

    thank you

  157. photograper - http://bealphotography.com says:

    nice …

  158. movie - http://www.3movieblog.com says:

    very nice tips for the photoshop users. thanks a lot!

  159. conexalia - http://www.conexalia.net says:

    helpful thx

  160. websiteslegal - http://www.websiteslegal.com says:

    very good brushers

  161. teknoloji - http://www.teknohayat.org says:

    I like them all

  162. history - http://www.inkilap.info says:

    These are really really nice.

  163. scarlett - http://www.scarlettjohansson.be says:

    Nice collection

  164. china - http://www.skydragonfoundation.com says:

    wowww thanks

  165. capital - http://www.capitaloftheworld.org says:

    thanks

  166. samba - http://imagination.tk says:

    Photoshop Tutorial Every good designer needs an arsenal of brushes to use within photoshop, whether its a grunge effect or some tehno swirls that are required there is sure to be a brush that fits your needs. Here we have dugg out the very best we could find. If there isnâ (tags: photoshop brushes design) […]

  167. Silvia - http://graphics-illustrations.blogspot.com/ says:

    very useful list, yes!
    I love them!
    /download in process/

    S*

  168. Msn nickleri - http://www.msnix.net says:

    very good brushes. very helpfuly to banner and web desing

  169. FernandexAlex - http://www.dentocafe.com says:

    One of the best and good explained tutorials i have ever seen.
    I learnt so many tricks from this site.
    Thanks

  170. www.amok.lv - http://www.amok.lv says:

    Some brushes is very well!

  171. drcetinerdotorg - http://www.yotzim.org says:

    Very beautifull.

  172. Jason - http://www.boomdirectory.com says:

    great Photoshop brushes. Great for any designer. thanks!

  173. boris - http://www.ooYes.net says:

    Thanks.

    http://www.ooYes.net
    The Best Adobe Brushes Collection

  174. Agilius - http://photoshopxtremetutorials.blogspot.com/ says:

    Grate share. Thanks for the effort and keep going! I’ll link to you soon on my blog ;)

  175. blah - says:

    awesome

  176. Fatih - http://www.gulumsesem.com says:

    Those grungy typography brushes are damn fine looking. Downloaded.

  177. MoldySprinkle - says:

    These brushes are the best I’ve seen! I like the Coffee Stain one…

  178. nadine - says:

    THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH!

  179. jdm - http://www.pce-iberica.es/medidor-detalles-tecnicos/instrumento-de-temperatura/termometro-309.htm says:

    I’m amazing with Jenn B’s Hair Brushes!! This is incredible!!

  180. Yemek Tarifleri - http://www.damak.net says:

    Are these brushes compatible with Fireworks MX 2004? I know some of the photoshop plug-ins will work, but how are the brushes different? I would love to use some of these if I can. Thanks

  181. dxb - http://hi says:

    thanks.it was vere nice

  182. beÅŸiktaÅŸ - http://www.kartalhaber.com says:

    photoshop brushes whether its grunge or techno swirls – here we have dugg out the very best for you.read more | digg story Posted in Uncategorized RSS 2.0

  183. Grup hepsi - http://www.grup-hepsii.com says:

    thanks a lot

  184. prang - http://prangmultiply.com says:

    It very cool!!!!
    I like it+++++
    Thank You for your idea

  185. Masoud - says:

    wow
    its really really wonder
    thx alot
    ;)

  186. amin pishevari - says:

    hello.thank you.these are the best brushes i have ever seen

  187. Shruti - says:

    wonderful brushes…wow thnx a lot!

  188. loadbrush - http://www.loadbrush.com says:

    thank a lot.

  189. hikaye - http://www.hikayeciler.com says:

    hello.thank you.these are the best brushes i have ever seen thanks good article

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  191. estetik - http://www.estetiks.com/ says:

    Great post. Thanks for sharing.

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