Free Photoshop Brushes

February 9, 2007 by · 157 Comments 
Lists, Photoshop

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

157 Responses to “Free Photoshop Brushes”
  1. Jason Gaylor says:
    February 9, 2007 at 4:22 pm

    Yeah! Thanks for the props.

  2. Oli says:
    February 9, 2007 at 6:12 pm

    No worries, cheers for the great brushes!

  3. Josiah Pugh says:
    February 10, 2007 at 11:55 am

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

  4. Porcelain Duck says:
    February 10, 2007 at 1:37 pm

    sweet! thanka a lot for putting this together

  5. faith says:
    February 10, 2007 at 6:13 am

    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?

  6. Oli says:
    February 10, 2007 at 3:05 pm

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

  7. Ian says:
    February 10, 2007 at 3:09 pm

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

  8. Mjuboy says:
    February 10, 2007 at 3:50 pm

    Great brushes, buddy.

    Thanks a lot!

  9. Oli says:
    February 10, 2007 at 5:40 pm

    They’re all free!

  10. ia says:
    February 10, 2007 at 6:04 pm

    Wow ! Great job ! Thanks !

  11. Joost says:
    February 10, 2007 at 7:03 pm

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

  12. ScottY says:
    February 10, 2007 at 12:12 pm

    Cheers for this, some awesome brushes here.

  13. dtamas says:
    February 10, 2007 at 12:51 pm

    Nice collection. Thanks!

  14. Anthony Persaud says:
    February 10, 2007 at 5:36 pm

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

  15. Rekzai says:
    February 10, 2007 at 7:13 pm

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

  16. Katie says:
    February 11, 2007 at 3:20 am

    Very helpful, thanks for putting the links together!

  17. Andrea says:
    February 11, 2007 at 7:18 am

    Thank you very much m8.

  18. subcorpus says:
    February 11, 2007 at 7:59 am

    awesome stuff …
    thanks …

  19. Auron says:
    February 11, 2007 at 4:57 am

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

  20. Logotipos says:
    February 11, 2007 at 3:52 pm

    Thanks a lot, dude!

  21. John says:
    February 11, 2007 at 7:34 pm

    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:
    February 12, 2007 at 6:55 am

    Nice collection.Thanx a lot!

  23. Medica says:
    February 12, 2007 at 9:46 pm

    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:
    February 13, 2007 at 7:51 pm

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

  25. Luciano says:
    February 13, 2007 at 11:50 pm

    Excelente. Gran trabajo. Gracias. !!!

  26. Kodan says:
    February 14, 2007 at 12:16 am

    Thank you, people for that good work:)

  27. munu says:
    February 14, 2007 at 6:38 am

    Thanks. Awesome.

  28. nelchee says:
    February 15, 2007 at 8:21 pm

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

  29. Cheloo Emil says:
    February 16, 2007 at 7:07 pm

    thanks man ! I will use this brushes for sure !

  30. Team Brusheezy says:
    February 23, 2007 at 6:27 pm

    Thanks for the link! Great post!

  31. Fjong says:
    February 24, 2007 at 1:32 am

    Coool Thanks man !

  32. senn says:
    March 7, 2007 at 2:02 am

    helpful thx

  33. Tim Leezy says:
    March 8, 2007 at 4:19 pm

    Thanks alot for tha brushes…They r awesome!

  34. Deek says:
    March 15, 2007 at 4:57 pm

    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.

  35. Mohammad says:
    March 16, 2007 at 8:58 am

    thanks , very very Goood

  36. SG says:
    March 23, 2007 at 3:35 am

    These are amazing… and so needed. Thanks !

  37. Timbo says:
    March 26, 2007 at 12:27 am

    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!

  38. juan says:
    March 29, 2007 at 11:14 pm

    ohhhh chet

  39. os says:
    March 30, 2007 at 4:22 pm

    Gracias.. Trksssssss

  40. sdjflkjkl says:
    April 4, 2007 at 2:36 am

    Thank ssssssssssss

  41. tomato says:
    April 4, 2007 at 8:58 am

    정말 고맙습니다
    운영자님 덕분에 너무나 멋진 브러쉬들을
    다운받을수있었네요^^*

    Thanks!

  42. Kam says:
    April 6, 2007 at 6:54 pm

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

  43. bryant1418 says:
    April 8, 2007 at 4:09 am

    thankx

  44. bryant1418 says:
    April 8, 2007 at 4:10 am

    klk

  45. dave says:
    April 11, 2007 at 5:30 am

    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

  46. zack28 says:
    April 28, 2007 at 6:00 pm

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

  47. Steve says:
    May 8, 2007 at 12:01 am

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

  48. Jody T. says:
    May 21, 2007 at 11:30 pm

    Thanks for sharing such awsome brushes!

  49. Karlito says:
    May 27, 2007 at 12:11 pm

    thanks for the brushes. “astig”

  50. J( )seph says:
    June 1, 2007 at 2:21 pm

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

  51. evan says:
    June 2, 2007 at 11:10 pm

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

    getting it though.

  52. Hafida says:
    June 9, 2007 at 4:06 pm

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

  53. Tim Lee says:
    June 11, 2007 at 3:06 pm

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

  54. nanaki says:
    June 16, 2007 at 8:04 am

    Very Cool

  55. ...*...//...*xXx??xXx*...\...*... says:
    June 24, 2007 at 1:35 pm

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  56. Eren says:
    June 30, 2007 at 8:51 am

    wow thanks…

  57. Duy Vu says:
    July 1, 2007 at 7:23 am

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

  58. Matty says:
    July 6, 2007 at 3:58 am

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

  59. eduard says:
    July 30, 2007 at 7:43 pm

    es buenisimo vealo

  60. Brittney says:
    August 15, 2007 at 3:17 am

    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. =]

  61. 流水 says:
    August 16, 2007 at 2:08 pm

    Cool!

  62. suzie says:
    August 18, 2007 at 4:24 am

    thanks, great work…

  63. Ruslan says:
    August 22, 2007 at 6:28 pm

    The flowers rule !

  64. Carrie says:
    August 24, 2007 at 8:16 pm

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

  65. Black Tiger says:
    August 28, 2007 at 9:58 pm

    wonderfull brushes… i like all

  66. Romina says:
    August 29, 2007 at 9:06 pm

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

    Visited my page: http://www.underdesign.com.ar

  67. Becks says:
    September 2, 2007 at 1:44 am

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

  68. Emiliano Pennisi says:
    September 7, 2007 at 10:06 am

    My Photoshop Brushes:

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

    Thanks, Emiliano:)

  69. Laah says:
    September 7, 2007 at 7:26 pm

    :) (: :D :x
    :@

  70. Best says:
    September 9, 2007 at 8:39 pm

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

  71. Kat says:
    September 9, 2007 at 8:45 pm

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

  72. oyunlar says:
    September 10, 2007 at 11:56 am

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

  73. libigo says:
    September 12, 2007 at 3:50 pm

    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

  74. Tom Warner says:
    September 13, 2007 at 10:51 am

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

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

  75. john says:
    September 14, 2007 at 10:28 am

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

  76. ingilizce kursu says:
    September 14, 2007 at 4:08 pm

    Nice brushes but i didn’t download this :S

  77. kozmetik says:
    September 14, 2007 at 5:53 pm

    Wonderful brushesss.

  78. oyun sitesi says:
    September 15, 2007 at 9:46 pm

    Wonderful brushes.

  79. oyun says:
    September 17, 2007 at 9:10 am

    nice collection thanks a lot

  80. D. [RIOT] says:
    September 18, 2007 at 6:18 am

    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.

  81. damak tadı says:
    September 18, 2007 at 1:38 pm

    thank you tutorial blog ;) good work

  82. CmFmFan says:
    September 18, 2007 at 2:13 pm

    thanks for your efforts :)

  83. Root2000.Com Link Directory says:
    September 18, 2007 at 7:15 pm

    Thanks good article

  84. vbulletin eklentileri says:
    September 18, 2007 at 1:20 pm

    nice collection thanks a lot ;)

  85. vbulletin eklentileri says:
    September 18, 2007 at 1:23 pm

    thank you tutorial blogs ;)

  86. forum says:
    September 18, 2007 at 1:25 pm

    thank you good job ;)

  87. Msn Nickleri says:
    September 19, 2007 at 12:18 pm

    thank you :D

  88. s-lan says:
    September 20, 2007 at 3:59 pm

    Very nice thank you

  89. Wellnesshotel says:
    September 22, 2007 at 11:35 am

    great brushes

  90. Komik Video says:
    September 24, 2007 at 11:05 pm

    thanks.. good brushes.

  91. Emma Watson says:
    September 24, 2007 at 11:06 pm

    very good!

  92. bilgisayar kursu ankara says:
    September 24, 2007 at 11:12 pm

    Very nice graphics.

  93. kurslar.net says:
    September 24, 2007 at 11:14 pm

    Very nice.

  94. cans says:
    September 25, 2007 at 12:21 am

    Very nice graphics.

  95. john says:
    September 25, 2007 at 12:20 am

    Beautiful.

  96. Elisha Cuthbert says:
    September 26, 2007 at 12:44 am

    thankx :D

  97. Msn Nickleri says:
    September 26, 2007 at 12:45 am

    thank you :)

  98. beÅŸiktaÅŸ says:
    September 27, 2007 at 8:10 pm

    thanks a lot

  99. BOOM! Directory says:
    September 28, 2007 at 5:37 pm

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

  100. Aliyev says:
    September 29, 2007 at 4:14 pm

    thanks for brushes

  101. Tomas says:
    September 29, 2007 at 4:15 pm

    thank you

  102. Lincoln says:
    September 29, 2007 at 4:16 pm

    thanks

  103. evden eve nakliyat says:
    October 1, 2007 at 3:15 am

    thanks you web sites

  104. evden eve nakliyat says:
    October 1, 2007 at 3:27 am

    thank youu

  105. Estetik says:
    October 1, 2007 at 8:54 am

    Thanks…

  106. Matbaa says:
    October 1, 2007 at 8:54 am

    Thank you..

  107. Estetik says:
    October 1, 2007 at 9:01 am

    Harika :)

  108. mirc indir says:
    October 1, 2007 at 10:07 pm

    thanks.

  109. Jezziik says:
    October 2, 2007 at 11:31 pm

    Thnx

  110. tasarım says:
    October 3, 2007 at 5:49 am

    thank you. its nice article.

  111. Non Fa3re says:
    October 6, 2007 at 10:21 am

    So much fun, thank you!

  112. Non Fa3re says:
    October 6, 2007 at 10:22 am

    Amazing!

  113. mp3 indir says:
    October 6, 2007 at 11:21 pm

    thanks tutorial.

  114. mirc indir says:
    October 6, 2007 at 11:59 pm

    thanks

  115. www.r10.net küresel ısınmaya hayır seo yarışması says:
    October 7, 2007 at 3:10 am

    thanks a lot man

  116. Johan says:
    October 7, 2007 at 6:24 pm

    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.

  117. Toni says:
    October 8, 2007 at 7:21 am

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

  118. Forum Arasira says:
    October 8, 2007 at 10:57 am

    thanx a Lot

  119. thogori says:
    October 10, 2007 at 3:53 pm

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

  120. dj jolyn says:
    October 11, 2007 at 3:52 am

    wena vola cauros :D

  121. bobby says:
    October 11, 2007 at 8:06 am

    thanks so much for all thıs photoshop brushes

  122. Newton says:
    October 15, 2007 at 2:48 pm

    good resource ! thumb up !

  123. Silvia says:
    October 16, 2007 at 2:44 am

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

    S*

  124. christina says:
    October 16, 2007 at 7:28 pm

    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

  125. bilim says:
    October 18, 2007 at 12:02 pm

    thank you

  126. Alex says:
    October 18, 2007 at 6:20 pm

    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.

  127. Web says:
    October 19, 2007 at 12:10 am

    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.

  128. porthc says:
    October 19, 2007 at 1:30 pm

    cool …

  129. Black Arts says:
    October 19, 2007 at 1:31 pm

    thank you

  130. photograper says:
    October 19, 2007 at 1:31 pm

    nice …

  131. teknoloji says:
    October 19, 2007 at 1:50 pm

    I like them all

  132. history says:
    October 19, 2007 at 1:53 pm

    These are really really nice.

  133. scarlett says:
    October 19, 2007 at 1:55 pm

    Nice collection

  134. capital says:
    October 19, 2007 at 1:59 pm

    thanks

  135. samba says:
    October 19, 2007 at 7:20 pm

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  136. Silvia says:
    October 20, 2007 at 1:01 am

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

    S*

  137. FernandexAlex says:
    October 20, 2007 at 11:27 pm

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

  138. www.amok.lv says:
    October 26, 2007 at 1:09 pm

    Some brushes is very well!

  139. Jason says:
    October 26, 2007 at 8:36 pm

    great Photoshop brushes. Great for any designer. thanks!

  140. boris says:
    October 29, 2007 at 4:27 pm

    Thanks.

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

  141. Agilius says:
    November 8, 2007 at 8:56 pm

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

  142. blah says:
    November 10, 2007 at 12:07 am

    awesome

  143. Fatih says:
    November 10, 2007 at 1:06 am

    Those grungy typography brushes are damn fine looking. Downloaded.

  144. MoldySprinkle says:
    November 15, 2007 at 12:49 am

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

  145. nadine says:
    November 15, 2007 at 10:04 am

    THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH!

  146. jdm says:
    November 16, 2007 at 1:04 pm

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

  147. Yemek Tarifleri says:
    November 19, 2007 at 8:41 am

    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

  148. beÅŸiktaÅŸ says:
    November 25, 2007 at 10:12 am

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  149. Grup hepsi says:
    November 27, 2007 at 3:40 pm

    thanks a lot

  150. prang says:
    November 28, 2007 at 6:11 pm

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

  151. Masoud says:
    December 12, 2007 at 12:02 pm

    wow
    its really really wonder
    thx alot
    ;)

  152. amin pishevari says:
    December 13, 2007 at 10:32 am

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

  153. Shruti says:
    December 14, 2007 at 4:13 am

    wonderful brushes…wow thnx a lot!

  154. loadbrush says:
    December 16, 2007 at 8:23 am

    thank a lot.

  155. hikaye says:
    December 17, 2007 at 10:37 am

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

  156. ceren moray says:
    March 27, 2008 at 1:14 pm

    thanks ceren moray

  157. estetik says:
    March 28, 2008 at 6:15 am

    Great post. Thanks for sharing.