The Best FREE Photoshop Brushes

BittBox is more than just a site full of great brushes--it's a designer resource! You will find large brushes, fonts, vectors and links to all sorts of great stuff you can use in your designs at BittBox. It's one of my most favorite blogs!

These images here are part dirty watercolor brush, part leaf brush. Both can be found here.

You can find terms of use info here: TOU

I have several brushes from Obsidian Dawn in my personal stash. These swirly flowers shown here are a part of my favorite collection (Swirls II). And there are about 100 more where these came from. Drop in and download. Then enjoy!

You can also use these brushes commercially! You can find the terms of use for these brushes here: TOU

There are not only a ton of great brushes for free at Seishido, there are also several sets for sale at some really reasonable prices. There are also commercial licenses available, again at good rates!

This brush here is part of a collection entitled "Finally" and they are some of my favorite brushes from Seishido-but honestly, it's hard to pick just one!

Licensing information for commercial use can be found here: TOU

Another set of giant brushes I love to use were designed by the Flyguy, Dan Spencer. My favorite sets were discovered on Brusheezy: Fly Trap and Geisel Garden (shown here). Sample brushes for other collections are also available.

If you have a few dollars to spend, be sure to check out the great packs for sale at Flyguy Designs and DesignFruit. Lots of eye candy there--and very reasonable, too. Not only that--you will find free samples in the shop at DesignFruit!

These brushes from 1LovesDevine are also huge (in the 1500 px range). And they include some of the coolest paisley elements, too! There are two brushes shown here, one from the Paisley Love collection (v5) and the other from the v6 collection. Plus, there are even more designs to download in the gallery. Enjoy!

I used to only have PSP, so I know how you guys feel looking at all the nice .abr ("Adobe Brush") files, wondering how to get into to them and get at all the pretty brushes. Here's what you can do!

1) Download abrViewer, a nifty program that will open up an .abr file, allow you to look at each brush and save them as .png files!

2) Install the program and click on the Select Folder button to locate where you've saved your .abr files.

3) Load the brushes into abrViewer and then select Export > Thumbnails. Save into a new folder. This folder will then automatically open for you when you're done!

4) Open the new .png files in PSP to save them as brushes one at a time. One thing to note: you can only have brushes up to 500 px in size, so you may need to resize your images first.

5) To make a new brush in PSP, select File > Export > Custom Brush. Name your brush and then go to town!

Enjoy!