Adobe Photoshop Brushes
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Learn about Adobe Photoshop Brushes
Collection of web sites that offer quality free Photoshop brushes, brush tools, tips & tricks.
Read the Photoshop brushes tutorial to learn what brushes are and how to use and make them.
Tips on making, using and organizing brushes may be found below.
Free Adobe Photoshop brushes resources
- In Obscuro Adobe Photoshop Brushes
- Over 40 unique and original Photoshop brushes: pixel, vector, calligraphy, grunge, graffiti, paper textures, swirly, Gothic, flowers, borders, objects, doodles, stamps, icons, ornaments, frames, splatter, ink, glitter, Burton, symbols, wings, postmarks, bar codes, paint, lace, fishnet, foliage, leaves, ivy and many more.
- deviantART brushes
- Many individual artists upload their brushes to deviantART - thousands of brush sets available!
- Hybrid Genesis
- Unique and creative ornamental, textured and special effects brushes, textures, and patterns, updated often.
- GetBrushes
- Brush exchange site, featuring the best Adobe Photoshop brushes on the net and their authors (including some of my own from In obscuro), free PS brush downloads, as well as linking you to the finest Photoshop resources, tutorials and art communities.
- At0mica.net Brushes
- Stamps, matches, leaves, splatters, film, blotches, hearts, stars, sparkles, etc.
- Photoshop brushes
- Characters, grunge scratches, splatters, skulls, scribbles, sketches, bar-codes, leaves etc.
- graphics-illustrations
- corners, Wood Leaves, Grass, negative films and slides, hair, kisses, swirls, floral and swirls, plants, textile, beads and more.
- studio brushes
- Feathers, leaves, grunge, swirls, floral, stars, paper, scratches, signs etc.
- Seishido
- There almost 100 free brush sets, and paid brushes are categorized under: Angelic, Grungy, Artbooked, Japanese, Bubbled, Ornamental, Butterflies, Pixelated, Colored, Poetry, Creative, Romantic, Curly, Seasonal, Dedicated, Sparklies, Doodles, Starful, Dressed, Swirlies, Fantastic, Symbolical, Floral, Textures, Framed.
- Miss M brushes
- Swirls, lyrics, ink, splatters, denim, notes, calculus, flourishes, technical, scratches, sparkles, foliage, victorian, antique, star dust, doodles, abstract, colouds, etc.
- Angelic Trust
- Over 300 free brush sets, but site requires registration.
- Kiss My Pixels
- Valentines, ink drops, butterflies, doodles, skulls, stars, snowflakes, flares, pixels, eyes, daisies, patterns, lines, shapes, statues, owls, swirls, cats, dogs, disney, hello kitty, faeries, music, chickens, wildlife, floral etc.
- Lovely Trash
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- 77 words
- Mediafire member with many brush sets
- Yvonne Wong brushes
- Simplistic modern brushes for a contemporary look.
Top 5 most popular In Obscuro brush sets
These brushes were downloaded 300 to 500 thousand times!
Number 1 most downloaded brush: Paper textures
Papers, paper textures, crumpled paper, creases, creased paper, paper edges, paper corners, grungy
Second most downloaded brush: Swirly ornaments
Swirls, ornaments, decorations, spirals, art nouveau
Third most downloaded brush: Swirly ornaments 2
Swirls, ornaments, decorations, leaves, spirals, art nouveau
Fourth most downloaded brush: Paint strokes
Paint, ink, drip, splatter, strokes, spill, drops, spatter
Fifth most downloaded brush: Lace
Lace, fishnet, flowers, roses, textures, borders, tiles, tiling
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Inspirational brush making
Where to find materials and how to use them best?
You must learn is to see the potential in images. Graphics that can be applied together with other graphics make good brushes.
There are many types of brushes: ornamental, textured, abstract... some of them are very subtle and are used to improve a graphic, but some may be used alone, similar to clipart.
Here are some possible ways of creating brushes:
Photography
If you own a digital camera, the world is full of details that may make good brushes. Look around you for natural or manufactured items. Take a lot of photos and examine them at home. Try desaturating them and see if you can still isolate the forms.Drawing and painting
You need a scanner or a digital camera for this.I draw and doodle a lot. Most of this will never show up in my gallery, but why not use it for brushes? If you're in the mood for creating, but aren't confident in drawing something complex, just doodle what comes to your mind, draw vines and foliage, funny faces, fancy letters, spill or spray paint to get random shapes... After scanning the drawings, you may edit them further and get effects you couldn't with traditional tools.
Digital drawing
We've seen the circular, triangular, rectangular and similar shapes, and they're boring. Go freehand! Use your mouse or tablet to draw either abstract or figurative shapes. If you can't control the mouse/tablet that well, use the Pen tool. Digital drawings will be more clean than the scanned ones.Combination
Try combining two or all three techniques mentioned above. You can use and reuse a single motive numerous times in many different ways and always get a unique result! Look at example images shown below to see what I mean.
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Tips on organizing brushes
If you downloaded many brush sets and saved all of them in the default brushes folder (probably C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop X.X\Presets\Brushes where X.X is the version number), you will likely suffer long Photoshop loading time. In order to avoid this, it would be better to create a new folder inside the default brushes folder, and save your brushes there.
It is also possible that you can't remember where you downloaded your brushes from (in order to give proper credit), and since some brush authors don't give descriptive names to their sets, you should take care of it.
Some suggestions:
- Inside your brushes folder create a new folder named website-name.com for every brush source. Save all the brush sets you downloaded there, renaming each with a menaningful name, for example vector-swirls.abr and similar.
- Create a new folder named downloaded brushes or similar. Open all brush sets you downloaded from a particular site and save them as a single brush set named website-name.com.abr for each site.
Whichever method you prefer, the result is a neater brush archive.
Enjoy!
Brushes examples
Some basic graphics made using brushes. It's so easy!
This graphic is made using my brushes "Frail Ivy", and "Clouds" which will be available for download soon.
This one is made using "Frail ivy" set, "Spider webs" and "Old papers".
The brushes used on this one are "Ink spill and splatter", "Paint strokes" and "Paper textures".
What version of Photoshop are you currently using?
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Polyvore brushes
You can use some of my brushes on Polyvore as well!
I created a Polyvore collection with a few of my brushes that you might find useful in your Polyvore collages, as many members already have. Enjoy! :)
If you want me to make something else available, let me know which one and I will try to add them when I have the time.
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