We’ve all heard it before…. “The best things in life are free”. For the most part, this old addage hardly rings true for any of us… as most people don’t give ANYTHING away for nothing! However, the world of graphic design appears to be a minor exception, as there are a surprising number of incredibly talented artists in the Photoshop Community who volunteer their blood, sweat, and tears (not to mention TIME) to provide the rest of the community with highly impressive, and highly useful Photoshop brushes absolutely free of charge! So while there may be no such thing as a free lunch… I’ll settle for some free Photoshop tools!
Of course, when you’re rummaging through the world of “free” anything, it can often be an annoying task to sift through all the crap in order to find the quality. There are alot of terrible brushes out there, as well as plenty of gorgeous ones, so it just comes down to taking the time to find the good ones. Here I have taken the time to do the research for you by going through thousands of brushes available on the internet to present to you only the best of the best.
I’ve compiled 50 free Photoshop brush sets featuring varied styles such as grunge, hand-drawn, swirls, vintage, and nature-inspired. This is by no means a complete list of the quality free brushes that exist, so I intend for this to be an introduction to a series of posts with the purpose of providing you with the most unique, beautiful, and above all else, FREE Photoshop brushes! Enjoy!
35 gruesome blood splatter brushes, created by the one-and-only smashmethod from deviantart!
80 Amazing Cracks & Cuts Brushes
Super high-res brushes created by the shoreways are perfect for all different types of projects.
The file contains 15 different brushes. You will find cracks, scratches and dirty brushes.
Amazing explosion brush with the average size brush of 2000 × 1500, which means it’s a high enough resolution for web OR print!
This pencil brush and sketch paper allows you to quickly and easily create natural-looking pencil sketches, without the pencil!
8 Classic-Style brushes to take you back to the Old West!
These splatter brushes are quite large (made to fit 300dpi a4 documents), so they’re great for print use. However, they can easily be resized for web use as well.
Now get the notebook-style scribble scrabble with these easy to use brushes.
8 Kickass brushes to rock out with!
Now you can create realistic smoke in your own works of art very easily using these premium brushes.
26 high resolution (2500px) water color brushes. Great for textures and might come in handy when designing posters.
13 impressive brushes to help you cover your urban scenes in graffiti!
Collection of 15 gorgeous spider webs to creep-out all your works of art…
A very interesting collection of fractal Photoshop brushes that work nicely when making medium to smaller sized work, from banners to avatars and personal cards.
Here is a happy little set of vector Photoshop brushes to add to your collection… a set of 20 little shapes, to give some fun to your designs.
Part two of the Fixedys Photoshop Vector set. A medium sized collection of 30 little fun looking vector shapes to add to your designs.
A beautiful Photoshop brushes collection that consists of paper brushes crumbled and torn in various shapes and sizes.
10 high resolution grungy concrete stains inspired by all the stains and spots on the sidewalk and in the street.
6 Excellent high resolution sidewalk cracks to give you a nice grungy texture.
Here’s a large collection of 61 grungy, dirty and decayed photoshop brushes.
Abduzeedo has a huge collection of PaulW’s brush set collection. Click on every picture to go to his download page.
Set includes 20 stencil word brushes, created in Photoshop version 7.0
Studioish presents Icon Brushes 1.0, packed with 18 icon brushes set at very high res sizes of approx 2300px each. Great for print, downsize for the web!
Set contains 66 brushes. Each shape has 3 presets. 1. plain shape, 2. scatter, 3. opacity shift scatter
7 cloud brushes in this set. An imagepack has been included.
This vector brush pack is loaded with 9 different high-quality objects.
9 high-quality abstract brushes designed to make your artwork pop!
A series of high definition circle brushes. Beautiful and round, just like circles should be.
28 photoshop vector style sunburst brushes with a high resolution of 1280×1024. This set is a must have for any web 2.0 designer.
8 incredible brushes that will make your masterpieces really shine!
100% original and REALLY BIG brushes (2500px) available in multiple formats. Perfect for print work, but for web stuff you might wanna size these down quite a bit.
These 3 floral brushes are inspired by the Art Nouveau’s flower style. These 4 sets of Fantasy Floral vectors were compiled in single ABR file. These floral or foliage vectors created using Illustrator.
This is a set of 8 high resolution Photoshop brushes of hand drawn floral designs that was made with a quill pen and india ink.
These 10 ginormous brushes are perfect for print (at 2500px) and can be sized down for web work…. and it was all made with a sketch pad, a can of spray paint, and a kitchen sponge!
Cracked brush set contains 19 grungy brushes compatible with PS 7 .
Deorative and artsy, these free brushes are a unique addition to any brush collection.
7 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes.
More amazing hair brushes for Photoshop.
9 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes.
240 beautifully retro brushes for you to use and abuse!
wow wall done its an amazing brushes collection .thtnk you too mach
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Nice Collection Bro………………..Thanxx For Sharing……….
A majority of those brushes are in my collection.
I would like to recommend also because i didn’t see him on the list, Monkwanderer. His brushes are simply amazing and there is a huge variety from dreamy to abstract to grunge
Love this post! Thanks for this. I’ll be sure to come back again. P.S: I’ve bookmark your site as well.
I hate looking for brushes! It always seems to take too long and like you said there alot of crap ones around BUT you’ve done an amazing job here, thanks. I hope it was’nt too much hard work..
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