There are hundreds & thousands of Photoshop brushes available for free to download. Were do you start looking for them? How do you find that particular brush that you need to complete your latest design project? And most importantly, were are all the the high quality or even hi-res brushes? In this design resource round-up we have compiled a list of the best Photoshop directory resource sites and also compiled a list of the best Photoshop brush collections.
Brusheezy!
Brusheezy is not only the most popular Photoshop brush and pattern resource site, it is also the best. It is regularly updated with brush collections from the best in graphic design, it has an easy to navigate web site and with the resources neatly organised in sensible categories. This has to be your first stop if you are looking for fresh and high quality brushes, 7500 Facebook fans can’t be wrong!
Brush Directory
Photoshop Brush Collections Articles and Resources
1000+ Free High Resolution Photoshop Brush Sets
As with everything from Noupe, this collection of Photoshop brushes is hard to beat, with over 1000 brushes all neatly categorized for easier browsing.
The 50 Photoshop brush sets in this post from Smashing Magazine, are from the personal collection of Daved Brosche. This collection is the result of years’ worth of downloads, trials and experiments.
In this collection, you’ll find over 50 free Photoshop brush sets for current design trends and styles such as vintage, retro, grunge, hand-drawn, swirls, and nature-inspired.
In this post there are 50 free Photoshop brushes that are unique, different, and in many cases, down-right strange. In fact, these misfit brushes are united by only one thing: awesomeness.
Vintage design can make a user feel like they have been transported back in time. This particular style often uses design elements that look like they were found in the attic of an old house dating back to the 1920’s, 30’s, or 40’s. If you have a project coming up that requires this type of design, this post has a roundup of textures and brushes in vintage style.
This post is a showcase of some of the best sets of brushes available for creating textures, from Designm.ag.
Achieving an impressive watercolordesign would be much easier if you have the right brushes to create the effect. In this post you’ll find 500+ watercolor brushes .
Whether you are working on a nature-related artwork looking for floral and wood graphics, or merely adding some torn, burned and cracked effects to your artwork – there’s a free brush pack out there.
Photoshop brushes are an excellent resource for roughing up your designs for that distressed and weathered look, unfortunately many brush sets on the web are a little small in size, making them useless for large format designs. This collection of hand picked brushes feature various spraypaint, splatters, watercolour brushes and grungey textures all of which are of exceptionally high resolution, making them crucial additions to any designer’s toolbox.
If you have a project coming up that requires some type of lighting effect, you will definitely find these to be very useful.
In this post you will find 250 hi-res PS brushes of various style, splatter, spray, watercolor…
it can become quite a daunting task to find the perfect brushes for your design projects. In this article there are 75 insane high resolution Photoshop brushes that should be perfect for your next project.
In this round-up, you’ll find 20 vintage Photoshop brushes you can download for free. There are over 300 individual vintage brushes here, so you will have a broad choice of brushes to apply onto your designs.
In this post there are a number of brush sets for various elements found in nature, such as trees, mountains, clouds, and more.
PaulW is an awesome graphic designer from the UK who makes great abstract, grunge or vector brushes, and in this post from Abduzeedo, you will find his almost complete collection.
There are unlimited possibilities when working with lighting effects in Photoshop. A number of designers have created custom brushes especially for various sparkles, glows and glitter. In this post you’ll find links to over 200 free brushes that you can download to reduce the amount of time spent on your designs and to produce some excellent results.
In this amazing brush collection, there are over 4000 free high quality Adobe Photoshop brushes and resources that you can use for your next design project.
If you are looking to create some realistic metallic design, here’s a collection of Metallic Textures, Pattern, Brushes and Photoshop Tutorial that could come in handy.
#1 by tubeth2000 on October 25, 2009 - 10:16 AM
As a graphic designer, I really appreciate this post. It’s really useful post. thanks a lot.
#2 by pocket on October 25, 2009 - 2:59 PM
thank you for this! i will definitly be trying some of these soon! some of them look really good. well done for finding them all!
#3 by rosy885 on October 26, 2009 - 7:22 AM
Wow! Interesting piece of information. I will definately try out these.. Thanks for investing your effort and educating us.