I have compiled a list of free Photoshop brushes resources. The sites listed here all offer free Photoshop brushes, however it is wise to check the TOS of each site because some of them may not allow the use of the free brushes for commercial projects.
Just a couple of things first.
How to install Photoshop Brushes:
Most of the brushes at the sites listed below, are available for download compressed either as .zip or as .rar files. Extract the .abr files (photoshop brushes files) that are found inside the compressed archives at Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop X\Presets\Brushes. Replace X with your Photoshop version.
How to organize your Photoshop brushes:
Many people, including me, download hundreds of Photoshop brushes sets. Installing all those brushes makes it difficult to navigate through them and find the brush you are looking for. In order to avoid this, you should organize your brushes. The way I do it is: I keep the brushes I use often in the Brushes folder while for the brushes I don’t use that often I have created new categorized folders (grunge, retro, flowers etc). So when I want to use for example a retro brush I load the brush sets from the Retro folder. If you have found a better way to do it please share with the rest of us.
Here is the list (The list is going to be updated regularly, so if you know of more places that offer free Photoshop brushes or if you offer brushes at your site leave a comment and I will add those sites to this list)
hmmm.. I get alot of traffic on my site for my photoshop brushes that I made. Add mine to that list of yours. http://carldesigns.net
great list, i’ll try use some brushes on my design
Great resource, thanks a lot
Thanks…
AWESOME links. thanks so much for the links, dude.
As for helping preview (and thus manage) brushes, you might want to check out abrViewer:
http://abrviewer.sourceforge.net/
Very, very cool list!
Does anyone here know where I might be able to find nice skyline/cityscape brushes? I’d hate to spend the time looking through all of those EXCELLENT links if there’s a great place someone already knows of.
Please email me! – jvadnais@gmail.com
Hello,
I was hoping you could add my website to your list of Photoshop
resources. It is brushes.net.tc and it contains a [growing] list of
400 free Photoshop 7+ brushes. I offer a very wide variety and I have
them alphabetised as well. There is a tutorial section as well as a
place to request brushes. I would be very grateful if you would add
my website! I think it will be a very good tool for people as soon as
I get some visits! As of right now, none of my hard work has paid
off, so I would be very grateful. Thanks!
Davis Hermann
Great list. Thank you.
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