The web is full of free Photoshop brushes, there are thousands of sites offering brushes just a click away, but this makes it incredibly difficult to find good quality free brushes. To save you time, we've rounded up here 30 of our favorite sets that every designer should have!
Brushes are a fantastic time saver as they allow you to quickly create rich work without having to create separate design elements. A huge selection of brushes will be available here, from leaves to grungy textures, from clouds to typography. Although Photoshop CS6 comes with a set of pre-installed brushes, these only feature surface scratches despite the brush engine, so grab the free brushes below and start adding some great designer embellishments to your work!
01. Brush set - Smoke
A large collection of Photoshop brushes - Smoke by Graham Jeffery contains 21 different brushes.
Restrictions: Non-commercial
02. Brush - Aged wood
This simple brush from Creative Nerds adds a wonderfully rich, flaky wood texture to your arsenal.
03. Brushes - Clouds in high resolution
This is a really useful set of 17 brushes, each with a different cloud design, that can be easily used to add edge to your images.
Restrictions: No
04. Halftones in 3D
Really nice set of halftones rendered in 3D with the potential to create interesting patterns that add depth to the design
Restrictions: Non-commercial
05. Bokeh brushes with dust particles
A really useful set of Photoshop bokeh brushes with dust particles from WeGraphics that instantly add litter and saturation.
Restrictions: Cannot be distributed through other sources
06. Brushes - Blood, dried splatter
A total of 117 Photoshop brushes, each containing a different dried blood splatter. Great for creating blood effects, but also useful for simulating paint.
Restrictions: No
07. Burns and burns
Another great set of brushes from WeGraphics that depict realistic scorch and burn effects in 10 different designs.
Restrictions: Cannot be distributed through other sources
08. Trendy paisley pattern brushes
A rich set for Photoshop, each containing an element of the paisley pattern. Also includes the original PNG files that the designer used to create the brushes.
Restrictions: Non-commercial use
09. Brushes - grass and plants
10 different Photoshop brushes, each including a different herb and plant design with sizes ranging from 500px to 2500px.
Limitations: In some cases, attribution
10. Decorative butterflies 2
Lots of pretty butterflies and plant-based ornaments that can add a touch of sophistication to corners and edges.
Restrictions: No
11. Antique postcards
This wonderful set of 6 antique postcard designs provides the perfect backdrop for your project. Each postcard has text and a delightful patina.
Restrictions: No
12. Lunar brushes
This great set provides 10 different moon phases in a brush format!
Restrictions: No
13. Brushes - Leaves in high resolution
Great for creating organically textured backgrounds, this set includes 7 individual leaf images with intricate detail and texture.
Restrictions: No
14. Fractal brushes
A great selection of fractal-based Photoshop brushes that look futuristic. Great solution for web design.
Restrictions: No
15. V-Fractal Brushes
This pack of 6 brushes contains some lovely organic shapes.
Restrictions: Infrequent use / limited distribution
16. Brushes - Hairstyles in high resolution
An excellent set of brushes consisting of individual hairstyles rendered as silhouettes.
Restrictions: No
17. Brushes - Light with dynamic special effects
Create special lighting effects with these brushes combined with layer blend modes such as screen or vivid light.
Restrictions: No
18. Brushes - Night sky and stars
This brush set contains 13 different night sky elements, including space dust brushes, star brushes and the moon.
Restrictions: No
19. AP brushes: Scarface
Ideal if you want to add some scarring to portraits or simply create beautifully textured background elements.
Restrictions: No
20. Brushes - Circles VectorPack
Good selection of circular brushes that are clean and modern.
Restrictions: No
21. Brushes - Hair Set 1
A great set of Photoshop brushes for retouching model photos, this set includes detailed textured hair in a variety of styling styles.
Restrictions: Attribution required in some cases
22. Brush with sparks
A nice and simple brush that adds a scattering of scattered light balls to bring magical Disney sparks to your work.
Restrictions: No
23. Brushes - Trees on the edges
A good set of brushes for Photoshop that allow you to add silhouettes of trees and shrubs around the edges of your composition.
24. GreenPack brushes by Random Brushes
The 4 green themed brushes are worth downloading mainly because of the beautiful tree illustration included here!
Restrictions: No
25. Brushes - Water Vol. 2
12 large brushes that include splashes, ripples and water drops. Great set for backgrounds as well as foreground design elements.
Restrictions: No
26. Grunge and flowing color brushes
A large set of brushes for Photoshop from mixed media in grunge and floral themes.
Restrictions: Non-commercial use only
27. Five Simple Fabric Brushes
A simple fabric texture, great for backgrounds in print and web design as the brushes are in high resolution.
Restrictions: No
28. Grunge brushes2012
A large set of 25 grunge brushes with some outstanding textures to add detail to your work.
Restrictions: Non-commercial use only
29. Floral swirls
A useful set of floral swirl brushes perfect for creating rich edges and textures in print and web design.
Restrictions: No
30. Brushes - Maps of the world
A beautiful map in twelve brushes that contain the work of the 16th century cartographer Marin Waldemüller.
Restrictions: No
That's all! Did you see some useful Photoshop brushes here? Tell us in the comments below!
Who wouldn't want to be a top notch designer? Perhaps, many would agree to visit such a role. But is everything as simple as it seems at first glance? Is it really enough to get photoshop lessons, master them, and become a professional? No. Everything is much more complicated. Like any other profession, the role of a designer requires experience, perseverance, talent and hard work. And some free photoshop lessons will not save the situation much. In this case, a more systematic approach is needed. So, for example, few people know about the differences between certain versions of Photoshop. So, for example, the photoshop cs3 lessons differ from the material prepared for later versions of the software. It is worth highlighting the photoshop video tutorials, which are still much more informative than the text versions. Perhaps a fairly understandable situation develops if we start talking about 3d video lessons. On the one hand, it is quite difficult to imagine a text course in such complex three-dimensional graphics. On the other hand, 3d lessons are very diverse, including text variations. Here you can also cite as an example photoshop lessons in Russian, which are available in abundance. Well, the last aspect is corel lessons.
Considering the lessons of photoshop, quite interesting proposals fall into the hands. So, for example, while surfing the Internet, you often come across offers of paid courses in one place or another. Is it worth buying this? Our answer is no. For a beginner, it will be enough to pick up free photoshop lessons, having mastered which you can think about something more serious. It is worth noting the photoshop cs4 lessons that have become the most popular in a short period of time. And it is the video tutorials of photoshop, thanks to which a number of points and subtleties become immediately clear. Although this statement does not always work, since not all video lessons are actually good. Especially if we are talking about photoshop lessons in Russian, which in any case are less on the network than in English. As for the graphics, then 3d lessons come to the rescue. Another important aspect in the study of these very lessons is the format. After all, it is 3d video lessons that allow you to better understand this or that material. Let's not forget the corel lessons, which are becoming more accessible every day. Thus, the teaching materials that have become common, called lessons, are gaining popularity.
Summing up, it is worth noting once again the educational materials that are gaining their popularity. These are called lessons. So, for example, at the moment, just a cloud of various materials is available on the network, including photoshop lessons. In person, these are either translated from English or Russian editions. So, for example, you can get photoshop cs5 tutorials literally on any web site dedicated to design in one way or another. As a rule, photoshop video tutorials are exemplary. It is worth noting that not all photoshop lessons in Russian are actually a reference product. This is due to the huge amount of material available. In principle, this includes free photoshop lessons. As for the graphics, here you can find a lot of interesting things. So, for example, 3d lessons, although they do not have the same popularity as photoshop lessons, they also have a good distribution. Namely, 3d video tutorials in this area are of the highest quality. Do not forget also about the educational material called corel lessons. And even in this area you will find a lot of interesting things.
In this Photoshop tutorial you will learn how to draw crazy fire lines in 10 easy steps. Such a crazy effect will give your photo more expression and dynamics.
1 step
For this lesson, you should choose the most spectacular photo that you have in your archive. If this doesn't work, take your camera and create your own image!
Open the photo in Photoshop and turn it into black and white.
If you do not know how to do this, then see this tutorial.
2 step
After the photo is ready, turn on the panel contours(paths) and click on the button Create a new path(create new path) in the figure is marked with the letter (A) .
Press the English letter "P" on your keyboard to select the Pen Tool.
Now stop and think about how best to place the fire lines. Come up with? Then go ahead! Keep the direction in mind for now.
3 step
A. Click on the document to place the first point of the path.
B. Add a second point, give the outline a smooth curve.
C. Keep working on your brilliant idea.
Remember that at any time you can change the shape of the outline.
You can hold Ctrl and switch to the tool white arrow(direct selection tool) to quickly correct the outline.
If the Pen tool is still incomprehensible to you, then I advise you to watch this lesson.
4 step
Finally, the contour is ready! By the way, in those areas that will later hide behind the arms and legs, do not stop for a long time, because they will not be visible anyway.
5 step
A. Now take a soft round tool Brush, the size is up to you (brush = 5 px was used in the tutorial) orange.
B. Create a new layer and name it "Fire"!
B. Go back to the Palette Palette and select the button at the bottom which is called Stroke(stroke path, marked with the letter C).
6 step
A red line will instantly appear along the contour! To keep the outline out of the way, press Ctrl + H to hide it.
In the picture, you must have noticed that there are additional orange colored lines. This effect gives the illusion of movement of fire, really! But we did not create contours for them!
How to do this? It's very simple - take a stamp, select a spatter brush, clone a section of the line and place it next to it.
7 step
With the help of an eraser, we will erase the extra sections of the line, which should not be visible behind the legs and arms.
8 step
Right-click on the layer with Fire, select Overlay options (blending options), where you can add different layer styles.
Try to apply the same styles and settings that you see below, but be aware that the settings can be adjusted to your taste and color.
So let's add:
Inner Shadow, Outer Glow and Inner Glow
step 9
Duplicate the "Fire" layer and change the blending mode of the layer to overlap(Overlay)
On the duplicate layer, turn off the eyes of the styles Inner shadow (inner shadow) and Inner glow (inner glow) to deactivate them.
10 step
Now double click on the remaining Outer Glow style to change its settings.
A little more, and maybe a lot, of time you need to spend on your work in order to get something like this ...
Another little note... duplicate the Fire layer again and apply to it filter - distortion - wave(filter>distort>wave)... Play around with the opacity and blend modes, especially the Overlay.
