Photoshop Free Brushes

Watercolor effects in web and print designs continue to dominate the world of design. Using the right watercolor textures or watercolor brushes can easily easily create depth and an artistic feel in your compositions. You can easily create backgrounds that look like they were made using paintbrushes. In case you are looking for quality watercolor brushes that you can use for free, you are very lucky because you landed in the right place. Below is a list of quality but free watercolor brushes composed of more than 500 brushes contained in 25 sets.

Fractal art brushes are great for adding abstract elements to your designs in Photoshop. Fractal art is created by calculating fractal objects and representing the calculation results as still images, animations, music, or other media. Digital graphic designers make use of fractal art in creating abstract and beautiful lighting effects such as those you see in website background or textures. In this post, we gathered together numerous high-quality Photoshop brushes featuring fractal designs that you can use for free in your noncommercial projects (well, most of them). To download the Photoshop brush set that you like, just click on the text link found below each image and it will take you to the original post where you can download the .abr or the zipped file. Have fun using these brushes!

Here is a set of high-resolution Photoshop brushes composed of 11 abstract background designs that you can use in your projects. Each brush has a resolution of 2500 pixels wide. Created in Adobe Photoshop CS3, these abstract background Photoshop brushes may be used in any CS version of Photoshop. To achieve best results try changing the blend modes, depending on what you want to achieve in the background that you are designing in Photoshop.

Here is a set of high-resolution Photoshop brushes featuring 17 sparkle lights pictures or what photographers call as “bokeh” lights that you can use for creating realistic sparks in your background designs. In photography, bokeh is the blur,or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or “the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light.” Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field.

Here is a set of high-resolution Photoshop brushes featuring 14 pictures of cracked walls that you can use for creating realistic cracks for your grungy and abstract background designs. This set of cracked wall Photoshop brushes may be used for both web and print design considering that the resolution of each brush is high enough and therefore suitable even for a 300-dpi layout. These cracked wall Photoshop brushes were created in Photoshop CS2 and therefore compatible to use with any CS version of Photoshop. The resolution of each Photoshop brush is around 250o pixels.

The fourth and the last set in our series of abstract art Photoshop brushes is composed of decorative floral shapes. These brushes are useful for creating backgrounds or to highlight other elements in your designs. This set of abstract art Photoshop brushes was created in Photoshop CS2. Thus, these should be compatible with any CS versions of Photoshop. The resolution of each Photoshop brush is around 200o pixels.

The third in our series of abstract art Photoshop brushes is composed of shapes that resemble sun bursts. These brushes are useful if you want to add something that resembles the sun in a different way such as in designing summer party postcards or invitation cards. This set of abstract art Photoshop brushes was created in Photoshop CS2. Thus, these should be compatible with any CS versions of Photoshop. The resolution of each Photoshop brush range from 200o pixels to 2500 pixels.

Here is the second in the series of abstract art Photoshop brushes that we are featuring in this blog for this week. Since abstract is very popular these days, we are hoping that you will find plenty of uses for these Photoshop brushes. This set is composed of curves mostly in half tones. Perfect for creating subtle background designs such as the one you see in the preview image below. Like the previous set , this pack was also created in Photoshop CS2. Thus, these should be compatible with any CS versions of Photoshop. The resolution of each Photoshop brush range from 200o pixels to 2500 pixels.