Photoshop has a great brush library with a vast variety including calligraphic, natural media, special effects brushes and many other useful sets.
Despite of its brush library being so huge, artists feel need to create brushes with the shape and size of their choice. Thanks to the developers of Photoshop that we can create our own set of brushes pretty easily.
There are lots of artists on the design communities who create and share their brushes for free, and adding them to our personal brush library is not a bad idea.
I have compiled a list of 100 useful brush sets for Photoshop that you would love to use in your projects. If you download and use any of the given brush sets then consider giving credits to the creator of that brush set.
If you are planning to use any of these sets in your commercial projects, make it sure to read the terms of use and license information. Enjoy!
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Speckle Brushes
10 cool brushes for creating speckles and noisy backgrounds. A perfect set to add some texture to your artwork.
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Foliage Brushes
Really awesome brush set to create the trees, bushes and other foliage stuff. If you have difficult time creating trees and plants then try these awesome brushes to make the design process lot more easier.
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Swirly Winter Banners and Snowflakes Brushes
A set of 10 awesome swirly banners with snowflakes suitable for designs with winter theme. JPEG and PNG files are also included within this pack.
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Fur Brushes
Fur is one of those things that most of the people find really hard to paint. Now, you can create some realistic furry stuff with this set of 7 handy brushes easily.
These brushes are really easy to use and you don’t have to work much on how fur looks as these brushes will do most of the work for you.
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Dust Particles Brushes
Create some cool looking dusty effects with the help of these 15 dust particles brushes. PSD, PNG and JPG files are also included within this set.
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Cosmic Lights Brushes
This set contains 10 beautiful brushes for creating cosmic lights. You can use these brushes for creating abstract backgrounds and lighting effects.
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Art Brushes
This set contains 8 high quality artistic brushes that are best for digital paintings and illustrations.
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Noise and Distress Brush Set
A set of 10 great noise brushes ideal for creating scratched metal surfaces, concrete and similar stuff.
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Bamboo Splatters Brushes
A very creative brush set with 10 bamboo splatters brushes that are made by the blending of water splatters and bamboo leaves creating a very nice effect.
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Falling Sparks Brushes
10 awesome brushes to add some cool sparks effects to your designs.
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Garbage stains Brush set
Wonderful set of 10 cool looking brushes to create grungy and textured garbage stains within few minutes. If you love to draw with textures then this set is for you.
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Ornate Snowflakes Brushes
Let it snow with this set offers 9 cool looking snowflake brushes. Each brush in this pack is completely different from the other.
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Cracks Texture Brushes
Another wonderful set with 10 great brushes that can be used to add different types of crackings to your designs. You can use them freely for you non-commercial purposes.
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Smoke Brush Pack
Grab this set of 6 awesome high quality smoke brushes that can save a lot of time during painting/designing process.
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Coffee Stains Brushes
This set contains 9 cool brushes to create realistic coffee stains. You can also create blood and color stains through these brushes.
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Grunge Brushes Pack
A cool set of textured grunge brushes ideal for creating random scratches, old and noisy surface This set contains 70 great brushes within.
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Pencil Brush set
Awesome brush pack for illustrators with 5 wonderful pencil brushes. A nice grainy effect always looks good with line arts and illustrations.
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Trees Photoshop Brush Pack
An amazing pack that contains over 40 different types of trees including winter pear, bamboo, palm and coconut, cherry, maple, papyrus and some dead trees. A must have set for those who love to draw natural environments.
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Metal Scratches Brush Set
Having trouble in creating scratched metal surfaces? Try this set of 12 unique brushes and create realistic looking metal surfaces with in few minutes. PSD file is also included in this set.
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Strokes & Splatters Brush Set
One great pack of 95 wonderful color strokes and splatters brushes. These brushes are high in quality (2500 pixels) and can be used in digital paintings and other designing stuff.
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snow brushes
This set contains 7 brushes that can be used to add realistic snowfall to your images.
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Grass Brush pack
72 awesome grass brushes that you can use to create different types of grass. A must have for those who love to draw environments and nature elements.
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Grunge Rusty Brushes
13 brushes to achieve a cool rusty effect pretty easily. You can achieve effects like old rusty metal, mossy rocks and old walls quickly with the help of these great brushes.
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Feathers Brushes
A set with 10 different types of high quality feather brushes.
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Concrete Texture Brushes
This set comes with 10 cool looking concrete brushes with awesome textures and cracks. You can use these brushes in 3d texturing and other painting tasks.
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Easter brushes
This set comes with 10 awesomly designed easter egg brushes and PNG files. These brushes are absolutely free for personal and commercial use.
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Grunge Brushes
This set contains 5 high res brushes ideal for creating messy and textured backgrounds. These brushes can also be used in digital paintings to get nice textured brush strokes.
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Fingerprints Brush Set
Check out this awesome pack of finger print brushes with 25 cool looking brushes. You are free to use these brushes for you personal use but do read the license of this brush pack at designers website before using them in your commercial projects.
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Tire Brushes
This set has 14 amazing tire brushes that can be used to create different types of tire impressions easily.
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Tea stains Brush Set
Another set that offers 10 cool brushes for creating tea/coffee stains.
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Natural Media Texture Brushes
Another great set that contains 10 nice texture brushes that can come in handy during digital painting and texturing.
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Health and beauty brushes
This set offers 67 health and beauty brushes with some misc elements like floral patterns, borders , plants etc.
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Water Color Splodges & Drops Brush Pack
This set contains 4 water brushes to add believable water effects, splodges and water trails.
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Cotton Brushes
Awesome pack with 19 high resolution cotton brushes within. You can easily notice the details on these brushes. You could use them for creating clouds and similar stuff.
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Floral Snowflakes Brushes
This set contains 6 high resolution snowflakes that are made up of leaves and flowers. If you don’t want to use regular snowflake shapes in your designs then you can give try these brushes.
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Fern Brush pack
A set with 29 different types of ferns as Photoshop brushes. Kindly read term of use before using these brushes in your commercial projects.
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Tiled Brushes
This set offers 32 tiled brushes that can be used to add grids and tiles to the design.
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Cup stains Brush Set
This set contains over 100 cool looking cup marks and stains brushes. Handy brush set for creating tea-coffee cup stains.
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Crack Brushes
This set has 16 crack brushes including PDF help files. You can use these awesome brushes to create cracking walls and surfaces.
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Tire Tracks Brushes
Try this set of 3 tire brushes to create realistic tire impressions easily.
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Texture Brushes
This set is a must have for digital painters and illustrators. It contains 23 professional looking texture brushes that you can use in your personal and commercial projects.
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Digital Waves Patterns Brushes
A pack of 15 awesome digital waves brushes. Each brush in the set has a unique wave pattern and can be used to create fancy and abstract backgrounds.
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Metal Scratches Brush Pack
A set with 3 cool looking metal scratches brushes. Vector file (.EPS) is also included within this set.
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IES Spot Lights Brushes
A set with 28 IES spotlight brushes that you can use to add lights to the buildings. You can easily conform these lights to the walls of the building with the help of Photoshop handy transform tools.
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Sponge Brushes
Love to play with textures? Try this amazing pack of brushes that offers 10 cool sponge brushes. Digital painters can make use of these brushes to add some texture to their paintings.
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Splatters Brush Pack
This set comes with 32 awesome looking splatter brushes with three high quality textures. These brushes are ideal for creating Ink, watercolor and blood splatters.
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Grungy Watercolor Brushes
A wonderful set of 10 high quality grungy water color brushes. The archive also contains PNGs of the brushes so that people that don’t use Photoshop can use them in the software of their choice.
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Shattered Glass Brush Pack
A wonderful set of 20 cool looking shatter glass brushes including brush file, 20 transparent PNG files of 5000×5000 pixels dimensions, 300dpi and a PDF file showing how to install brushes in Photoshop.
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Grungy Marine Brushes
A set of 5 nice and simple marine brushes. These brushes are suitable for simple and flat designs.
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Shabby Brush Set
Another great set of 11 brushes to create awesome looking textures surfaces. A good one for digital painting and texturing purposes.
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Optical Flare Brush Set
This set contains some cool looking optical flare brushes that can add some more realism to your paintings. 35 PNG files with a PDF tutorial guide is also included within the archive.
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Concrete Texture brushes
A set with 15 hard concrete brushes that can be used to texture walls, buildings, floor etc.
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Lighting Bolts Brush Pack
A set of 26 wonderful brushes to create believable lightning bolts in no time. You can use these brushes for adding a stormy or horror feel to your concept.
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Frozen Snowflakes Brushes
A set of 6 frozen snowflakes brushes that you can use in your personal as well as commercial projects.
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Decorative Frames brush set
Download these awesome looking decorative brushes and add detailed swirly frames and borders to your images just in few seconds.
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Toon Flowers Brushes
One beautiful set with 4 nice and simple brushes inside. You can use these brushes in your simple designs as decorations or borders.
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Watercolor Brushes
A wonderful set of 20 realistic watercolor brushes. These brushes are high quality with 2000 x 2000 pixels dimensions.
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Polder skies Brush set
A set of 5 awesome texture rich polder skies brushes that are free for personal and commercial use.
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Fireworks Brushes
This set has 12 great fireworks brushes that can be serve better for some special events and festiv designs. These brushes are absolutely free for personal and commercial use.
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Torn Paper Edges Brushes
An awesome set with 38 amazing brushes to create torn paper edges very quickly. All brushes in this set are of high quality.
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Antlers & Horns Brush set
A set of 5 brushes to create different types of antler and horns. You can use them in your Christmas greeting cards and designs.
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Drip Brushes
This set offers 20 great brushes and vectors that can be used to create awesome dripping effects easily and quickly.
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Scratches Brush Set
Add some roughness to your designs with this awesome pack of scratches brushes. It contains 50 high resolution brushes including JPG file of each brush and PSD file of sample images.
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Blob Brushes
A set of 12 different types of blob brushes for digital painting purpose.
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Bling Effects Brush Pack
A set with 18 cool bling brushes that you can use to add bling effects to your images, artworks and text effects.
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Rain Brushes
Set of 12 cool looking awesome brushes that allow you to add rain in your paintings and concepts in no time.
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Floral Swirls brush pack
This cool set comes with 2 professional looking floral brushes that you would love to use in your designs.
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Dirty Spray Grunge Brushes
Add some dirty and textured feel to your designs with the help of this awesome set of 25 awesome brushes.
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Flames Brushes
A set of 10 amazing flame brushes to add some firey elements to your concepts and designs.
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Watercolor Feathers Brush Set
This set comes with 5 feather brushes with 20 different types of feathers.
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Solace Brushes
A set of 4 solace brushes that can be used to create awesome backgrounds and abstract art.
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Strings & Bubbles Brushes
A set of stings and bubbles brushes that are ideal for creating decorative borders and frames.
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Watercolor splatters Brush Set
This is an awesome pack with 26 professional looking splatter brushes that can be used to create different types of water color splatter effects. It contains round, globs, directional, fine mist and dots splatter brushes including transparent PNG files.
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Urban Grunge Brushes
A great set of 10 high quality brushes with miscellaneous urban elements.
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Snowflakes Brushes
Add a nice snowfall to your design with this set of 20 unique and high quality snowflakes brushes.
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Light Rays Brush Set
This set contains 20 light rays brushes that you can use to add light rays and flares to your paintings.
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Cracked Grunge Brushes
This set has 3 very cool texture brushes suitable for adding textures and providing a grungy feel and to your artworks.
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Bokeh Brushes
A set of 15 awesome brushes to achieve dusty bokeh effect in very less time.
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Leafy Frames and Ornament Brushes
This set offers 3 very detailed leafy frames brushes. You can make use of these brushes in your greeting card designs to decorate their corners.
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Grungy Halftone Brushes
A set of 9 awesome brushes that can be used to add some random grunge to the design.
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Color Strokes & Splatters
A set of 35 awesome brushes that can be used for creating spatters and paint strokes.
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Metal Sparks Brushes
A pack of 20 spark brushes that have been created from the photographs of the grinding metals. You can use these brushes to add lighting effects and metal sparks to your designs.
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Doodle Brushes
A set with 20 cool doodle brushes of miscellaneous elements to add some sketchy, hand drawn effect to your designs.
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Tribal Hunting Brush Set
This brush set contains 12 brushes of Tribal people hunting animals, resemble the cave paintings of the ancient people and tribes. These brushes are good for adding ancient theme to your designs.
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Grunge texture Brushes
15 outstanding grunge brushes to add nice and crisp textures to your designs and artworks. Each brush in the set is high in quality (1800px – 2500px)
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Halftone Patterns Brushes
A set of 4 high res half tone pattern brushes. These brushes are ideal for creating fancy backgrounds.
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Leaves Brushes
This set has 15 leaves brushes that might come handy while painting stuff like plants, trees and other foliage.
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Grungy Frames Brushes
Add some interesting effect to your images with the help of these 2 awesome grunge frame brushes.
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Clouds Brushes
Try this pack of 8 awesome looking clouds brushes. You can add realistic clouds easily and quickly with the help of these brushes. Must have for those who love to draw environments.
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Eyelashes Brushes
A set with 16 high res eye lashes brushes. People who deal with portraits can make a better use of these brushes.
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Abstract Grunge Brush Pack
This set comes with 18 great abstract grunge brushes. You can use these unique brushes to add some great textured details to your paintings and concept arts.
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Grungy Skull Splatters Brushes
This set offers 41 great skull brushes with splatter effect, available in both vector and raster versions. You can use them to add some spookiness to your designs.
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Doodle Brushes
A set with 20 cool doodle brushes of miscellaneous elements to add some sketchy, hand drawn effect to your designs.
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Glittering Stars Brush Set
4 cool brushes that can be used to add shine to the designs. You can easily create shining metals and other things with glitters.
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Watercolor Strokes
Add some nice water color strokes to your designs with these 14 awesome high res brushes.
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Symbols Brushes
This set offers 26 unique traditional symbols brushes contains symbols from Ghana, West Africa.
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Flowers Brushes
A set of 9 unique brushes that can be used to paint plants with flowers.
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Pigeon Brushes
A set with 10 high quality pigeon silhouette brushes.
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Vintage Butterflies Brushes
A set of 20 vintage butterfly brushes and each brush has a unique butterfly image.
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3D Elements Brush Pack
A set with 20 brushes with different types of 3d elements such as cylinder, torus, tube etc. These brushes are made with the help of 3d rendered objects using Cinema4d.
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Ribbon Brushes
A set of 24 ribbon badges brushes that can be used for personal as well as commercial projects.
I hope you enjoyed this collection. If you have any brushes that you would like to see in the above list please let me know. Thanks!
