50 Free Photoshop Brush Sets for Modern Design Trends
Janet Jackson and Luther Vandross were right when they sang, “the best things in life are free”. There are many talented designers out there who choose to help the community by providing free and useful Photoshop brush sets that you can download and use on your artwork.
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.
Note: It’s important to read the fine-print - some designers require attribution or have special requirements for commercial use. Even if they don’t require any credit, it’s always highly-appreciated to give them some anyways.
Vintage and Retro
Darger-esque
Download (Volume 1) | Download (Volume 2)
Girls in Trouble & Rebel Teens
Transportation Part 1
Vintage Stamps
Old Photo Frame Brushes
Vienna Brushes
Alex Dukal Photoshop Stamp Brushes
Newspaper Ads From The 60’s
Rusty 80’s Arcades
Dot Splatter
36 Vector Brushes
240 Retro Dynamic Brushes
Grunge
Grunge Typo
Grunge Photoshop Brushes Set
Urban Decay Photoshop Brushes
QuadGrunged
Typographic Grunge Brushes
Grungy Texture
Download (CS 3) | Download (CS 1) | Download (PNG)
Grungy Watercolor
Download CS 3 | Download CS 1 | Download (PNG)
Grungy Wings
Download (CS3) | Download (CS1) | Download (PNG)
Grunge-Rust Brush
Hi-Res messy photoshop brushes
Sidewalk Series Vol. 1 Cracks
Sidewalk Series Vol. 2 Oil Stains
Sidewalk Series Vol. 3 Concrete Rust
Grunge Brushes 3
Water Color and Paint
Hi-Res Watercolor Photoshop Brushes
Download (Part 1 - CS 3) | Download (Part 1 - CS1) | Download (Part 2 - CS 3) | Download (Part 2 - CS 1) | Download Part 2 - PNG)
20 watercolor Brushes
WaterColor Reloaded
Messy Spraypaint
Download CS 3 | Download CS 1 | Download PNG
Go Media Spray Paint - Photoshop Brush Set
Hi-Res Splatter Photoshop Brushes
Download (CS 3) | Download (CS 1) | Download (PNG)
Splatter Brushes
Hand Drawn
Doodles
Download (Part 1) | Download (Part 2)
Pencil Traces (hand drawn)
stencil word brushes
Hand Drawn Floral Pattern Brushes
Graffiti Photoshop Brushes
Urban Scrawl
Swirls
Swirls Brushes
Download (Part 1) | Download (Part 2) | Download (Part 3)
Swirly Brushes
big swirl brushes
Wavy Lines
Fractal Brush Set
Watercolor Swirls
Floral, Nature, Plants
Floral
Download (CS 3) | Download (CS 1) | Download (PNG)
Wood Series Vol. 2 Tennessee Leaves
Floral Brushes
Leaves
Download (CS 3) | Download (CS 1) | Download (PNG)
Suddenly Spring
Missed your favorite?
There’s a ton of free Photoshop brushes out there. If your favorite brush set isn’t on here, why don’t you share it with us in the comments? If there’s enough suggestions - we may just write a follow-up to this one!
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84 Comments
insic
November 24th, 2008
Nice list! very useful brushes. thanks for sharing
Sawit
November 24th, 2008
Awesome list, lots of useful ones, thanks.
Jayson M
November 24th, 2008
Thanks Jacob for sharing these wonderful brushes…
Simon
November 24th, 2008
The cracks and retro ones loom awesome
the thing i love about design is the variety available in things such as brushes :)
Danh ba web 2.0
November 24th, 2008
Great brushes for me! Thanks you very much !
Rishi Luchun
November 24th, 2008
Great collection Thanks!
kiran
November 24th, 2008
Its a great collection Thank you…
care
November 24th, 2008
Thanks for sharing ideas to making pictures beautiful and attractive through these brushes.
Farid Hadi
November 24th, 2008
Some really nice brushes here.
Thanks for the list Jacob.
XIII
November 24th, 2008
Very nice roundup of brushes, thanks for sharing.
Travel chacha
November 24th, 2008
Thanks for the post it is quite useful
EJ
November 24th, 2008
Nice one!
Honour Chick
November 24th, 2008
great and useful brushes… thanks for the collection :)
Jade Cadelina
November 24th, 2008
Excellent collection of brushes. Very retro! :)
Scott Petrovic
November 24th, 2008
Nice post. I love watercolor brushes. It gives me some great ideas.
Timothy
November 24th, 2008
Really great list! I really liked the retro collection. Thanks!
Antonio Ciccarone
November 24th, 2008
Awesome little collection, thanks for the download links. I noticed about half-way through when I had about twenty tabs open ;)
Thanks.
Designer
November 24th, 2008
wow…..lovely
CC
November 24th, 2008
Great list, thanks. I just ran across these freebies as well, a holiday set and sample pack.
http://mediaslap.com/posts/7-25-free-holiday-photoshop-brushes
Rahul
November 24th, 2008
Hey thanks for the brushes… I liked the ones with curls, lines, swirls and stuff… really awesome.
Neon Maximillian
November 24th, 2008
wow!… this will be one of the coolest site i’ve ever been… thanks a lot!
Hexmedia Design
November 24th, 2008
A few great collections but many of them were too small to use effectively.
Maria
November 24th, 2008
Nice… Those designers really have good art sense.
Chris Elias
November 24th, 2008
Awesome list! Thanks
Navdeep
November 24th, 2008
Thanks for the collection
Bangbouh Stock
November 24th, 2008
Great Collection of Brushes. Thanks for the post!
Angie Bowen
November 24th, 2008
Great collection, thanks so much for putting it together. If you’re looking for brushes for a follow up article, we have quite a few free packs at the Arbenting Design Blog all of which are free for commercial use.
brauny
November 24th, 2008
Thank you. There are a lot of useful brushes.
Nikhil Singh
November 24th, 2008
Amazing collection! Thank you.
Winsalot
November 24th, 2008
Beast of a collection, thanks to Digg a great find!
Jarryd
November 24th, 2008
Some really nice brushes here, can’t wait to use em! :)
Lulu
November 24th, 2008
There are some very unusual brushes here. The retro and urban decay stuff is amazing.
weblizzer
November 25th, 2008
amazing collection, i have some of this brush set, but i love this one too..
Dan Lee
November 25th, 2008
These are great. No, seriously. You think I’m just saying that but I’m really not. These are great. Thanks a heap.
spaceface
November 25th, 2008
Thank you thank you thank you! A lot of these will come in good use sooner than later.
Arron Lock
November 26th, 2008
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I haven’t DL’d yet but I got it bookmarked for later. Thanks again.
FQ
December 1st, 2008
Awesome, thanks!
ksng
December 2nd, 2008
absolutely a great collection of beatiful brushes, thanks a lot! Great Work!
Patrick
December 3rd, 2008
Simply appreciate it…
Indra
December 12th, 2008
Great collection! One I did not see that I am looking for-torn edges? Anyone have a suggestion?
Thanks!
Mobius
December 13th, 2008
this is one detailed list of brushes! thank you!
mr. implicit
December 28th, 2008
thanks .. it all are amazing
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