20 Beautiful Vintage Photoshop Brush Sets

Mar 4 2009 by Mirko Humbert | 38 Comments

Vintage designs has gotten very popular over the past years, and it seems the trend keeps on going.

In this round-up, you’ll find 20 vintage Photoshop brushes you can download for free. There are over 300 individual vintage brushes here, so you will have a broad choice of brushes to apply onto your designs.

Each brush set was first tested, and the images you see below are previews of what to expect from each brush pack.

1. Darger-esque (23 brushes)

2. 1920s ladies by 500ml brushes (7 brushes)

3. Vintage Hands (15 brushes)

4. Vintage Models (11 brushes)

5. Retr0 Brushes (30 brushes)

6. Old Maps (11 brushes)

7. Newspaper ads from the 60s (12 brushes)

8. 1940 Cosmopolitan brushes (48 brushes)

9. Vintage Movie Posters (16 brushes)

10. Vintage brushes (12 brushes)

11. Vintage Birds (20 brushes)

12. Vintage polaroid brushes (14 brushes)

13. Vintage grunge brushes (17 brushes)

14. Alice in Wonderland brushes (20 brushes)

15. Old Newspaper (16 brushes)

16. Old Paper Brushes (7 brushes)

17. Vintage Lady (6 brushes)

18. Film and old projectors (5 brushes)

19. Vintage pics (8 brushes)

20. Birdcages (16 brushes)

About the Author

Mirko Humbert is a freelance designer from Switzerland. He shares his thoughts about his passion on his graphic design blog, Designer Daily, and also runs a CSS gallery called CSS Orgy. To connect with Mirko, you can follow him on Twitter.

38 Comments

Matt

March 4th, 2009

I kind of love how photoshop brushes have become the new icons. I have a client who loves Victorian themed things, some of these brushes might actually catch her attention.

Sankar Datti

March 5th, 2009

Nice collection.

I love vintage sets. Thanks Mirko

WebUnicorn

March 5th, 2009

thank you for this collection

Laurel LaFlamme

March 5th, 2009

What a fantastic collection of work! Hugely cool pics and you can download for free – awesome! Thank you very much.

craf

March 5th, 2009

cool brush! thank you :-)

Timothy

March 5th, 2009

The Alice in Wonderland set is crazy. Crazy awesome.

Mark Aplet

March 5th, 2009

Those are awesome! Really liked the lady’s and film projector set! Great collection!

For any that might be interested, I have a set of vintage postal stamp brushes that I created that are also free to download. Hope people can find them useful. http://www.visual28.com/articles/free-photoshop-brushes

HeriNXI

March 5th, 2009

they are great brushes, but maybe i don’t need them right now :)

Brandon Oelling

March 5th, 2009

I LOVE … LOVE … LOVE these!

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Sudheer

March 5th, 2009

Cool n nice brushes…Vintage collection’s are always good

ProjectCenter

March 5th, 2009

Excellent for any retro-type projects that come up.

Hyeran

March 5th, 2009

very nice brushes!
Thank you:)

Kathi

March 6th, 2009

Thanks! (:

Kayla

March 6th, 2009

Very nice, can’t wait to download on my own computer!

Belljar

March 7th, 2009

nice brushes!
Thanks.

Oliver

March 7th, 2009

Nice Collection! Thanks for putting all these together.

Alex Trup

March 11th, 2009

Beautiful brushes, I wonder though, does anyone know what kind of copyright (if any) applies to these brushes? Are the images used no longer copyrighted? Can you use them in your own designs without fear of repercussions?

Thanks,

Alex

Ryan

March 11th, 2009

This is the best collection of vintage anything I’ve ever seen. Thanks.

Jen N

March 17th, 2009

These are amazing!

Michelle

March 18th, 2009

I am wondering the same thing as Alex. Are these brushes copyrighted?
-Michelle

Michelle

March 18th, 2009

Spoke too soon. I see that after selecting some of the brushes that each individual has copyright information. Just needed to dig a little deeper.
-Michelle