Noupe Editorial Team October 15th, 2008

1000+ Free High Resolution Photoshop Brush Sets

best photoshop brush sets
Hundreds of thousands of incredible Adobe Photoshop brush sets are all over the web. Due to this phenomenally vast amount of Photoshop brushes available, you can now add patches of dirt, rust, floral effect, swirls, mold, oil stains in your artworks and photos to give them an aged, damaged, dreamy or any look you want. Without further ado, we present 1000+ high-Resolution Adobe Photoshop brush sets that will be perfect for any project you may happen to be working on. Important: Licenses of every brush set varies, so be sure to check that information before using them.

1. Grunge Photoshop Brushes

1.1 Sidewalk Series Vol. 2 Oil Stains

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10 high resolution grungy concrete stains inspired by all the cracks, stains, and spots on the sidewalk and in the street.
Download Brush Set here

1.2 Sidewalk Series Vol. 1 Cracks

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6 Excellent high resolution sidewalk cracks to give you a nice grungy texture.
Download Brush Set here

1.3 Cracks Part III

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15 brushes made with Photoshop 7.0. Those cracks look like soil cracks, but it’s just the paint on the door
Download Brush Set here

1.4 Urban Decay Photoshop Brushes

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Here's a large collection of 61 grungy, dirty and decayed photoshop brushes.
Download Brush Set here

1.5 QuadGrunged

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QuadGrunged pack contains 10 grungy abstract brushes compatible with PS 7 and up.
Download Brush Set here

1.6 Cracked Brush Set

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Cracked brush set contains 19 grungy brushes compatible with PS 7 .
Download Brush Set here

1.7 Typographic Grunge Brushes

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Typographic Grunge Brushes set contains 25 brushes made from stock photos. Compatible with Photoshop 7 and up.
Download Brush Set here

1.8 Free Grungy Wings

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10 Photoshop brushes that are ginormous (2500px).
Download Brush Set here

2. Floral Photoshop Brushes

2.1 Hand Drawn Floral Pattern Brushes

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This is a set of 8 high resolution Photoshop brushes of hand drawn floral designs that was made with a quill pen and india ink.
Download Brush Set here

2.2 Fantasy Floral Photoshop Brushes

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These 4 sets of Fantasy Floral vectors were compiled in single ABR file. These floral or foliage vectors created using Illustrator.
Download Brush Set here

2.3 Flowers Part I

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There are 28 flowers in this set so you can call it half-mega-pack. They were made with Photoshop 7.0 and they’ve got some reasonable resolutions.
Download Brush Set here

2.4 Autumn Glory

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An automn brush set inspired by an autumn walk through mountains of brown, red and yellow fallen leaves. Made in Photoshop 7.0
Download Brush Set here

2.5 Free Hi-Res Photoshop Brushes - Floral

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These are 100% original and REALLY BIG brushes, available in CS1 and CS3 formats, as well as a full set of PNG’s.

3. Glow Photoshop Brushes

3.2 Attack Brushes

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8 brushes in this pack.
Download Brush Set here

3.3 Unreal Brushes

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Unreal Brushes v.3 9 in High Quality.
Download Brush Set here

4. Miscilnea Photoshop Brushes

4.1 Akatsuki Cloud Burshes

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7 cloud brushes in this set. An imagepack has been included.
Download Brush Set here

4.2 Frost Brush Set

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Set contains 8 brushes, made in Photoshop CS3.
Download Brush Set here

4.3 School Dayz Sketches Brushes

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A set of 27 Photoshop brushes made up of sketches of school themed items. These were all drawn by hand! They are high resolution, with the average size being about 1800 pixels.
Download Brush Set here

4.4 Stencil Word brushes

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Set includes 20 stencil word brushes, created in Photoshop version 7.0
Download Brush Set here

4.5 Fingerprint brushes

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Set includes 10 stencil word brushes, created in Photoshop version 7.0
Download Brush Set here

4.6 Dirigibles

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12 bruses - made in PSCS2, size 450 - 1144 px
Download Brush Set here

4.7 Health And Beauty

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A free set of 67 Photoshop brushes ranging in resolution from 69 to 2463 pixels. The set is compatible with Adobe Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2 and CS3
Download Brush Set here

4.8 1000 great PS free brushes

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Abduzeedo has a huge collection of PaulW's brush set collection. Click on every picture to go to his download page. You can watch the same collection on his journal when you click here
Download Brush Set here

5. Hair Photoshop Brushes

5.1 Hair brushes

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Hair brush set made in Photoshop CS2.
Download Brush Set here

5.2 Hair Brushes III

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5 Hair brush set thats looks amazing.
Download Brush Set here

6. Watercolor Photoshop Brushes

6.1 WaterColor Reloaded

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This HUGE pack contains 83 (resolution about 700 - 1200px) brushes compatible with PS 7 and up!
Download Brush Set here

6.2 Free Hi-Res Watercolor

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Amazing brushes that were originally painted on a high quality paper to give us this high-res watercolor brush set.

7. Swirl and Curvy Photoshop Brushes

7.1 More Swirls Brushes

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Swirls Brushes for Photoshop
Download Brush Set here

7.2 Swirls II Brushes PS

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Swirls Brushes for Photoshop
Download Brush Set here

7.3 Swirls III Brushes

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Swirls Brushes for Photoshop
Download Brush Set here

7.4 Curly Brushes + Img

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A set of 5 Photoshop brushes, handmade in Adobe Illustrator.
Download Brush Set here

8. Wood Photoshop Brushes

8.1 xbgrunge 03

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A small collection of 9 Photoshop brushes. Can be used to add texture of dirtand rust.
Download Brush Set here

9. Fractal Photoshop Brushes

9.1 Fractal Brushes Pack 2

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A small collection of 8 Fractal Photoshop brushes.
Download Brush Set here

9.2 Fractal Lite

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A big collection of 40 Fractal Photoshop brushes that work nicely when making medium to smaller sized work, from banners to avatars and personal cards.
Download Brush Set here

10. Splatter Photoshop Brushes

10.1 14 Hi Res Splatter Brushes

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Pack of 14 huge splatter Photoshop CS3 brushes, each one about 2500px. Made from hi res scans of ink splatters, vectorized in Illustrator and converted to the .abr file.

10.2 New Dot Splatter Brushes

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Pack of 11 splatter Photoshopbrushes.
Download Brush Set here
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446 comments

  1. Whoah, what a GREAT list! Thanks for sharing – I already had many of them in my arsenal, but not all!

    Keep up the good work.

  2. Wow, I tried commenting but it doesn’t seem to get through. Maybe it was flagged as spam :p

    Anyway, just to reinforce that “New Dot Splatter Brushes” by Joe McDermott above has been invalid. You can’t download it from the link provided.

    Hope this helps.

  3. This is a very good list… It would be useful for anyone, anytime. More useful while designing some headers or banners. Thanks for the list…

  4. Love the brushes – brilliant resource. However i couldn’t find any info on the licenses. can they be used for commercial purposes? Thanks

  5. Bloody brilliant! It’s always easy to find brushes, but its a hassle to find exactly what you want organized so well! Great job, Thanks!

  6. Hi!
    This is such a wonderful service you are providing. I downloaded the brushes without incident and used one of them to create the background on my website. These brush presets are HOT!

    Cant thank you enough. :-)

  7. Thanks a lot these nice brushes but i want very ordinary ladies sketches blong to village and they will be worshiping any tree.
    2. Second thing is I want some brushes electricity pols.
    A lot of thanks.

  8. Hey guys,

    I am not able to download these brushes! Can anyone pls help me out. I have Photoshop 7, and I am using WINDOWS VISTA.

    1. “I hope the artists on deviantart know youa re posting their work here.”

      They don’t know, nor does it link to my original page where my rules are posted just the download link :/.

  9. slpendid!!!…this is great work done…its really amazing ..n i got a new starting…again n infinite ways to explore
    my ideas…

  10. Fantastic.

    All this filter or brush as it is often called are nice, which makes the work of all designers, and everyone who conosca these types of applications.

    Very good.

  11. Hatur Nuhun sateu acana tos nyayogian . .
    Kaangge pisan ku abdi . .
    Doakeun band abdi sing sukses meh engke di gentosan.
    Amien ya Robbal Alamin.
    ^_^

  12. Fantastic.

    All this filter or brush as it is often called are nice, which makes the work of all designers, and everyone who conosca these types of applications.

    Very good.

  13. Fantastic.
    All this filter or brush as it is often called are nice, which makes the work of all designers.It would be useful for anyone, anytime. More useful while designing some headers or banners. Thanks for the list…

  14. i download these brushes but they didn’t vrk in photoshop 7.0 plz tell me wts da mistake coz i want 2 use them plz guaide me i m w8ing n i use win xp

  15. Hi,
    You guys did really very fabulous job.I downloaded almost every brush which is making my job beautiful.Thanks a lot…
    Best regards,
    surya

  16. hi,
    i am starts learning photoshop with internet tuturials. pls let me know how the brushs to download in software.
    help me.

    1. Hi,

      This is Roy

      Its very easy to download the brushes and install

      1st..
      go to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\Presets\Brushes

      paste yours downloaded brushes to this place

      and open photoshop
      go to brushes on top right arrow “loadbrushes”

      load all your brushes to this place

      then start using brushes

      lets rock it

  17. Wow you’ve really got everything there, smoke, floral, splatter, wood texture and even hair ;) which looks amazing by the way. Thanks for sharing this great collection.

  18. Absolutely fantastic collection. Off to convert to Gimp. My client will think I’m a genius!!!

    Thanks.

  19. 1000 sets? Wow that’s a lot of brushes collection. Surely will try most of these brushes. Thanks for the great post!

  20. Hy!
    Someone can send me 1000+ brushes on xpt2010 @gmail.com?
    you can upload the pack, in anyhub.net
    Have a nice day!

  21. oooooooooooohhhhh thats verry veryy attractive and efficient brushs . buuuuuuuut when I download this , its not open _ it seved zipped . pleas help me to use this brushs …… thanks very much

  22. (^_^)(^_^)(^_^)(^_^)(^_^)(^_^)(^_^)(^_^)(^_^)(^_^)(^_^)(^_^)

    Thanks,
    all of u……guise, for your great shearing.
    your brushes is really rocks.

  23. hei hei ;D
    ehm i think the download sites are no longer active….ehm could you help me please..maybe send me all of these brushes as mail…or make new download sites ;D
    please read this
    it´s very important for me

  24. Great information. I got lucky and found your site from a random Google search. Fortunately for me, this topic just happens to be something that I’ve been trying to find more info on for research purpose. Keep us the great and thanks a lot.

  25. Oh My GOD…..really awesome….. thank you so much for sharing here….

    i have no words to express my feelings…..

  26. I’m trying to download some of these brushes but it turn’s out to be a zip file..anyone who knows why this is happening?

  27. Hi would you mind letting me know which web host you’re using? I’ve loaded your blog in 3 different internet browsers and I must say this blog loads a lot quicker then most. Can you suggest a good web hosting provider at a reasonable price? Cheers, I appreciate it!

  28. I downloaded from your site some of the photoshop brushes, well thank you for the stock, will check it out.

    Thanking you
    Faris Khan

  29. This is the greatest website I think. I’ve started Photoshopping from yesterday.But with a little imagination everybody can do something special only with few brushes :)

    Thanks a lot

  30. I was first to photoshop and i was like standing before a great wall and no way to climb. this site gave me a rope to climb tht wall thankzzzz

  31. Thanx Dud! This sit is very cool and very helpful. I really like this site for spacial designing Brushes. Keep it Up

  32. Hello! I’ve downloaded some of the free brushes here and I’m currently making designs for shirts that I would like to sell. Will it be alright to use those in the purpose of adding elements to my designs? I just like to know if it’s legal before anything at all.

  33. This is one huge collection of brush sets. Thanks to your team for compiling something like this some 4 years ago that is still helping us today. Great work.

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