1000+ FREE High Resolution GIMP Brushes
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Last week we published our first GIMP post “30+ Exceptional GIMP Tutorials and Resources” and saw a great appreciation from our readers. So this week, i would like to share with you 1000+ high-Resolution GIMP brushes that will be perfect for any project you may happen to be working on. Also you will find some useful tutorial to teach you how to create your first GIMP brush-set and how to convert Photoshop brushes into GIMP brushes and more.
Please note that Photoshop Brushes are now Fully Compatible with Gimp 2.4 and up. So you can now use any PS brush in your GIMP software. For another huge collection of Photoshop brushes, you might find some really stunning brushes over here.
Important: Licenses of every brush set varies, so be sure to check that information before using them.
1. Grunge Brush set
1.1 GIMP Grunge Brush Pack 2
10 grunge GIMP brushes.
1.2 GIMP Scratchies
Containing all six brushes in this set for the GIMP
1.3 Grunge brush set 3
Includes an imagepack and brushes for Gimp.
1.4 More grunge brushes
13 grunge brushes; includes .gbrs for Gimp and an imagepack.
2. Floral and Plant Brushes
2.1 Floral I
There are 9 big brushes – at lest 1300 px each, so you can use them also in printed stuff.
2.2 Floral Part 2
There are 6 big brushes of flower brushes.
2.3 Floral Brushes
10 greyscale floral .gbr brushes for GIMP. They are about 400x400px and have blended edges.
2.4 Pine – MEGA PACK
There are 16 full branches and 33 smaller parts, so you can design you own branches yourself.
2.5 Vector Foliage-Plants
3. Nature GIMP Brushes
3.1 Cloudy Brushes
Realistic cloudy brushes for your skyscaping needs.
3.2 GIMP Brushes: Moon
There are 9 big brushes in this set.
3.2 Lightning Brushes
A nice set of lightning brushes.
4. Glitter, Splatter and Snowflakes
4.1 GIMP Glitter Brushes
Realistic cloudy brushes for your skyscaping needs.
4.2 Splatter Brushes
These brushes were originally created for Photoshop then converted to GIMP brushes.
4.3 Snowflakes
There are 20 snowflakes in this pack. They were created in CorelDraw 11 and then converted with GIMP 2.2.
5. Water and Bubbles Brush sets
4.4 GIMP Water Brushes
This set contains 36 brushes created in Photoshop 7.0 and converted with GIMP 2.2.6
4.5 Bubbles
This set contains 9 brushes created in Photoshop 7.0 and converted with GIMP 2.2.
5. Miscilnea GIMP Brushes
5.1 Mask Brushes
5 mask brushes. GBRs for Gimp and an imagepack.
5.2 Butterflies Part I
There are 9 brushes in this pack. They were created in CorelDraw 11 and then converted with GIMP 2.2.
5.3 1100 Gimp Brushes
This set contains 1100 brushes for GIMP
5.4 Doodles Part 2
This set contains 41 ! brushes created for GIMP
5.5 Blood Brushes
Looking for splattery blood brushes, here you go.
5.6 Inner Universe Brushes
5.7 GIMP Odysee Brushes
5.8 GIMP Galactic Brushes
5.9 GIMP Rise Brushes
5.10 GIMP Edge Brushes
5.11 15 Vector Brushes
15 vector .gbr brushes for GIMP.
GIMP Brush Tutorials
1. Creating Spikey Brushes
Learn how to create spike-looking brushes.
2. Make a .GBR Brush
Learn how to create .GBR brushes from pre-existing files
- 3. How to install Gimp brushes
- 4. How to convert Photoshop brushes into GIMP brushes
- 5. Let’s create some brushes!
- 6. Creating a brush with variable size
- 7. PS Filter Workaround in GIMP
Tags: Gimp, GIMP Brushes
Wow! This many! And for free, thanks! Screw Photoshop! :D
I agree! I love GIMP and these brushes! :D
i agree these r amazing!! ^^
Sweet, although I’m still a photoshop guy :)
Impressive list as usual. I’ll spend hours just working the header image on my site and although I love the GIMP project — and think it’s a fantastic alternative to Photoshop — I personally found it quite unintuitive to use as a beginner. Maybe it’s because my brain space already well populated with the way Adobe does things.
Why don’t you go back to using Photoshop then?
I think GIMP will rock in the near future! :D
what do you mean in the future? Gimp rocks now…..
Wow, nice collection. Some are available in Photoshop as well. The nice thing of GIMP is that it reads Photoshop Brushes as well, but not the other way around ;-)
nice
wow i like the this collection of gimp brushes.
Great Collection. Thanks
One more source
http://gimp-tutorials.net/taxonomy/term/21
Sweet. I don’t use Gimp, but didn’t know there was such great stuff available for gimp.
these are really cool list of brushes.downloading some of them:)thanks a lot
Ronald
thanks for sharing this one! great collection!
Wow, you truly delivered! very nice indeed.
Jiff
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And one hopes that even more GIMP brushes will be created so that this time next year there will be a thousand more. Yay for GIMP!
GIMP 2.4 and above fully support PS .abr brushes so there the days of GIMP specific are over.
I see “vector”, but not “SVG” ?!
What’s this other format?
Great collection. Can’t wait to try them out.
cheers !
Wow, nice list. This is definitely bookmark worthy, thanks.
Very useful resource, thank you very much. Gimp has some usability problems as compared to Photoshop, but can do a great job once you get used to it.
Please note that Photoshop brushes (*.abr) work perfectly with Gimp, though. I use tons of them.
thanks,its helpful.
Thanks for these! Can’t wait to play with them.
Nice collection
Thanks!
This is awesome. Don’t use GIMP, but will give it a try to check out these brushes. Thanks for the post!
Nice list
@Ken: Try it, GIMP is free ;)
FANNNTASTIC!!!
Noupe Rocks!
Thanks,
Jeromy
>>gawd! I so love this collection… will use ‘em.. Thanks much!
I like new GIMP verion! Great program.
Por fin te encontre: Brushes GIMPs.
Que gran coleccion. Tiene todos y mas de lo que habia imaginado encontrar.
gracias, muchas gracias.
Bendiciones.
Get PS and you won’t need any of these brushes anymore. Now bury me :)
igivfpjchubpoek0
Great roundup, thankyou.
Amazing Effort.. can’t comment .. just a very big THANX :)
Pweety nice
i totally agree!
thanks for these brushes!!!!
i want to know how to use this broches
there are some links that tell us how to use the brushes, i think.
Greate! :D thanks :*
I dled them but i cant make any of them look cool like that because there always 1 solid color HELP PLS!
where it says normal click the down arrow and click soft light and then go on brushes and click a size of the faded brush and then it wont be a solid colour
nice thank u !!
how do i change the colour of the brus and take out white background/ or how do i include it in my set of brushes
awesome lol haha im so high (on weed) =)
I like it because opens the opportunity for me to make stuff where ever I am @ good job thanks man.
i have a question… i.e: GIMP Edge Brushes or the galactic one.. it seems to be a glow effect.. how can i obtain that effect…using gimp??
Wow, this is a very nice collection of gimp brushes!
xoxo Sparkles
hey, wie kann man die benutzen?
nice post, thanx for share..
Thank you so much! I just started on GIMP so this helps cover up bad earasing! lol! Thanks!
Thanks for the brush sets, great collection. Gimp Rocks :)
i have no idea how to download brushes
Thanks for the collection.
Very nice brushes!!!
hi – love the grundge brushes, really excellent. however there is no licence file in any of the zips, would be nice to know terms of use.
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Hey could someone help me by explaining how to put them on GIMP so that I can use them, would have been really nice:D
Wow, thanks for sharing, I download it using axel in my ubuntu. wow, great collections. Regards.
great!! love it.
hope gimp will cope with the loong loading time when starting it with all the brushes someday ._.
and it’s fine that you didnt just upload the brushes but wrote the links, because a giant lot of deviantart members are hating it to find their brushes in another one’s brush pack ;)
so @ all: please consult the wishes of all the uploaders ;) they all deserve a thank you ^o^
I just downloaded the Gimp brushes and have extracted the file but how do you install the new brushes ? If i open the file it lanches the Gimp Graphic program and displays an image (Ex: a picture of a lightning bolt) is this all there is to it ? Just photostocked images of paints ?I must be doing something wrong ? Can you please let me know how to install the brushes and how to select which brush for it’s use .Thank you
In Windows XP
Install GIMP brushes
GIMP Brushes and gradients are installed similarly – extract and drop the brushes into C:\Document and Settings\\.gimp-\brushes\ and gradients into C:\Document and Settings\\.gimp-\gradients\
In Mac OS X
Brushes can be installed by dropping them (.gbr files) into the brush search path that is specified in GIMP’s preferences. If you have not tweaked anything, this is usually
/Users/username/.gimp-2.x/brushes/
where 2.x denotes the version number of GIMP you are using (version number is visible in the GIMP startup splash page). Note that you should replace ‘username’ with your short username (not the full name).
Install GIMP brushes in Linux
Go to your Home folder. You have to make hidden files/folders visible, so hit Ctrl+H. Go to the directory named .gimp-2.x (where 2.x is version number of GIMP you are using). Within that folder, there are subfolders, one of which is brushes. Drop your brushes to that folder
Source: http://www.techzilo.com/how-to-install-gimp-plugins-scripts-brushes-and-gradients/
Thank you for such a great resource to us developers and designers, lovers of open source community.
I have been using Linux since 1998 and had been running sometimes Windows for Photoshop, only small things done, but with this :D Windows and PS is long gone from my computer.
Only GIMP and Inkscape on my Ubuntu 64bit laptop with my beloved Eclipse (PDT, JDT and CDT) :P, focusing only on programming.
How to use them?
Woah these brushes are sooooo amazing!
it’s pretty easy in windows vista, just open the file location for gimp, find the brushes file, and drag and drop them from where they are to the brushes file. when you open gimp, the brushes are there.