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
Jani, 26 October 2008
Wow! This many! And for free, thanks! Screw Photoshop! :D
Raine, 19 January 2010
I agree! I love GIMP and these brushes! :D
gorgiette, 13 October 2010
i love gimp!! <3
lexi, 03 March 2010
i agree these r amazing!! ^^
dan r, 16 April 2011
lol seriously. was thinking the same thing.
Simon from Otooo, 26 October 2008
Sweet, although I’m still a photoshop guy :)
Danno, 26 October 2008
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.
Mariah|NC|, 30 January 2010
Why don’t you go back to using Photoshop then?
FBrushes, 26 October 2008
I think GIMP will rock in the near future! :D
chollenbeck, 14 January 2010
what do you mean in the future? Gimp rocks now…..
nomnomnomnom, 17 December 2010
I know and with this many brushes ittl be better like love this site now
Freddywang, 26 October 2008
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 ;-)
Raul, 26 October 2008
nice
insicdesigns, 26 October 2008
wow i like the this collection of gimp brushes.
phipphin, 26 October 2008
Great Collection. Thanks
crowd, 26 October 2008
One more source
http://gimp-tutorials.net/taxonomy/term/21
liam, 27 October 2008
Sweet. I don’t use Gimp, but didn’t know there was such great stuff available for gimp.
Naldz Graphics, 27 October 2008
these are really cool list of brushes.downloading some of them:)thanks a lot
Ronald
ericb, 27 October 2008
thanks for sharing this one! great collection!
John thomas, 27 October 2008
Wow, you truly delivered! very nice indeed.
Jiff
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Gimper, 27 October 2008
GIMP 2.4 and above fully support PS .abr brushes so there the days of GIMP specific are over.
stelt, 27 October 2008
I see “vector”, but not “SVG” ?!
What’s this other format?
Ouipas, 27 October 2008
Great collection. Can’t wait to try them out.
cheers !
Mr. Little, 27 October 2008
Wow, nice list. This is definitely bookmark worthy, thanks.
Mitternacht, 27 October 2008
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.
fav8r, 28 October 2008
thanks,its helpful.
Shea, 28 October 2008
Thanks for these! Can’t wait to play with them.
Rishi Luchun, 28 October 2008
Nice collection
Thanks!
Ken, 28 October 2008
This is awesome. Don’t use GIMP, but will give it a try to check out these brushes. Thanks for the post!
Da brush, 30 October 2008
Nice list
@Ken: Try it, GIMP is free ;)
Hillbilly, 31 October 2008
FANNNTASTIC!!!
Noupe Rocks!
Thanks,
Jeromy
^^paupau^^, 04 November 2008
>>gawd! I so love this collection… will use ‘em.. Thanks much!
greg, 05 November 2008
I like new GIMP verion! Great program.
jaider, 07 November 2008
Por fin te encontre: Brushes GIMPs.
Que gran coleccion. Tiene todos y mas de lo que habia imaginado encontrar.
gracias, muchas gracias.
Bendiciones.
web design, 11 November 2008
Get PS and you won’t need any of these brushes anymore. Now bury me :)
Esmeralda Kerr, 12 November 2008
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Jon Williams, 29 November 2008
Great roundup, thankyou.
Asmaa, 05 December 2008
Amazing Effort.. can’t comment .. just a very big THANX :)
itsuts, 29 October 2009
Pweety nice
anonymous, 03 May 2010
i totally agree!
thanks for these brushes!!!!
quaza12, 14 November 2009
i want to know how to use this broches
anonymous, 03 May 2010
there are some links that tell us how to use the brushes, i think.
pati, 16 November 2009
Greate! :D thanks :*
theo, 04 December 2009
I dled them but i cant make any of them look cool like that because there always 1 solid color HELP PLS!
emo-crazy, 18 January 2010
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
sam, 06 December 2009
nice thank u !!
kenisha, 07 December 2009
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
foshoelpy, 08 December 2009
awesome lol haha im so high (on weed) =)
J., 11 December 2009
I like it because opens the opportunity for me to make stuff where ever I am @ good job thanks man.
ruth, 14 December 2009
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??
Sparkles, 18 December 2009
Wow, this is a very nice collection of gimp brushes!
xoxo Sparkles
Beni, 13 January 2010
hey, wie kann man die benutzen?
pheerry, 27 January 2010
nice post, thanx for share..
hammygirl, 02 February 2010
Thank you so much! I just started on GIMP so this helps cover up bad earasing! lol! Thanks!
Serkan, 07 February 2010
Thanks for the brush sets, great collection. Gimp Rocks :)
Storme', 14 February 2010
i have no idea how to download brushes
Andrew, 16 February 2010
Thanks for the collection.
Very nice brushes!!!
baz, 20 February 2010
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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Shoshooo, 07 March 2010
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
löniboy, 06 June 2010
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^
Crispin, 14 June 2010
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
Josh, 09 July 2010
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/
iMadalin, 07 July 2010
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.
Hanna, 24 July 2010
How to use them?
Bye bye photoshop, 11 August 2010
Woah these brushes are sooooo amazing!
Amambe, 19 August 2010
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.
celebzluvergarl, 07 September 2010
I love these brushes! Photoshop is so expensive but the functions are almost the same as GIMP but i think GIMP ROCKS TO THE MAXX!!!
i’d rather use up my comp space to download this software and not waste any money or time on photoshop…..
thanks for sharing these brushes!! ?
Fears, 09 September 2010
I am new to this and am trying to create a watermark for photos. This all seems “greek” to me. The links to help me understand how it all works are not working. Can someone help me and put this all into “dummy terms”? Ive dled gimp and some brushes. So..now what?
AlleyJack, 23 September 2010
The 1100 Gimp Brushes package appears to be a corrupted archive! I can’t extract anything from it. (Using Windows XP.)
Hey Fears, see if this article helps you at all.
1antares1, 28 September 2010
Thanks! I love gimp and you :P
sav, 07 October 2010
Thank you very much! this is so cool!
Arkam, 14 October 2010
i like this,,,
Manisha, 02 November 2010
Thanks…these are superb!
Lakeesha Besemer, 06 November 2010
Wow! Image browsing yahoo and google all day for this and that i eventually found it right here!
$aRa, 20 November 2010
i really love the blood one! thx alot :D
Westminstere, 22 November 2010
Is there any way to download these files so they aren’t “read only”? Because of the read only I am unable to change the brush size and many come through larger than my original image. I’m pretty new to Gimp, so maybe I’m just being dumb.
JSDK, 12 December 2010
Its Fantastic my Friend Very Good Brushes
silvia, 12 December 2010
i may not be professional yet but sure i m able to recognize goooood stuff!!!
in this over populated e-world, i can’t help thinking there are some people who like good things..
and there is no need to translate the word “good”in the right way
it sounds like that for me:
when i feel a line,a perfect straight line with its points all inside aligned..aligned so well ..
and that’s all for watching your web-site..
aahahahhaha!!!!!
Suzie Dokuchitz, 23 December 2010
Excellent publish. Very refreshing provided all the duplicate material available. Thanks for performing some thing original.
Connor, 27 December 2010
I have a little problem. The 1100 brush set link is broken.
dian, 28 December 2010
I am just learning GIMP and found that there are just few brushes available in GIMP and I think I need some more…I found this collection and WOW…thank for the brushes.
adia, 26 January 2011
thanks a lot
Shoaib, 04 February 2011
it is very use full blog . i take benefits here in my designs.
me, duh!, 22 March 2011
i downloaded a lot of these, but they haven’t shown up in my gimp program, i have closed it down and brought it up several times, what is wrong. some work and some don’t – i have done this before, so i know what i’m doing, what it wrong?
Hamid, 26 March 2011
Great! Thank you for sharing
Haley, 12 April 2011
Thank you so much! I totally needed new brushes for my artwork and these are just perfect! THANK YOU! :D
Cutey0ugha, 16 April 2011
Very Nice!thx 4 sharing i neEd these…thax u very much!G0D BleEs U <3 hugz
amar, 21 April 2011
very nice noupe this may helps me lot
ICY, 27 May 2011
THANK YOU THANK YOU. SO FAR NO VIRUS!
Kaede, 30 May 2011
Thanks for the brushes, their good for backgrounds and the likes! :)
muheet, 24 June 2011
collection is simly da best!!!!!
Jetilond, 25 July 2011
I LOVE THOSE BRUSHES
AWESOME
THANKS TO THE CREATORS
tori, 29 July 2011
Thank you so much! These are awesome and I look forward to using them. Very appreciated. :)
Adry, 21 August 2011
Hi!
Thank you for your brushes!
These are really free?
gmbelART, 05 September 2011
thanks for sharing .. :)
Mckenzie, 20 September 2011
I <3 gimp! Can't wait to use my new brushes! :DDD
Josh, 10 October 2011
5.3 needs to be removed…i stumbled accross this trying to enhance my gimp install with some better brushes….pretty nice just i think some of them don’t work in the way of downloading them o.O
matchima, 25 October 2011
THANK YOU THANK YOU.
Nisa, 22 December 2011
hi thanks for the information that you share :) it’s really useful :) btw could you share to us how to edit photo by GIMP? thank you so much :)
Biscuit, 22 January 2012
These all look so amazing, but when I tried downloading them they wouldn’t save to my computer and what not. How do I download these (if I’m not doing so right)? Thanks.
mochazina, 03 February 2012
WOW!! Just downloaded every last one of them! :-) Even went over to hawksmont’s site and got all of those! My gimp is very happy right now! :-D
^^Download by opening the zip files, then extracting the .gbr files to your gimp brushes folder. Mine is C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\share\gimp\2.0\brushes\