200 Best Free Photoshop Brushes to Download

By Hongkiat Lim
in Photoshop.
Updated on April 17, 2020.

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Brushes are one of the best and most used Photoshop tools that designers love to use to enrich their designs. They not just help you save time and effort that is required in creating complex design elements but give a creative touch to your artwork as well.

As designers are always on a lookout for creative and free brushes in their design arsenal, I present you the most comprehensive list of best free Photoshop brushes. In this list, there are brushes related to almost everything that comes under the sun. Also, all brushes are high quality and have been taken from different Photoshop brushes sites.

Let’s take a look. Brace yourself, this is going to be a long list!

Grunge Photoshop Brushes

Grunge 2

High quality and free grunge brushes that help you add extra texture or give dirty look to any type of design.

Street Grunge

A set of simple yet high-quality street grunge brushes to give gravel, street or ripped effect to your art work.

HighTech Reloaded

This is a set of 12 high-resolution Photoshop brushes that are compatible with PS7 and above.

Paint Lines

Highly aesthetic paint lines brushes (a set of 24 brushes) that are very suitable for creating grungy backgrounds.

New Grunge

If you are looking to make a creative textured background, try out this fresh set of grunge brushes by Titi Montoya.

Subtle Grunge

Sometimes in a design, you need a slightly textured background that can be done through subtle grunge brushes. These brushes are free to use in both your personal and commercial projects.

Watercolour and Ink

A pack of free Photoshop brushes to give ink and watercolor effect. All of these brushes have been created using either watercolor paints or Indian ink on card.

Grit and Grunge

Download this pack of high quality grunge Photoshop brushes. These are also free for commercial and non-commercial use.

Grunge-Splatterish

A set of 7 high-quality brushes with splatter effect that can be used as a background or to give dirty effect to your design.

Grunge Paint

A set of 6 high-resolution brushes to give grungy paint effect. Though the creator does not ask for credits but favors will be appreciated.

High Res Grunge

A cool preset of 7 hi-res grunge brushes by Adhar Maheshwari. No credits required for any kind of use.

42 Subtle Brushes

If you’re looking for grungy but a little subtle background this pack is just for you. The pack has 42 subtle grungy textured bushes suitable for Photoshop CS.

Grunge

Yet another set of brushes by Titi Montoya. These Photoshop brushes are high-resolution and richly grungy.

Urban Retro Brushes/ Save Ai Edition

A pack of 12 brushes from grungy shapes, clouds, and an additional 5 optical flares. These are free to use in any kind of project.

Zelink’s Cataclysm Brushset

Based upon the stars of the heavens, this set is designed to bring violent destruction upon the use of other sets.

Crack Brushes I

There are 17 high quality brushes 1000+ created in Photoshop 7. Before using these brushes do read the terms of use and further instructions.

Echolalie-stock 32

The package contains 15 different brushes made of different wall pictures. You will find cracks, scratches and dirty brushes.

Floral brushes

8 large floral brushes, for use on headers and wallpapers. 7 100×100 floral brushes, for use on icons.

Holes, Holes, Holes

These hole brushes are higher res so would be good for higher res projects as well.

Smudge Brushes

Smudge brushes that can be used in almost any kind of design. These are free to download without the need to credit the creator.

Industrial Brushes

An array of good quality Photoshop CS3 brushes with different elements of industry like chimnies, metalic structures and engines etc – all absolutely free to use.

Nature-inspired Photoshop Brushes

Water Waves Photoshop Brushes 2

Drawing water waves all from scratch is quite a hectic task. Instead, you can use these water waves brushes to save time and give a cool effect.

Snow Photoshop Brushes 2

This is a set of 15 high-quality snow effect brushes with 2500+ px size. A great substitute for creating snow effect manually. Ideal for flyers, banners, cards, art.

Magic Speels Moon

This is an amazing set of 21 Photoshop brushes with surreal elements like moon, fairy, angel wings and feather etc.

Plant Brushes

Beautifully line-drawn brushes (set of 11 free brushes). These brushes include leaves, flowers, branches, ideal to create any invitation or wedding card.

Sketchy Cartography Brushes

Create an ancient map or maybe illustration for a storybook with these cartography brushes that give a nice hand-sketched look. The set includes map lines, ancient language and geographical elements like mountains and trees etc.

Owls Brushes

Wow your clients with these amazing and mysterious owl-feather brushes. Can be used for making bookmarks or just a surreal design.

Stardust PS Brushes

A set of 7 stardust brushes to create a busy background, starry sky or perhaps your own Galaxy.

The Magical Snowflakes

Your Christmas, New Year or Winter season designs always have something to do with snowflakes. And what better way to create magical snowflakes than this set of 15 PS brushes.

Nature Silhouettes Trees & Grass

Spring summer designs are never complete without trees and grass. Use this set of high-quality trees and grass silhouettes brushes that are totally custimizable.

Clouds

A pack of 15 Photoshop brushes free for both commercial and non-commercial use. You can apply them to create clouds or a cloudy background on any kind of design.

Lightning

50 high-quality sky lightning strike and lightning bolt brushes for thunderstorm effects. You can easily add any color to them and use them in your designs.

Rain

High-quality raindrops and raining effect brushes. These are free to use and ideal for weather websites or apps, or wherever suitable.

Aurora

A set of 10 cool brushes for Photoshop CS1 to CS5 by ShiftyJ. These are abstract brushes inspired by the Aurora lights, however with a modern touch.

Feathers and Birds

Most used among the nature-inspired designs, these are 12 brushes representing feathers and birds.

Flower

A beautiful flower brushes set with a variety of different flowers. Customize them, use them in your designs but don’t forget to credit the creator.

Night Sky

A set of 3 large brushes of night sky (space dust, stars, moon scenes, etc.). Use them to create cool flyers, brochures, wallpapers and even twitter backgrounds.

Photoshop Fireworks

Designed by WebDesignerLab, these 12 Photoshop fireworks brushes are best suited for New year celebration-themed design projects.

Crystal Shapes

Abstract crystal shape Photoshop brushes, designed using Photoshop CS3 (and should work for anything above). These can be used in just about any design.

Attractors Effect

A huge set of over 50 brushes with light effect or Attractors Effect. All of these brushes are over 900px in size.

Cute Flowers

The set contains five high-resolution Photoshop brushes representing flowers of different designs.

Smoke

These are hi-res Photoshop brushes of smoke. All of these brushes are free to use for commercial and non-commercial projects.

Handmade Halos

Here are 8 hand-drawn photoshop brushes of different halos or circular designs. These brushes are ideal for designing wedding or invitation cards or as a random design element.

Summer Brushes

A set of premium summer brushes that includes summer elements like butterflies, swirls, trees and other floral elements.

Rose Petals

These are free and high-quality rose petal brushes created using Photoshop CS3 by Ann Frost.

Gladius

A set of edgy techno brushes with abstract shapes. The author has tried to jump out of his comfort zone and create a fresh set of brushes.

50 High-Res Star

Here is yet another set of 6 totally high-res star brushes that can be downloaded and used for free.

Moon Brush Set

Want to create a hyper-realistic moon, half moon or maybe full? Try among this set of high quality moon brushes.

Smokey Fire Brushes

With this set of smokey fire Photoshop brushes, you will be getting a huge pack of 50 brushes and they all are compatible with PS 7 and up!

Fibers #1

Another set of brushes in this list by Titi Montaya. The pack includes 5 high definition (1000×1000) brushes with fibers effect.

Electrifying Lightning Brush Strikes

Want to add electrifying lightening effects in your artwork? You must try among this set of high-quality lightning brushes and patterns.

Frosty Edges Brush

Add lovely frosty effect to your Winter or Christmas artwork with these frosty edges brushes that are totally free to download.

Ultimate Space Brush Pack – Part 1

A comprehensive set of space and planets brushes. The set contains 154 hi-res space elements like falling stars, planets, nebulae, and galaxies etc.

Tree Borders Brushes

Here are some amazing tree border brushes that can help you achieve realistic plant/ tree effects.

PatrioticPack Part 1

Awesome Photoshop brushes to bring in the 4th of July or similar celebration effect. The pack contains 10 detailed firework explosion brushes.

Jellyfish Brushes

Sea life is always difficult to draw but when you have such jellyfish brushes it becomes piece of cake.

Butterfly Wings Brush Set

Create beautiful butterfly wings with this interesting set. Through these are created on CS 2, however, you can also get PS7 brushes as well.

Palm Trees Brushes for PS

Create beautiful palm trees with this set of 10 high quality Photoshop brushes.

8 fantasy butterfly brushes

Take a look at these 8 really beautiful fantasy butterfly brushes to spice up your painting.

Butterflies with Flowers

Give your designs a spring, summer or floral look with these butterflies with flower brushes set.

Demolished Cracks

Here are 12 demolished cracks brushes compatible with PS 7 and up. You can use this to draw cracked wall or any other surface.

Moon brushes for PS7 v.2

Yet another set of moon brushes in this list. These are 45 huge, medium and small moon brushes for PS7 and above.

Rainy

Create surreal rain effect with these high-quality rain brushes.

Spider Webs

Ideal for giving your designs Halloween and other scarry or old effect, these 15 spider web brushes are best to save your time and effort.

Paint and Watercolor Photoshop Brushes

70 Cactuses Plants Brushes

Create colorful cactuses and succulents with these cactuses plants brushes. These brushes have hand-drawn watercolor effect.

Watercolor Tropical Brushes

Tropical animals, birds, fish and plants drawn with watercolor effect. It’s a set of 6 brushes that are free for personal use only.

Brush Of The Wild

Create crazy wild creatures with this set of 4 amazing Photoshop brushes. You can use them for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.

Watercolor Brushes

A huge collection of 93 watercolor effect brushes free for personal and commercial use. The brushes are suitably spaced so you get a constant texture.

Splatter Photoshop Brushes

This set includes 7 splatter type Photoshop brushes that can be used in almost any kind of design.

Kaos 2.0

These are 15 high-resolution (3000×3000) splatter brushes done in Photoshop CS6.

Watercolor and Ink

Created using either watercolor paints or Indian ink on card, here is a pack of 8 high quality free brushes.

WG Watercolor

This pack contains 20 high-resolution brushes (approximately 2000ÃÂ2000 pixels), that are perfect when applied on paper textures.

Watercolor Splatters

A pack of 32 high-quality splatter brushes created with watercolor paint on cold press that can work with PS 7 or above.

Abstract

This is a set of abstract brushes in geometrical shapes ideal to create logos and corporate designs.

Strings And Bubbles Brushes

A se of 12 strings and bubbles brushes set. These are high resolution that makes it a bit slower to download.

Paint Trails

7 high-quality Photoshop brushes to create smudges, grungy and paint trails. These brushes are compatible with PS7 and above.

Abstract 5

A set of 5 Photoshop brushes based on abstract designs suitable for creating backgrounds.

SP Watercolor

A cool pack of 10 hand-painted watercolour brushes. These are great for creating interesting backgrounds or decorating your work.

Artistic

Some abstract artistic brushes for Photoshop and GIMP. These include globs of paint, ink drops, watercolor droplets and brushstrokes, acrylic brushstrokes, and various other artistic media shapes.

Brushes

If you want to paint a picture by using PS brushes only, this set of 36 brushes can give you all the variety you want. It has standard round brushes, smudge brushes, strokes, lines, and clouds etc.

Strokes

Create rough and grungy kind of textures with this collection of strokes and fan brushes. Either it’s a wallpaper or a background, these are quite versatile to use.

Brick Wall

As long as you have these high quality brick brushes in your collection, you’ll never have to draw a wall brick by brick. The brushes work in CS 3 and can be used to create wall background or textures etc.

Watercolor

Watercolor brushes come in handy for all different kinds of projects, especially with paper textures. Here are 25 high-quality watercolor Photoshop brushes preset free to download and use.

Painted Strokes

Give awesome paint strokes effect with these 13 hi-res Photoshop brushes. With these you can create grunge, textured and brush strokes background.

WaterColor Brushes

Designed by John Schill, this is a beautiful watercolor brushes set. You can use all 7 of these brushes for commercial and non-commercial projects.

Spray Paint

A cool pack of 10 brushes for your grungy, hooligan-look designs. You can create walls or funky backgrounds or wallpapers with these paint dripping down brushes.

Paint markers brush set

These cool brushes have been created using actual paint markers. Use them for any design project for free.

Watercolor Splatters

Here is a set of 32 brushes that can work with CS2 to Photoshop 7. Water color splatter have great application in funky desings and print marketing material.

Watercolor Extremum

A huge collection of 41 high-resolution watercolor effects brushes compatible with CS7 and above.

Hi-Res Splatter PS Brush Set

Here are 17 free hi-res Photoshop paint splatter brushes usable for almost any kind of design.

Insane Watercolor Brush Set

As the name suggests these are some of the most insanely creative watercolor brushes. The set has different watercolor paint splashes.

28 Ink and Watercolor Brushes

A set of 28 ink and watercolor brushes. Thes set has been created using Pelikan Watercolors, table salt, and Higgins India ink etc. Free to use the author, however, requires credit.

Acrylic brushes set

This is a set of 14 high-resolution paint effect brushes that have been created using acrylic paint. Free to use for commercial and non-commercial projects.

Sponge Prints and swirls Set

Create awesome backgrounds and textures with 16 sponge paints and swirls brushes.

Abstract Brushset XIII

13 awesome abstract brushes including swirls, and light lines. These are ideal for techno as well as surreal designs.

Andantonius’ Pencil Brush

Quickly and easily create natural-looking pencil sketches, without the pencil. The brush uses both pen pressure and tilt to create a very natural feel and look.

Photo Effects Photoshop Brushes

Bokeh Photoshop Brushes

Bokeh is one of the best background types for any kind of design. So it’s a good idea to keep these cool bokeh effect brushes in your collection.

Cool Splatter Free Brush Set

A cool set of 6 high-quality paint splatter brushes free for commercial and non-commercial use.

30 So What

A set of 30 special Photoshop brushes created for desining magazines and other print material.

Seamless Bokeh Textures

Want a quick and easy way to add bokeh to your images? Download these seamless bokeh textures that are high resolution and free to use.

Ballon

Create a bunch of beautiful hand-drawn balloon with this simple and free brush.

Extreme Lashes

Ideal for magazine artists and fashion graphic designers, here are 8 extreme faux lashes brushes (also a set of 8 flipped brushes so they can be easily used for both eyes).

Hair

Special brushes for different types of hair including bangs, braids, wavy, straight, curly, ponytails etc. The brushes can work with Photoshop and GIMP.

Bokeh

Here are 10 high-quality free bokeh brushes for Photoshop. However, please make sure to read the terms of use before applying these brushes.

Eye-Lashes PS-CS Brush Set

A life-saver for graphic designers who work in the fashion and human art, these are eyelashes brushes created for Photoshop CS.

Artistic Photoshop Brushes

Bubbly Doodle Brushes

This is a free brush set containing 22 hi-res Photoshop brushes in different sizes and variations. The brushes are compatible with any version of Photoshop.

Flower Brushes

Swirly flower and floral brushes that are perfect for borders and corners.

Grass Brushes

This is a set of 10 high-quality grass brushes that are crisp, large and clear – just wonderful for all your nature art projects.

Cherry Blossom 1

Nice cherry blossom flower brushes for lovely floral or spring effect. Just play with some brush presets and spread cherry petals everywhere.

Leafy Frames and Ornament Brushes

With these brushes, you can add just the right amount of Victorian flair to your next design. Each brush is royalty-free and designed by an expert.

Hand Drawn Floral Brushes

This pack comes with 9 hand-drawn original floral designs. You will receive all file formats for you to flip, rotate and modify.

Destroyed Ornament Brushes

A pack of 6 free destroyed ornament brushes made with Photoshop CS6. You can play with brush options, scale texture, increase and decrease to get the best result.

Floral Ornaments Vector Brushes

Here are beautiful floral ornaments vector brushes. You will need Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape to customize these vector ornaments.

C-TECH Brushes

A set of 13 complex tech brushes, all made with PS 7. You can use these brushes in tech-inspired designs or background.

Abstract Brushes 13

A nice set of 12 abstract brushes with geometrical shapes and lines etc. The brushes are free to use but the author would appreciate favors.

Radiate

Radiate brush set was created by running random geometric shapes through the same sequence of Photoshop actions, each time creating something unique.

Fabric Textures

Beautiful fabric texture brushes to be used as clothes and garments artwork. These 9 brushes are totally high resolution and free to use.

Seamless Bokeh Textures

If you want a quick and easy way to add bokeh to your images, download these free bokeh textures. These high-res textures are seamless meaning that you can tile them.

Alien Pencil Doodle

There are 6 Alien doodle brushes files. The author has sketched these doodle brush files by hand with a 2B pencil. Use them for whatever you want.

Tech Brush

A set of 9 technical, sci-fi map like Photoshop brushes. Design futuristic and sci-fi web pages, backgrounds or wallpapers with them. The brushes can be used for techno design background.

Cup Stains

Cup stains are a useful element for making hotel and restaurant designs. You can download this set of 105 high-quality brushes to add to your collection.

Handdrawn Doodle Brushes

Here is a pack of hand-drawn doodle brushes for Photoshop. Vector objects of the doodles are also included in this pack.

Free Cross Hatch Photoshop Brush Set

Ideal for designing backgrounds and textures, cross hatch Photoshop brushes set is free to download.

Tech Brushes

Here are 100+ brushes for Photoshop 6+. The author requests you to give credit if the brushes are used in any project.

Chinese Painting Flowers

Beautiful Chinese painting brushes set of 47 quality brushes. The designer, however, does not allow these to be used in commercial projects.

Blood marks brushes

20 absolutely high-quality brushes to give blood marks effects to your designs. Brushes are compatible with PS7 and above.

Lace Brush Set

If you want to give your designs Lolita-type look, then try these awesome brushes. These are totally free to use for personal and commercial projects.