Vandelay Design

200+ Photoshop Brushes for Light, Sparkles, Glows and Glitter

Published August 18th, 2008 in Design

There are unlimited possibilities when working with lighting effects in Photoshop. A number of designers have created custom brushes especially for various sparkles, glows and glitter. In this post you’ll find links to over 200 free brushes that you can download to reduce the amount of time spent on your designs and to produce some excellent results.

Glow Brushes – 11 brushes

Glow Brushes

Glitter and Sparkle Brushes – 28 brushes

Glitter and Sparkle Brushes

Stars and Sparkles – 14 brushes

Stars and Sparklers

Sparklies Brushes – 29 brushes

Sparklies

Lightning Brushes 1 – 6 brushes

Lightning Brushes 1

Lightning Brushes 2 – 7 brushes

Lightning Brushes 2

Star Brushes – 10 brushes

Star Brushes

Stars 01 – 10 brushes

Stars01

Light Beams – 26 brushes

Light Beams

Lightning Brushes 3 – 24 brushes

Lightning Brushes 3

Lightning Brushes 4 – 10 brushes

Lightning Brushes 4

Fantazy Sparkle Abstract – 5 brushes

Fantazy Sparkle

Light Brush Set – 15 brushes

Light Brush Set

Additional brushes to check out:

75 Responses to “200+ Photoshop Brushes for Light, Sparkles, Glows and Glitter”

Angie Bowen August 18th, 2008

Very nice list, thanks for putting it together!

NaldzGraphics August 19th, 2008

great list of of brushes.thanks for the effort collecting them all.im gonna download some of this brushes for sure:)

Ronald

A u d e e August 19th, 2008

Glow Brushes (#1 ) and Sparklies Brushes are amazing :D
Great post round up!
T h a n k y o u ………………..

Tom Ross August 19th, 2008

Bookmarked! Thanks for the great brushes :)

Rahul August 19th, 2008

All that glitters is not gold.

But this article is a collectors item. Thanks mate.

Vandelay Design August 19th, 2008

Angie and NaldzGraphics,
Thanks. I’m glad it was helpful.

Audee,
Yeah, I think that was my favorite too.

Tom and Rahul,
Thanks for the comments.

Tim August 20th, 2008

I actually just wrote a tutorial on how to do this as well as created some custom brushes

http://assaultblog.com/trendy-lightburst-motion-trail-photoshop-tutorial/

MP3sale review August 21st, 2008

wow…thanks for the links…i will surely download them as soon as possible.

Architectural lighting August 22nd, 2008

Nice list of Brushes, its always great visiting your site. Lightning Brushes will really be useful for me now.

Thanks

Thomas | Brush King August 27th, 2008

Thanks Steven

Squeaky August 30th, 2008

Very nice collection of Photoshop brushes, and looking forward to trying some of them out on my next blog project.

Danh ba web 2.0 November 3rd, 2008

Great resources for me
Thanks you very much !

mjobiz December 22nd, 2008

wow it is good the lighting effect was the best
am a photoshop kiddie.

Craig January 9th, 2009

Good selection, thanks

Rudi June 19th, 2009

love the first one, “Glowin in da dark”
cool stuff bro

Balitechy August 25th, 2009

Great lists, Thanks..

Dennis August 31st, 2009

Nice collection as always!

Andrew October 5th, 2009

Nice Thanks this will help a lot for doing sigs for my friends.
L8er <

Kay November 3rd, 2009

You have to update the links. The lightbeams brushes link doesn’t work, change it to http://www.obsidiandawn.com/light-beams-photoshop-gimp-brushes

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