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35 Tutorials for Mastering Photoshop Brushes

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For Photoshop users, downloading free brushes and creating your own custom brushes can quickly help you to achieve more effective results and improve productivity and efficiency at the same time. There are essentially unlimited options when working with brushes, so it’s a skill that can always be further developed.

Regardless of your skill level in working with brushes you should find some tutorials here for you. Some cover the basic uses and functionality of brushes, some will teach you various ways to create your own custom brushes, and some will help you to develop your skills by using them as an integral part of a design.

You may also be interested in the following collections of Photoshop tutorials:

Rotating Brushes

A simple way to rotate any brush to fit your needs.

Managing Your Brushes and Brush Libraries in Photoshop

Once you’ve downloaded and created a number of brushes, managing and organizing them will become more important.

Photoshop Brush Tutorial: Shape Dynamics - Size Controls

This tutorial looks at the basics of working with brushes and how size control can impact your results.

Define Brush Photoshop Tutorial

A simple tutorial for getting started with creating and working with brushes.

Custom Brushes Tutorial

A quick tutorial to help you create your first brushes in minutes.

Funky Web Design Layout

Create a layout using several different brushes for the header.

How to Install Photoshop Brushes

Knowing how to install brushes is a basic, but necessary, skill.

Creating Your Own Custom Adobe Photoshop Brushes

A nice tutorial for creating useful brushes from public domain images.

Fire Brushes: Photoshop Tutorial

Using brushes can be a quick way to create excellent fire effects.

Adobe Photoshop Brush Dynamics Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to get the most out of simple brushes.

Create Photoshop Brushes for Coffee Stains and Splatters

Use real coffee stains and a scanner to create effective brushes.

Master the Brush in Photoshop

Learn more about various aspects of working with brushes.

Create Custom Photoshop Brush from a Photo

Learn how to create awesome brushes straight from a photograph.

Creating Your Own “Dirt” Brush

An easy way to create a grungy, dirt brush.

Building a Lego Bricks Photoshop Brushes Set

A fun way to work with brushes and Lego shapes.

Creating Your Own Grunge Brushes

Get a trendy grunge look by making your own brushes.

Design a Grungy Web Layout

A real-world example of brushes in action while creating a layout.

Creating Grunge Brushes

Veerle shows us some simple techniques to create impressive results.

Photoshop Brush Tutorial

This tutorial shows how to create a brush from a texture image.

Photoshop Brush Tutorial

See several different possible effects that can be created with brushes.

Advanced Brush Techniques in Photoshop

Go beyond the basics with some of these techniques.

Photoshop Brush Tutorial on deviantART

Learn how to quickly create stunning light effects.

How to Make a Photoshop Brush

Bittbox’s tutorial for creating brushes.

Create Eye-Popping Graphics with Photoshop Brushes

This tutorial from SitePoint shows a few different styles that can be created by using brushes.

Stroke Text with a Brush

A simple way to add some life to text, with plenty of possibilities.

How to Make an Awesome Grungy Paper from Scratch

This Bittbox tutorial uses brushes for creating the grungy paper.

Grunge Type Photoshop Tutorial

Creating Grunge-style text is easy with the help of brushes.

Lighting Effects in Photoshop

This tutorial from Digital Arts makes heavy use of brushes.

Add a Sparkle Trail to a Photo

Use a sparkly brush to enhance a photo.

Really Cool Eclipse Effect in Photoshop

Fabio shows that brushes can even be used for creating an eclipse.

Create Cool Watercolor Effects in Photoshop

Several different brushes are used here to create the watercolor effect.

Amazing Photoshop Light Effect in 10 Steps

Brushes can be used to create sparkling light effects.

Create a Space Explosion from Scratch

Brushes are used here to create the debris in the explosion.

Easily Create a Beautiful, Unique Website Header

Brushes are used for creating the lighting effects on this header.

Abstract Dust and Spray Effect

Using brushes to create this abstract effect.

For more even more Photoshop resources, please see:

Originally Published September 17th, 2008

44 Responses

  1. Brian | September 17th, 2008 at 9:17 pm

    Whoa, I just started writing an identical post yesterday. Guess you beat me to the punch eh? Not a problem, this is a great collection - well done!

  2. Vandelay Design | September 17th, 2008 at 10:15 pm

    Sorry Brian. I’ve had that happen to me before and it kind of sucks.

  3. adelle | September 17th, 2008 at 10:50 pm

    some great resources here!

  4. Mike Smith | September 18th, 2008 at 1:45 am

    Awesome post with some great resources. Definitely a bookmarker/stumbler :)

  5. Tracey Grady | September 18th, 2008 at 5:37 am

    I like creating my own brushes and customising existing ones, so this list will come in handy for giving me new ideas. Thanks, Steven.

  6. Dainis Graveris | September 18th, 2008 at 7:00 am

    Damn, just in the morning tought about this kind of review about how to use brushes! Maybe that’s good because I really got interest to use my brushes better. Anyway - I like the post, because I will really learn from it! :)

  7. Assault | September 18th, 2008 at 10:37 am

    Thanks for posting my two tutorials!! Much more to come from us!

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  11. Vandelay Design | September 18th, 2008 at 5:48 pm

    Thanks for the feedback everyone. I’m glad it’s a useful resource that can help improve your design process.

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  14. NaldzGraphics | September 18th, 2008 at 8:21 pm

    nice list.its very useful.thanks for this steven:)

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    wow, muy buenos tutoriales,
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  19. Thomas | Brush King | September 19th, 2008 at 4:49 am

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    Nice collect, but for me… brushes is not that great if you don’t have the keen eye of a designer… coz you still need to combine it with colors.. and designers have that eye… but anyway this is cool collectu buddy..

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