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:
- 35 Photoshop Tutorials for Designing Your Own Posters
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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:
September 17th, 2008
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!
September 17th, 2008
Sorry Brian. I’ve had that happen to me before and it kind of sucks.
September 17th, 2008
some great resources here!
September 18th, 2008
Awesome post with some great resources. Definitely a bookmarker/stumbler
September 18th, 2008
I like creating my own brushes and customising existing ones, so this list will come in handy for giving me new ideas. Thanks, Steven.
September 18th, 2008
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!
September 18th, 2008
Thanks for posting my two tutorials!! Much more to come from us!
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Thanks for the feedback everyone. I’m glad it’s a useful resource that can help improve your design process.
September 18th, 2008
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The use of Georgia/serif fonts here doesn’t look as good as the sans-serifs you used earlier. You could use sans-serif at least for the sidebars.
Additionally the attribution to Cutline in the footer is barely visible on the off-white background.
June 14th, 2009
Hi Shivanand,
I have been meaning to fix the text color in the footer and just hadn’t gotten around to it. It’s fixed now. As far as the font is concerned, it’s not Georgia, it is Times New Roman. I got sick of looking at Arial so I decided to try something different. Will probably go back to Arial at some point. I don’t think it makes sense to use a serif on body copy and a sans serif in the sidebar. They should be consistent in my opinion. Using a one for headings and the other for body copy makes more sense to me.
June 14th, 2009
Of course. I just find that serifs look more acceptable on white backgrounds which gives a newspaper like feel. For a site as polished as yours… as you said it, a sans-serif font will look better. Thanks for fixing the footer attribution.
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