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Freebie:25 Original And FREE Abstract Smoke Brushes

Dainis Graveris — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:00:32 +0000

This brushes pack contains 25 high quality photoshop brushes made with Photoshop CS4. The size of the brushes is aprox. 1200 pixels and the quality is the best you can get:

- sharp edges
- smooth gradients.

This brushes are very useful for making wallpaper backgrounds, like the famous Vista wallpaper, or web headers, even on photo manipulations as fake smoke. Free for personal and commercial use. Enjoy!

Below you can see few examples of brushes just to show you shape and appearance! As you can see possibilities are endless and you can really widely use these brushes anywhere you want!

These brushes are allowed to be used for personal and commercial use, but they cannot be redistributed elsewhere! If you use these brushes it would be nice to link back to this original site, but it’s not compulsory task – maybe just a nice way to show appreciation to author’s hard work.

Enjoy, here is download link !

About Author

Hi, my name Andrei, I’m 22 and I’m a self taught graphic artist. Statarted working with graphics on 2007. Now I write photoshop tutorials on my website about all the techniques I know.I provide brushes and also stock images and other resources. I hope you like my brushes. You can download more resources on my website www.psdbox.com.

40+ Awesome Grunge Style Photoshop Brush Packs

Siva Kumar — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:00:22 +0000

Grunge style has become a trend in design community so here is the ultimate collection of really nice and high quality grunge brushes. I am really hoping these brushes will help in Your work flow, as these do while I am designing. So play with them and bring your creativity to design community.

1.Abstract paint brush pack

Abstract paint pack contains 8 brushes up to 2500px. Brushes are compatible with PS7 and up.

2.3D abstract paint

This pack contains 27 brushes ( up to 2500px ) compatible with PS7 and up!

3.Splatter mania brushes

These 27 splatter mania brushes are free for personal use (Non-commercial).Will work with PS7 and versions up.

4.Chalk brushes

These brushes set includes chalk brushes in 3 sizes, blackboard brush and eraser brush…For photoshop CS.

5.Coffee happens reloaded

Coffee happens reloaded pack contains 15 big brushes up to 2500px.And it’s compatible with PS 7 and upper versions.

6.Crack brushes

Eight free set of crack brushes.Which are perfect for grunge designs and old style designs. You could even get creative with these cracks and turn them into design elements such as lightning with some Photoshop adjustments.These guidelines are by designer.

7.Texturitus brushes

A brush pack with a variety of different textures ranging from cotton to toilet paper to leather, quite random. Includes high-resolution, regular resolution and 3 random brushes which make even more cool textures. 37 brushes for personal use.

8.Fractalized grunge brushes

Combo pack of 5 high-resolution vintage fractalized grunge textures and a fractalized grunge Photoshop brush set.Come in resolutions of 2000 * 1500 pixels.

9.Grunge splatter brushes

Free set of 20 grunge splatter brushes for Photoshop. They were made from watercolor brush splatter, photographed, and then edited in Photoshop to get the effect of splatter paint brushes. As evident in this post image, you can also use them as blood splatter brushes (even though Halloween is already over).The grunge splatter brushes range in size (up to 537 pixels),Available for personal and commercial use, no attribution required.

10.Watercolor splatters

It’s a collection 250 watercolor grungy splatter brushes.

11.Fuzzies brushes

Made for PS7 with 7 fuzzy brushes. Hair-like texture. No commercial use without a license.

12.Grunge brushes

Eight grunge brushes for PS7 and CS versions of Photoshop. can be used for anything, commercial or noncommercial.

13.Halftone brushes

Halftone 2 pack contains 12 brushes. It’s compatible with PS7 and upper versions.

14.Grunge browny brushes

Grunge Brush is collection of 8 Grunge effect. made in PS-CS3.Free for personal and commercial use.

15.Grunge paint brushes

Large set of grunge paint brushes made in PS 7. You can use it for commercial use too.

16.Grunge alphabet

Fully grunge alphabet brushes.

17.Grunge brushes by keren

58 Brushes in it made with ps7, the smallest brush size is 296 px and the biggest brush size is 598 px.It was really exhausting to make them.

18.Just another grunge from Keren

30 brushes in this set. Made in PS7

19.13 Grunge brushes

These brushes were made in photoshop CS4 and may not be compatible with earlier versions. They are high resolutions. Free for commercial use.

20.Grunge brush set

40 high resolution grunge brushes. These items have been created in Photoshop CS3 starting from grunge and concrete textures. You can use them to dirty your works or to create horror styled images.

21.Grungeness brush

These brushes are for PS 7.

22.Graphactory grunge set

It’s fresh, useful, and free. grab it and smash some dirt and scratches onto your creations. It’s fun.

23.Grungestract brushes

24.Hightech reloaded

Please send your request to designer if you want to use this for your commercial work.It’s compatible with PS7 and done using coreldraw.

25.Hot fuzz dynamic brushes

26.New set of grunge brushes

Includes 53 grunge brushes for photoshop 7 version.

27.Paint borders

28.Painted flowers

Free set of natively painted flowers for that folksy look. 28 in the set, created in Photoshop CS. For personal use only, or If you’d like to use them commercially you have to buy a license.

29.Part liquid grunge brushes

There is only 6 brushes and probably two have a liquefy effect.

30.Quadgrunged

Quadgrunged pack contains 10 grungy abstract brushes compatible with PS 7 and up!. For commercial use please give your request to designer.

31.Scratchy grunge

Collection of 29 brushes Made in CS2.please check out the rules for you use them.

32.Smokey fire brushes

Brand new pack called SMOKEY – fire brushes for Photoshop. This HUGE pack contains 50 brushes compatible with PS 7 and up.

33.Soft grunge brushes

34.Spray paint brushes

Brushes made with Paint Spray. Brush sizes range from 887px – 1195px.Hope everyone like this grunge type spray.

35.Starry grunge

Starry Grunge set for Photoshop 7 and higher versions. This set has 10 brushes, some grunge like, others more blood like. It is set out to create an abstract set, but it turns out it’s more grungy.

36.Starry grunge

36 brushes,sizes 371-1017 pixels, For Ps7 users.

37.Stylish grunge

Brand new abstract pack – stylish grunge. 18 (BIG!) brushes for Photoshop 7 and newer versions. Great for smudge tools and eraser, pretty nice effects.

38.Valley of the dry bones3

Brushes 10,Resolution: Mid resolution (arround 1500 px), For all Photoshop CS Grungy and rusty look .Terms of use: Free (everything).

39.Watercolor reloaded

Some fresh brushes called WaterColor Reloaded. This HUGE pack contains 83 (resolution about 700 – 1200px) brushes compatible with PS 7 and higher.

40.Wg splatter -1

A splatter set, both brushes and vectors, that can be used to give a touch of grunge to your works. The set contains 15 pieces. All brushes are high-resolution (around 2500×2500 px). The set is free for both personal and commercial use. Attribution is not required. Distribution is prohibited without written permission.

41.Wg splatter -2

second volume of watercolor brushes series. This set contains 30 high-resolution brushes (around 1500px). Use them for any work such as posters, business cards, site design and more. Since edges are the interesting part of these items, I recommend to use the sharpen edges Photoshop filter when working with these brushes.

70 Hand Drawing Style Resources, Brushes, Textures,Icons And Tutorials

Dainis Graveris — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:51:33 +0000

As promised I finally finish my hand drawing related article series with this one. I categorized all resources so You can more easier navigate through. Here You can find the best resources You need to create hand-drawing style designs, artworks or websites. There are wood, cork and leather textures, various office brushes, photos, templates, icons and even few tutorials at the end of the article as final reference. And I even didn’t mention hand-drawn doodles, fuzzy lines, sketches and many high-quality paper backgrounds, notes, pins – just look through and take what You need!

Various office supplies, tools, notes, brushes, stock photos

1. Office Photoshop brushes Version 2 by 9mmbmf

2. Drawing pins brushes by shadymedusa-stock

3. Office Stuff Brushes by redheadstock

4. Price sticker brushes by chokingonstatic

5. Office tools Photoshop brushes by xenomorphaka

6. 13 Various office tool Photoshop brushes by ponker

7. Office Photoshop brushes by purple-quartz-brush

8. 16 Office supply Photoshop brushes by shoe-fly

9. High resolution office stock photos by masseva

10. Morning coffee Photoshop brushes by photoshoprangerstock

11. Vector notes and pins by masseva

Sketched, hand-drawn Icon set roundup

Freehand Icons – $16

12. Sketched Up Iconset by addictedtocoffee.de

13. Handycons

Handycons is a free, hand drawn social media icon set that contains 12 icons. Package contains icons for del.icio.us, Digg, Mixx, DesignBump, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Developer Zone, DesignFloat, Technorati, Twitter and RSS feed & Email icon, of course. All icons are available in four sizes: 16×16, 24×24, 32×32 and 48×48 pixels.

14. Notebook Paper Image Files by kittenbella

15. Free Hand Drawn Doodle Icon Set for Bloggers

16. Red Little Shoes Icon set by raindropmemory

17. Natsu handdrawn icon set by raindropmemory

18. Skitchy sketchy icons by overtone

19. Hand drawn icons by superlegoman

20. Kreski lines handdrawn icons by azazel100

Relevant: Watercolor Icons for the Web – Black & White – $9 200+ icons!

Hand-drawn vectors, doodles, fuzzy lines, sketches

21. 120+ Free Hand-drawn Vector Arrows

22. Doodle Photoshop Brushes by chokingonstatic

23. Arrow Doodle Photoshop brushes by chokingonstatic

24. Doodle Photoshop brushes by narcissus

25. Dotted doodle Photoshop brushes by chokingonstatic

26. Creative doodle brushes

27. Drawn object brushes

28. Hand drawn floral patterns

29. 15 drawn flower brushes by domino-88

Note papers, backgrounds, textures, old papers, paper templates

30. Old Photo paper image set by libelinha77

31. Note paper background

32. 10 Paper office stock textures by sanami276

33. Old paper background

34. Old paper pack by ayelie-stock

35. Old book texture by temabinastock

36. Old wrinkled paper texture

37. 15 Photoshop paper shapes by gojol23

38. Note Book Texture by annfrost-stock

39. Note Paper brushes by luminicity

40. Three paper notes by wklize

41. Really old paper texture

42. 9 big notebook textures by yunyunsarang

43. 19 big notebook textures by yunyunsarang

44. More paper textures

45. Natural Paper Texture Pack by cloaks

46. High resolution paper texture by spiteful-pie-stock

47. Old paper stock by arpadstock

48. Songs texture

*Updated

Also I found very good free high resolution plain and grunge paper textures article from fudgegraphics, thought might be useful.

Wood textures, wallpapers, backgrounds

49. Free Wood Journal+Gallery CSS Pack by bobbyperux

50. Wood texture by gnrbishop

51. Dark wood by zygat3r

52. Dark wood texture pack by cloaks

53. 45 wood textures by jammurch

54. 9 seamless wood patterns by silver-

55. 2 Large wood textures by nureen-restock

56. 90 High resolution wood texture collection

57. The Teak wood wallpaper/texture by iamfreeman

58. Wood wallpaper/texture by oliuss

59. Wood wallpaper – Refreshed by oliuss

60. Darker wood wallpaper/texture by paulensane

Cork textures and backgrounds

61. Cork board PSD template by sedart

62. Texture Cork board by von-chan

63. Corkboard Wood Cork Composite by enchantedgal-stock

64. Cork Board Stock by rainydoll-stock

Leather texture

65. Leather black texture by jaqx-textures

Hand Drawing Style related tutorials

66. Pin board tutorial by photoshop-tutorials

Learn how to create pinboard, notes, pins, polaroids and paperscraps.

67. How to create old sticker – Tutorial by tom1988

68. Hand drawn design tutorial by WebDesignerWall

69. Design Watercolor Effect Menu Tutorial – Create + Code

70. Tutorial how to create hand-drawn type website in Photoshop

As always feel free to add any more related articles, resources to make even better list!

Also You can look over this article I created before with free PSD files – sticky notes, papers to use in Your hand-drawn site designs.

45+ Free Design Template And PSD Files

48 Snow, Ice, Snowflake and Christmas Brushes

Dainis Graveris — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:12:48 +0000

Soon the Christmas time will come, and winter related designs will become more and more popular – I am hoping these brushes will help You to create all those winter season works. There are pine, ice, snowflake, snow and many different Christmas brushes for every taste in this list.
Also these brushes are great inspiration to remind You the most popular Christmas symbols.

Put these brushes in good use or just bookmark them for later use! Remember soon these brushes will become handy!

Feel free to share some of the favorite Christmas brushes you use, will be appreciated!

30 Beautiful Illustrator Brush and Symbol Collection

Dainis Graveris — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:14:09 +0000

Illustrator brushes are always underestimated and AI brushes are a lot less around than Photoshop brushes, but I looked all over the web to search for the best brushes, I could find. Also note, in Adobe homepage You must register in order to download brushes, but I think it’s really worth it and for the most cases read description to use brushes correctly. So here You have 30 beautiful Illustrator brushes for daily use! And I am really hoping these brushes will help in Your workflow, as these do and did in mine. Cheers!

If You know more great sources, where to find beautiful brushes, please share with us! Thanks!

33 Beautiful Border And Corner Brush Sets

Dainis Graveris — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:01:12 +0000

Nice brush always comes handy in Your workflow and if You have ready brushes to choose from, it’s even better. So for now I created a huge list of corner and border brushes to use them in Your designs, posters or graphics.

Each brush actually is for one corner, so just flip them in Your brush properties ( F5 to bring up brush options panel).

There are more than 400+ brushes out here, so I think You have a little list now to choose from!

 
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Feel free to suggest your corner and border brush set in the comments below!

42 Free Nature And Floral Photoshop Brush Sets

Dainis Graveris — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:19:10 +0000

I really enjoy natural, floral brushes – something that always comes handy while creating some new web designs, posters or everything else related. In the list you will find different Photoshop brushes for every taste - really inspiriting too!

I have a bunch of different brushes downloaded on my computer, but I wanted to see the best of them just in the one place.

There are more than 500+ brushes out here, so I think You have a little list now to choose from!

If You now some more great nature, floral, flourish etc. brushes, be kind and share with us all and I’ll add them on this list!