10 great websites to download Free Photoshop Brushes

Every designer has its own secret collection of Photoshop Brushes. They are meant to be like real brushes, making it possible for you to draw with them. But, with the help of technology, they have become much more than that!

Why should you use Free Photoshop Brushes?

It is so easy to create brushes from real images, that they became much more than just regular paint or calligraphic brushes, they are whole images that can be applied to your current artwork in Photoshop. They enhance your art – making it possible for you to add awesome graphic elements to your image – and, of course, save you a lot of time.

Today you can find every kind of Free Photoshop brushes you need. There are options that start with more abstract cloud or naturepeople silhouettes or famous world landmark brushes brushes and go up to more detailed . Whatever you need, you can find a great brush that replicates it.

But, finding great brush sources is not as easy as it seems. You have many websites, but only a few are well organized and have easy to find brushes. That is what we will try to bring you with this post.

PS – do you guys have trouble previewing your brushes? Just install this.

1. Brusheezy

Founded in 2006 by the same creators of Vecteezy, this is one of the best organized brush websites around. Unlike most of the other websites, their search works great and makes it very easy to find the brushes you need.

2. DeviantArt

Yes, DeviantArt is a very predictable and obvious site for this list! We agree and don’t always like how they organize their content, but it is an incontestable source for Photoshop Brushes. Using their search with the “%searchterm” + “brush” you will be able to find everything you want (we’ve even found dinosaur brushes!)

3. BrushKing.eu

An awesome layout and a huge collection of 7000+ Photoshop brushes is what you get when you go to BrushKing.eu. Their content is greatly organized in categories but can also be easily filtered through categories.

4. PSBrushes

The guys at PSBrushes don’t offer you a nice search mechanism, but their website is organized in categories, which help you find the brushes you need quickly.

5. Free Brushes

FreeBrushes is a brush resource website that offers more than 600 high quality brush sets for Photoshop. This great selection is organized per category and/or software (PS, Gimp or Paint Shop Pro).

6. QBrushes.net

QBrushes is a great source for differentiated brushes such as the volcano brush or vintage postcard brushes.

7. FBrushes

Fbrushes is a well designed and organized Photoshop brushes resource. The website was founded in 2008 in already offers 6000+ brushes that you can download an use. But, as usual, don’t forget to check the license for any commercial work.

8. 123FreeBrushes

This websites Photoshop Brushes Catalog size is a little bigger than 1000 brushes and finding what you want isn’t the easiest task, but it’s worth a look at what they have to offer.

9. MyPhotoshopBrushes

This “amateurish looking” website has a good selection of Photoshop Brushes from artists from all around the world.

10. GetBrushes

GetBrushes was founded by Aneley and Ivan back in 2006 as a little experiment in putting some order into the world of Photoshop resources. The selection is not too big, but the quality of most of the brushes is quite stunning.

A little more about jwaldeck

Jan (which is more like "yawn" than "Jenn") has German citizenship (American too), was born in Colombia and raised in São Paulo, Brazil - where he spent most of his life. Jan has been a nerd forever. He strives for pixel perfect designs, great user interfaces & clean code, loves tennis and is currently exploring new pursuits such as blogging, photography and skiing.

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