Personally speaking, I love vintage textures – although we’re living in a high-tech society where everything is shining and glossy, sometimes we need a bit of old, ancient feeling to get a balance and taste the history. Not to mention if you’re working on a design project requiring the vintage touches, you will find those textures and Photoshop brushes extremely useful.

Creating the illusion of water and rain in designs using Photoshop can be a bit really difficult. If the right techniques and textures are not applies the effect may look unrealistic and fake. This article provides a collection of great tutorials and brush collections focused on the most needed water effects like rain, drops, reflection etc. Please drop a comment if you know a good tutorial or brush.

Photoshop enables endless options for image creation, an invaluable tool for designers and digital artists. A great way to create a stylish natural look in website and print design, and in digital painting, is to use natural brushes. There are loads of natural brushes available from fellow designers on Deviant Art and across the Internet; many are free to download and use as long as the designer is credited and linked to. This post brings together 24 of the best natural brushes divided thematically, perfect resources for introducing the flourish of natural elements to your digital design work.

For Illustrator users, high-quality brushes can save time and help to produce impressive results. In this post we’ll feature 27 sets of free brushes to spark your work with Illustrator. For more brushes, see 45 Excellent Sets of Adobe illustrator Brushes and 30 Sets of High-Quality Adobe Illustrator Brushes.

We’re seeing superb lighting effects being used in design and media popping up everywhere nowadays; in print design, web design and even TV commercials – and it’s only getting more popular (good or bad thing?).

You could of course create your own lighting effects – but for those of us that are a little more time restricted, there are hundreds of free brushes out there. This post compiles a whopping collection of over 600 light effect Photoshop brushes!

I love space artworks – mainly because there is alway certain degree of mystery in them. After all, that’s a place far beyond our reach and most of us will never get to experience the real space.

Photoshop, on the other hand, give us the freedom to put our imagination into some sort of “reality”. By using Photoshop, we’re able to transform our thoughts about how space would look into digital artworks. And also we can combine different types of space element into our design and create surreal, fantasy effect with them.

The watercolour effect is becoming increasingly popular within the design community of late, if done properly it can be really effective and you could end up with a great looking design at the end of it.

I have compiled a set of watercolour brushes for Photoshop and Illustrator, Illustrator does come with a set of watercolour brushes but these are different and offer a alternative effect. All of the brushes listed are totally free for you to download and use on your projects.

Floral and Ornate patterns are very popular in the design world, their vintage yet elegant and modern feel makes them perfect to use for so many different projects.

To make your life easier, we’ve collected over 60 brush sets, in total including over 1,000 single brushes! What are you favorites sets? We’d love to know!

As compared to photoshop brushes there are not enough free brushes available for illustrator. It is very hard to find the quality brushes, but i searched the internet for best and quality illustrator brushes and compiled a list.

From time-to-time we publish collections of specific styles of Photoshop brushes. One of our most popular collections features floral brushes and it’s now over a year old. Since the time that post was published many new brush sets have been released and we’ve come across some other good sets that weren’t included in that post. Here we’ll present a follow up with more than 250 brushes from 19 different packs.