Brushes are a main part of every Adobe Photoshop user. They give you the ability to create awesome designs where they’re used in logos or wallpapers. Presenting a collection of 35 of the best free custom photoshop brushes that will surely help you in your upcoming projects.

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!

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.

In this post, I will share with you 25 really cool, high-res abstract style Photoshop brush sets I have in my bookmarks for your next design project. Hope you like them and find them useful :)

Personally I love those abstract style brushset because I found them quite useful when you want to add a bit of finishing touches to spice up the image. Mixing them with colors and filters, you can produce very nice effects for your image.

Using brushes will allow you to create custom elements for your designs, whether they are used in logos, backgrounds or anything else you wish to use them with, one current trend for example is using grunge brushes to dirty up the background and rip up the edges of the page container.

There are literally thousands upon thousands of brushes available for free from a wide variety of places or you can pick up some really high quality paid options too from places such as GoMedia

I have listed 10 resources which have thousands of brushes available to download for free, please read any terms before using in commercial projects