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Free Photoshop Brushes for High-Res Designs: Electrosketch

Jason Gaylor — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:39:56 +0000

Electrosketch is a sketchy mess of organic lines and circles with some grungy, abstract elements weaved in and out of wiry configurations and linear tracks; great for both scrapbookers and designers. Use these Photoshop Brushes to add some flair to that next poster design or brochure layout. No limit to what you could do with this labyrinthine of twisted, tangled, zigzagging brushes. Let your imagination run wild (very wild) with these high resolution, royalty-free Photoshop Brushes. Enjoy!

Download Free Photoshop Brushes: Electrosketch

Free High-Res Photoshop Brushes: Shabby Shapes

Jason Gaylor — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:56:51 +0000

A Free High-Resolution Photoshop brush set of grungy, dirty simple shapes. This contains several basic shapes that can be combined to create more complicated shapes for borders, backgrounds and more. Each shape is big and bold; created to resemble a raised surface that has been inked and then pressed into a sheet of paper like an old trashy letterpress.

These are big. Many of the brushes are around 2500 pixels. Suitable for print projects and web projects.

This set is royalty-free, so you can use it in your products and designs both for personal use and commercial work. Yup, we’re awesome like that. Enjoy!

Download Free High-Resolution Photoshop Brushes: Shabby Shapes

Free High-Resolution Photoshop Brushes: Mellow Mess

Jason Gaylor — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:27:17 +0000

This is a Free, High-Resolution Photoshop Brush set that is understated and distressed. Worn yet restrained. Realistic and detailed. These subdued textures are meant for subtle additions to a design. Perfect for adding that aged look to a photograph, greeting card or scrapbook page. Full of scratches, smudges, diagonal lines, horizontal lines, subtle patterns and a whole lot of dignified, dirty, timeworn forms.

These are big. Many of the brushes are around 2500 pixels. Suitable for print projects and web projects.

This set is royalty-free, so you can use it in your products and designs both for personal use and commercial work; with no strings attached.

Download Free High-Resolution Photoshop Brushes: Mellow Mess

Free Photoshop Brushes Deal Extended

Jason Gaylor — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:56:27 +0000

The Free Photoshop Brush promotion is extended for two more weeks. We had a really successful launch and a such a great response to the promotion we’ve decided to keep this deal going longer. If you’re hearing about this for the first time, we are are giving away a Photoshop brush bundle of 66 brushes valued at $40. Get the Free Photoshop Brush Bundle Vol 1 here. It’s free until time runs out.

It would help us a lot if you can get the word out about this amazing deal. Here’s a couple of tweets you can use to make things easier. Or you can tweak them however you like.

“Free brush bundle from @designfruit ($40 value) time is running out. Please RT. http://bit.ly/9wGGn”

“@designfruit extended the Free brush bundle ($40 value) for 2 more weeks. Please RT. http://bit.ly/9wGGn”

Thank you customers, fans, friends and family for all your support on a great launch.

Royalty-Free Illustrator Vector Swatch Patterns

Jason Gaylor — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:36:55 +0000

This is a free set of eight Adobe Illustrator Swatch Patterns. These are seamless vector patterns that can be used to fill objects such as shapes, letters and words. Rather than using a solid color for a typeface, fill it with a swatch pattern. Drag these from the swatches panel to the canvas; change the colors. Drag them back to the swatches panel to create new swatches using different colors.

These are compatible with Illustrator CS and above.

Watch the 30 second video about using the swatches in Illustrator.

Download the Illustrator Swatch Patterns

Worn Photoshop Brushes For High Resolution [Part III]

Jason Gaylor — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 08:22:03 +0000

If you are new to the brushes that I make, you should know that they are mainly for working with materials meant for print. You can use them for Web stuff as well, but you might need to size them down. Most of the brushes are around 1800 pixels wide. Again, I created a few images so you can see them in context.

Important Information

Adobe Photoshop CS, CS2 or higher on OSX or Windows. However, I have divided the brushes into layers to support Photoshop 7 and previous versions, so now everyone can enjoy.

Download Instructions

1. Download the brushes here (23.1 MB)
2. Select the paint brush in the Photoshop tools.
3. From the brushes palate choose “Load brushes…”
4. Navigate to your brand new brushes and happy times begin.

Layers

I’ve had a lot of requests for these brushes to be compatible with Photoshop 7 and previous versions. To save time, I’ve divided each design into a photoshop layer. You get one file with several designs, each on it’s own layer. If you’d like to convert these into brushes, it’s easy. Simply turn on one of the layers and go to edit>define brushes. After this, your brush will appear in the brushes palate.

1. Download the layers file here [Part III] (31 MB)

Brush Usage Rights
Please ask for permission for any use of this brush set and/or vector set that is not covered in the Terms Of Use. You may NOT use these brushes on designs for sale on stock photography sites!

Worn Photoshop Brushes For High Resolution [Part II]

Jason Gaylor — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 18:21:58 +0000

I couldn’t resist. I had so much fun making the first round of brushes I stayed up last night making these. Again these are quite large brushes, so they are mainly for working with materials meant for print. You can use them for Web stuff as well, but you might need to size them down. Most of the brushes are around 1800 pixels wide.

Oh, and I also couldn’t resist using them. So I created a few images so you can see them in context.

Select Brush Samples (not actual size)

Important Information

Adobe Photoshop CS, CS2 or higher on OSX or Windows. However, I have divided the brushes into layers to support Photoshop 7 and previous versions, so now everyone can enjoy.

Download Instructions

Layers

1. Download the layers file here [Part II] (33 MB)

Worn Photoshop Brushes For High Resolution [Part I]

Jason Gaylor — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 17:43:17 +0000

I recently had a request for some worn, tattered, distressed Photoshop brushes for working with high resolution. Most of what I found and used in the past was created for Web design. A brush designed at 4oo pixels wide could be “stamped” on a 800 x 600 Web site and take up half of the distance across. When dealing with print, 400 pixels doesn’t go very far when you’re talking about a resolution of 300 dpi. That same brush would show up a bit larger than one inch wide when printed. Though the brush size can be adjusted up to 2500 pixels, if it wasn’t designed at that size it’s going to look quite poor when enlarged.

I’ve designed some brushes that sit right around the 1800 pixel range. That’s going to give you about a six inch brush size when dealing with the standard print resolution of 300 dpi.

If you have no idea what I’m talking about I’ve included an example. Once these brushes are loaded into the brush palate in Photoshop you can begin using them on your own images. Most commonly I select either the eraser tool or the paintbrush tool then I choose a brush. Simply line up the brush on your image and click the mouse once. You get instantaneous transformation. Experiment with layering and opacity settings to get desired effect.

Original Photo

Behold The Aftermath

Important Information

Adobe Photoshop CS, CS2 or higher on OSX or Windows. However, I have divided the brushes into layers to support Photoshop 7 and previous versions, so now everyone can enjoy.

Download Instructions

Layers

Brush Usage Rights
Every design on the site, previously requiring purchase of an additional commercial license for use, is now available royalty-free.