14 Tutorials for Creating Photoshop Brushes

The effective use of brushes is an essential skill for anyone who wants to be a skilled Photoshop designer. There are countless brush packs that you can download for free, and other that you can buy, but sometimes you will want to use a brush that doesn’t yet exist. In these situations you may want to make your own brushes.

Whether you want to learn more about creating brushes for your own use or for distribution, the tutorials featured in this post will give you the skills you need.

How to Create a Set of Photoshop Grunge Brushes

Veerle shows us a different approach to creating her grunge brushes. She first experiments on paper and then scans her work and creates the brush from there.

Tutorial for Creating Brushes

Creating Grunge Brushes

Veerle also shows us how to create some nice grunge brushes from a photograph of a rusty, textured surface.

Tutorial for Creating Brushes

How to Make a Photoshop Brush

Jay Hilgert of Bittbox shows us his process for creating brushes. Jay’s brush packs are among the most popular that you’ll find anywhere, so this is a must-read if you want to learn more about making your own.

Tutorial for Creating Brushes

How to Make Photoshop Brushes

This tutorial on deviantART show you the process of creating a brush starting with a photo. The tutorial uses a photo of a flower, but this approach can be used to create an type of brush.

Tutorial for Creating Brushes

How to Create Your Own Brushes

This tutorial from PhotoshopStar also shows the process of creating a brush from a photograph.

Tutorial for Creating Brushes

How to Create and Define Photoshop Brushes

MyPhotoshopBrushes shows the basics of creating brushes, how to create a sample brush from a scanned brushstroke, and also explains how you can save your brushes in a .abr file for easy distribution.

Tutorial for Creating Brushes

Make it Rain with Photoshop Brushes

This tutorial from Digital Arts shows how you can create brushes to add rain to a photo.

Tutorial for Creating Brushes

How to Make Photoshop Brushes

Hyper Gurl has a tutorial for creating a brush from an image. There is also a video version of the tutorial available on the page.

Tutorial for Creating Brushes

Building a Lego Bricks Photoshop Brushes Set

Photoshop Roadmap offers a tutorial that shows you how to create a set of lego brushes from a sample image.

Tutorial for Creating Brushes

How to Make a Brush in Photoshop CS3

This brief tutorial shows the simple process of converting an existing image into a brush. The author uses a graphic created in Illustrator as the starting point.

Tutorial for Creating Brushes

Create Photoshop Brushes for Coffee Stains and Splatters

Andrew Houle of My Ink Blog leads us through the process of create brushes from actual coffee stains and splatters.

Tutorial for Creating Brushes

How to Create Florishes in Photoshop

AiVault shows how to create the flosishes in Photoshop, and then how to turn them into a brush to make them more useful and versatile.

Tutorial for Creating Brushes

Creating Your Own Custom Adobe Photoshop Brushes

Tim from Assualt Blog shows his process for creating brushes from photos, plus how to set them up as a brush set.

Tutorial for Creating Brushes

Creating Your Own Grunge Brushes

This PhotoshopStar tutorial shows how you can create brushes in Photoshop with no image and no scanning. Simply using the standard brushes that come with Photoshop and some texture effects, custom grunge brushes are created.

Tutorial for Creating Brushes

To find some great Photoshop brushes for you use, please see:

0 shares
Stephen Snell is the owner and editor of Vandelay Design, a popular design blog.
  1. Pingback: 14 tutoriales photoshop para crear brushes | frogx.three

  2. Pingback: » Blog Archive » BRUSHES PARA PHOTOSHOP

  3. April 7, 2009

    love the lego brick. great list btw. thank though.

  4. April 7, 2009

    Great post. Thanks a lot !

  5. April 7, 2009

    Some great tuts here, fave is the coffee stains by MyInkBlog

  6. April 7, 2009

    great post , I wonder if we can create the brushes in Illustrator!

  7. nice post thanks for helpful learning..

  8. April 7, 2009

    such skills always comes handy if You are serious designer 🙂 nice roundup as always 🙂

  9. Pingback: links for 2009-04-08 | This Inspires Me

  10. Kevin
    April 9, 2009

    Very nice roundup! I recently found some very nice video tutorials that Brusheezy has tucked away in their footer at http://www.brusheezy.com/videos

  11. Pingback: 14 Tutorials for Creating Photoshop Brushes | DeanWorks

  12. Pingback: Twitties #10

  13. Pingback: Neue Links - Neustart-Magazin

  14. April 18, 2009

    great tutorials, bookmarked!

  15. Pingback: 50+ Promising Collection Of Resources And Inspirations For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In April @ SmashingApps

  16. April 29, 2009

    This is a great tutorial. Thank you for taking the time to make this post!

  17. April 30, 2009

    great collection

  18. Pingback: FreeDownloadSecrets.com » Blog Archive » 50+ Promising Collection Of Resources And Inspirations For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In April

  19. Pingback: Design Tutorials, How-tos, and Resources for Photoshop and Illustrator « Joren Rapini.com Weblog

  20. Pingback: » Design Tutorials, How-tos, and Resources for Photoshop and Illustrator - Massive Link Collection Part #2 | Joren Rapini.com Weblog

  21. Pingback: 14 Tutorials for Creating Photoshop Brushes

  22. August 9, 2010

    great collection

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Interview with Designer and Blogger Henry Jones