Photoshop Brushes (post them here!)

Michael Knubben

Post them here and I'll update the first post with the link.
Please provide a contactsheet and the version of Photoshop it was created with. Note that these may not be backwards compatible.
Brushes don't need to be entirely your own creation. Mine are about half my own stuff and half brushes from other people's sets, for instance. If anyone objects to having 'your' brushes included in any of these, send me a message and I'll take them out of this post.

I'll start it off:

Mighty Pea:
Brushes
Tools
Preview
Created in: Photoshop CS2

Peter 'peppi' Boehme:
Brushes
Preview
Created in: Don't know, but it loads in CS2

SinisterGFX:
Brushes
Preview
Preview2

Fogman:
Preview
Brushes

Tumerboy:
Brushes

JohnnySix:

#1 Grimetastic Brush Pack Image
#2 Sketchtastic brush pack Image
#3 Scribbletastic brush pack Image
#4 Scrufftastic brush pack Image
#5 Filthtastic brush Pack Image

Justin_Meisse:
Brushes
preview

Brad Myers:
Brushes
Image #1 (Brushes Explained)
Image #2 (Example of Brushes)
Explanation


External Brushes
- http://creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/articles/listarticle.jsp?type=downloads
- http://creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/common/search/NewSearch.jsp?siteid=3&keywords=nagel+photoshop+brushes&Search=Search&articleType=All&sites=3&matchFor=All&searchDepth=1500&sortBy=Relevance&numPerPage=20 (link to previous brushes, listed in a clearer way)
http://www.imaginefx.com/02287754332606896693/the-custom-brush-guide-skin-and-hair.html
http://adonihs.deviantart.com/art/My-Brush-Pack-118954791
http://ramonmirandavisualart.blogspot.com/2010/04/photoshop-artistic-oils-brushkit.html
Videos of the RamonMiranda set:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD_JIcx_9UU[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLEhW6aG99w[/ame]


Utilities

http://abrviewer.sourceforge.net/
http://www.easyelements.com/abrview.html
http://brushviewer.sourceforge.net/ (Mac)

LEViATHAN

http://www.brusheezy.com/

Michael Knubben

Stupid Name, idiotic owner, bad brushes
I once had a discussion with that guy, who could not get it in his head that a stamp is not the same as a brush. I emailed him to ask for a category for brushes meant for painting with, not stamping.
Also, I'm asking for polycounters to post their brushes, not for people to link to websites.
The brushes we'd post would most likely be custom-made for texture-creation and maybe some concept-painting, so that'd be pretty interesting to share.

Justin Meisse

could we have a screenshot of the brushes as well?
I can whip up some Celtic pattern brushes if there's demand

Michael Knubben

Good idea Justin. I had one of an older version, but I haven't had time to do a new one. Will do one in a bit.
edit: done!

Ged

Ive still got your old brushes somewhere pea theyre good, Ive managed to get my personal favorite brush collection down to about 10 brushes but they come from a variety of sources so I dont know if its ok to post them online without giving credit to the artists who gave them away on their sites(imaginefx,barontieri etc)

peppi

Ah cool topic, and good timing too.. I posted these on ca a few days ago.

Feel free to redistribute/modify them




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EarthQuake

THIS POST HAS BEEN REPORTED, UR ALL GONNA BE BANNED.

You can thank Michael for this.

Mark Dygert

You guys aren't PhotoShop... I don't see any flower or film grain stamps in any of those brushes! I'm ashamed to even have visited this thread. These are totally useless, I mean look at most of them, what are you guys? Artists? Those look like actual brushes someone can use? Where are the thousands of useless stamp brushes!?


Cool brushes guys, thanks for sharing. When I get home later I'll clean up a set I've made while working on my TF2 map. I'll also see if some of the other people I work with want to contribute.

Michael Knubben

Vig: that'd be cool. Get a set together with your colleageus, it'll be interesting to see.

AshleyTayles

Thanks Peppi.

Spinks

thanks pea, been using your old set since forever. gonna try out peppis too for sure.

Microneezia

Mr. Pea it looks like your brush links in the first post are corrupt?

robioto

Pea, your dropbox is broken

Oneil

thank you for sharing Guys :poly108:

Ged

sweet brushes guys, to be honest lately I use Paint tool sai more than photoshop to actually paint and in photoshop I found alot of the brushes I use are mostly from this set
http://www.imaginefx.com/02287754332606896693/the-custom-brush-guide-skin-and-hair.html

Neox

I use smudge with scattering on, thats awesome, not like the stupid blurbrush that can't really blur

Michael Knubben

Seems to work here? It might just have been down for a bit. Let me know if it happens again and I'll try to sort out alternative hosting.

And yes, how useless is the blur-brush? I'm surprised that's still in there, as I've never found it to be practical.

Kawe

You swapped the links on Peppi's brushes I was rather confused trying to preview. heh.

thanks for the uploads!

sinistergfx

a better preview of the last 2 splatter brushes:


download

Neox

MightyPea wrote: »

And yes, how useless is the blur-brush? I'm surprised that's still in there, as I've never found it to be practical.

a hundred percent of the blur brush is like 1 or 2 percent of the scattersmudge, i don't know maybe it worked back when you had to use smaller filesizes

robioto

It's back up Pea, thanks to you and to everyone else for sharing these.


Here's a link to Creative Mac which hosts brush downloads from Dave Nagel. Some of the brushes are meh, but some are very interesting. These have been around quite a while so I'm sure you have all got them but just in case here are some links.

The first is to the general downloads area
http://creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/articles/listarticle.jsp?type=downloads

The second link is to a search I did on the site in an attempt to "collect" the brushes so they would be somewhat easier to download. Generally I think this site is terribly designed but some of these brushes are pretty cool, especially the ones for hair and skin textures so hopefully the brushes are worth the pain in your ass you will feel as you browse this fucker (maybe I'm being harsh but this site makes me want to beat baby seals).

http://creativemac.digitalmedianet.com/common/search/NewSearch.jsp?siteid=3&keywords=nagel+photoshop+brushes&Search=Search&articleType=All&sites=3&matchFor=All&searchDepth=1500&sortBy=Relevance&numPerPage=20

MoP

Nice stuff guys, I like your dirt/speckle brushes sinistergfx.
All my custom brushes are at work, I'll see if I can dig a few of the more useful ones up. I have some silly footprints and tank treads brushes left over from when I was doing Megatextures on ETQW, dunno how useful they'd be to most people...

Peppi: Your second one down in the right-hand column looks nearly identical to one of my brushes I use for painting a lot :O

peppi

Yup it's ripped straight off one of the stock PS brushes, Per said it'd be ok

EarthQuake

Per is the last person anyone should take advice from.

Nauh

i love you Neox. that scattersmudge is amazing. its exactly wht i've been looking for for ages.

Neox

f or m?

Maks

great stuff for concepts
thanks for sharing

fogmann

Here are some of my brushes to the pile:



→Download←

Michael Knubben

Lincqk: Be sure to try turning off spacing, as well. It makes the smudge brush much more responsive, even with larger brush-sizes and images, as well as giving it a slightly different feel. Much easier to get textural effects that way, rather than just making stuff blurring in a straightforward way
There are a few examples of how I use the smudge-brush in my tool-presets, you could check those out.

Nauh

neox: m.

thanks mightypea all this is really useful.

Ged

just found this today and thought it may be worth adding to the list

http://adonihs.deviantart.com/art/My-Brush-Pack-118954791

jeremy price

Barontieri has some great ones available on his site but it seems to have gotten a facelift and aren't there anymore.

Jet_Pilot

I've really been looking for some nice scratch brushes and also from where paint has been chipped and warn away from metal. like this

http://www.game-artist.net/spotlight/Part2_Sratches.jpg

Any recomendations

glib

Jet_Pilot: I was just about to post that.

I've tried to duplicate that brush that he has a white-on-black sample of in the top-right so many times. I've gotten some other useful brushes, but nothing that comes close to that one. I'd love to see how someone else would take a crack at making that (not just the sample image, but brush settings too).

Ged

hey Jet_Pilot and glib have you tried all the brushes here? I seem to have aquired in my brushes a scratch brush a bit like that one and I thought I got it here.

Tumerboy

here's my brushes, which include many stolen from many people here, and some of which are similar to Stephan's scratch brushes. Just play around with some at various sizes:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/102956/Tumerbrushes.abr

Michael Knubben

Tumerboy, I'm getting a 404 on those. Is it just dropbox, or are those gone?

And thanks, Lampoly. Those might be nice ways to preview sets of brushes. The second one can export the brush-shape too, I seem to recall.

Tumerboy

huh, dunno what happened, should be fixed, try again:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/102956/Tumerbrushes.abr

Michael Knubben

Alright,that works. Got an image to go with that?

Tumerboy

sure. . .

Michael Knubben

Playing around with scattering on a smudge-brush. Very nice to work with, I think!

edit: which Neox already suggested in here, as it turns out! Oops.

JohnnySix

Sorry for month old bump - was reading Frozan's thread and saw this linked - some great sets in here, inspired me to upload my own.

One day I'd love to have a tablet that supports pen angle also - as I'm sure even better results could be achieved with this thrown into the brush preset also!


Download :

Grimetastic_Brush_Pack_by_JohnnySix.zip

Preview :

rahul_shrimali

Thanks you All

Michael Knubben

Johhnysix: thanks for adding that one, I'll put it up in the first post as well.

JohnnySix

MightyPea wrote: »

Johhnysix: thanks for adding that one, I'll put it up in the first post as well.

No probs - probably one of the most underused but probably coolest things in photoshop.

BTW - Fogs brush links have been updated, also might be worth noting (for paupers like me on CS3 still) that his are CS4 .




DL link http://fogmann.com/downloads/brushes/bn_omasplates_psBrushes.zip

JohnnySix

I'm bumping in the hope that maybe Gauss will spot this and share his awesome brushes or techniques.


Played around tonight with trying out some sketch brushes - again works best with a tablet for finess, think the pencil cross-hatching one came out quite nice, and got a half-decent paint stipple effect going on.


Download : http://www.deviantart.com/download/137465783/Sketchtastic_brush_pack_by_JohnnySix.zip

D4V1DC

Best thread ever! Some that I use that I have obtained years ago...


Vailias old school brushes!

Per128's Brushes old school!

If you all want them taken down let me know, just wanted to share some...

JohnnySix

Any chance of Polycount hosting these as a bundled PolyCount member mega-pack or something, only I just followed $!nz's link and almost ordered me a Russian bride. :poly122:

JohnnySix

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JohnnySix

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