Top 14 Watercolor Photoshop Brushes
The use of watercolor effect remains to be a hot trend in web design. Designers use either watercolor textures or watercolor Photoshop brushes to create depth and a more artistic look and feel to their site. I also personally like this effect because it is not too distracting and loud and a bit easy to pull off.
To help you come up with watercolor effects in your designs, here is a very exhaustive list of quality but free watercolor brushes.
Interested also in watercolor textures? Read my previous post about Watercolor Textures.
Photoshop Brushes 01 – Hi-Res Watercolor Photoshop Brushes
Author: Bittbox
Description: This set contains 18 high-resolution free Photoshop brushes. The smallest brush in this set is 1989 while the largest is 2500 pixels. This set was created using Photoshop CS2. You have the option to download the brushes in CS1 or CS3 versions.
Terms of Use: Free for commercial and non-commercial use.
Photoshop Brushes 02 – Hi-Res Watercolor Photoshop Brushes – Set II
Author: Bittbox
Description: This second set of free Photoshop brushes brushes from Bittbox feature more complex brush strokes than the previous set and were painted on a higher quality paper using watercolors. All of the 20 brushes in this set have resolution of 2500 pixels and were created using Photoshop CS2. You have the option to download the brushes in CS1 or CS3 versions. If you don’t use these versions of Photoshop or not at all a Photoshop user, you also have the option to download the image pack in PNG format.
Terms of Use: Free for commercial and non-commercial use.
Photoshop Brushes 03 – Watercolour Brushes Set 1
Author: Fudge Graphics
Description: This pack consists 26 high resolution free Photoshop brushes. Resolution of the watercolor brushes are between 1480 pixels to 2500 pixels. Total file size approximately 50 MB.
Terms of Use: Free for commercial and non-commercial use.
Photoshop Brushes 04 – Watercolour Brushes Set 1
Author: Fudge Graphics
Description: This is the second set of high-resolution free Photoshop brushes from Fudge Graphics and consists 25 brushes. Resolution of the brushes are between 1500 pixels to 2500 pixels. Total file size approximately 42 MB.
Terms of Use: Free for commercial and non-commercial use.
Photoshop Brushes 05 – Watercolor Reloaded
Author: Env1ro
Description: This huge pack of of free Photoshop brushes contains 83 watercolor brushes at resolution of about 700 – 1200 pixels. The brushes are compatible with Photoshop 7 and CS+.
Terms of Use: Free for personal use only. If you wish to use these brushes for commercial brushes, contact the author first.
Photoshop Brushes 06 – Watercolor Photoshop Brushes
Author: Q-brushes
Description: This is a set of 15 watercolor free Photoshop brushes, which are all high resolution at around 2500 pixels by 2500 pixels created exclusively for PSDtuts.com. That means, you need to become a member first before you can download these fabulous brushes. Sorry about that. If you don’t want to take the hassle of registering, then you can always download the other brushes in this list that do not require membership.
Terms of Use: Free
Photoshop Brushes 07 – Acrylic Photoshop Brushes
Author: The Shoreways
Description: This pack consists 25 high-resolution free Photoshop brushes that you can use for free, both commercial and personal. The size of the brushes range from around 2000 pixels to 2500 pixels.
Terms of Use: Absolutely free (Personal and commercial).
Photoshop Brushes 08 – Destroyed Watercolor Brushes
Author: The Shoreways
Description: This pack consists 26 high-resolution free Photoshop brushes that were created using unique watercolor painting techniques in order to give the brushes a more grunge feel. These effects were achieved by using salt, alcohol, plastic wrap, tissue paper, etc. The size of the brushes range from around 2400 pixels to 2500 pixels.
Terms of Use: Absolutely free (Personal and commercial).
Photoshop Brushes 09 – Watercolor 2 Brush Pack
Author: Env1ro
Description: This pack of of free Photoshop brushes contains 25 watercolor brushes created using watercolors. The brushes are compatible with Photoshop 7 and CS+.
Terms of Use: Free for personal use only. If you wish to use these brushes for commercial brushes, contact the author first.
Photoshop Brushes 10 – Brush Painting
Author: Roderico
Description: There are 42 watercolor free Photoshop brushes in this set that you can use for free. Total file size of the brushes is 1MB.
Terms of Use: Free
Photoshop Brushes 11 – Messy Watercolor Photoshop Brushes Set
Author: Fudge Graphics
Description: This set of messy watercolor free Photoshop brushes was created exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. But this does not mean that you can no longer download these brushes for free. You just have to visit the Smashing magazine’s website and download the set there for free. The set has 12 brushes at a resolution of 2300px which results in an .abr file of the size 27.3Mb.
Terms of Use: Free for personal and commercial uses.
Photoshop Brushes 12 – Watercolor Strokes Brushes
Author: Fudge Graphics
Description: This brush set includes 14 high resolution free Photoshop brushes. They are all between 1597 pixels and 2500 pixels large. The brushes are compatible with Photoshop version CS1 and above.
Terms of Use: Free for personal and commercial uses.
Photoshop Brushes 13 – High Resolution Brushes
Author: McBadshoes
Description: This pack consists 8 really high-resolution free Photoshop brushes that you can use for free. These brushes range from 1440 pixels to 1924 pixels in size.
Terms of Use: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Photoshop Brushes 14 – Watercolor Brushes
Author: McBadshoes
Description: This pack consists 38 medium-resolution free Photoshop brushes that you can use for free. An image pack is also included in the download pack in case you are not a Photoshop user.
Terms of Use: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
very nice and useful, I like.. thanks..
Nice collection. Watercolor is my favorite medium.
Great post thanks a bunch.
Very nice list, bookmarked.