Create Light Effects Using these 1000+ Fractal Art
Light effects can be easily achieved through fractal brushes and textures. Fractal Art (FA) has been around for approximately 15-20 years. Nowadays, digital graphic designers make use of fractal art in creating abstract and beautiful lighting effects such as background of websites and other design forms. Fractal Art is a genre concerned with fractals—shapes or sets characterized by self affinity (small portions of the image resemble the overall shape) and an infinite amount of detail, at all scales. Fractals are typically created on a digital computer, using an iterative numerical process. Lately, images that are not technically fractals, but that share the same basic generating technique and environment, have been welcomed into the FA world.
In this post, we compiled an extensive links to fractal design resources–brushes and textures– that are made available online. Most of these resources carry a Creative Commons license, thus, they are free to use for noncommercial purposes under certain conditions laid out by the authors.
1) BRUSHES FOR CREATING LIGHT EFFECTS
Light Effects 01- Light Beams Plus Rays Brushes
Author: redheadstock
A set of 26 Photoshop brushes made up of various light beams and rays of light. It includes beams like those from spotlights, sunlight like you would see coming through branches, lighthouse light beams, sunburst type effects (full circles as well as half and three quarters of the burst), and even some particles to add to your beams of light to make it look like floating dust. These are extremely high resolution, averaging about 2250 pixels in size. For Photoshop 7+, Photoshop Elements 2+, GIMP 2.2.6+
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Light Effects 02-Nova Equinox Brushes
Author: axeraider70
A set of 11 brushes composed of space light brushes. Compatible with Photoshop 8+ and Photoshop Elements 3+
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Light Effects 03- Abstract Light Swirl Brushes
Author: differentxdreamz
Obviously, the brush will look less glow-ly than the display pic because brushes are grayscaled… But just use some glows, change the contrast or balance, and even the hue, and you’ll be fine…
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Light Effects 04-Night 2 GIMP Brushes
Author: MylastBlkRose
Just in case you need images of the night sky and other elements such as full moon, stars, etc., these brushes are ideal to use.
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Light Effects 05- Urban Brushes
Author: mim4y
A set of 13 Photoshop brushes made up of night shots of high rise buildings. Useful for creating a night urban setting/effects in your design. This set was created using Photoshop 7.
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Light Effects 06- Destiny Brushes
Author: axeraider70
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Light Effects 07- Christmas Brushes
Author: Edelihu
A set of Photoshop brushes composed of Christmas lights and glitters. Perfect for creating Christmas-themed cards, tags, posters, websites, etc.
Light Effects 08- Fractal Brushes Set 3
Author: night-fate-stock
A set of Photoshop brushes made up of various fractal lights. Created in Photoshop 7, with resolution of each brush varying from 1000 pixels to 1300 pixels.
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Light Effects 09- Traveler
Author: hawksmont
A set of 11 Photoshop brushes created in Photoshop 7. If you want to achieve the effect on the preview use a black background and white paint for the brush. Use a glow brush on a new layer (black layer is beneath). Duplicate the layer with the brush and set the blending mode for this new layer on ‘Overlay’ or ‘Color’ (Overlay works better for me). Select this last layer and open Hue/Saturation window (ctrl+U, command+U), check the colorize option an then move all sliders as you want to.
Light Effects 10 - Abstract Butterfly Brushes
Author: Edelihu
A set of 8 high quality Photoshop brushes made up of abstract glowing butterfly brushes.
Light Effects # 11 - Party Brushes
Author: Edelihu
A set of high quality Photoshop brushes that you can use for designing party or music-themed posters and cards.
Light Effects #12- Extremely Abstract
Author: env1ro
A set of 20 Photoshop brushes made up of various light beams and rays of light. These are extremely high resolution, averaging about 1500 pixels in size.
Light Effects #13- Photoshop Fire Brushes
Author: Brush King
A set of 9 high resolution Photoshop brushes made up of various fire images.
Light Effects #14 – Abstract Brush Set
Author: r0man_de
A set of 4 symmetric abstract brushes in a very nice resolution/quality. Created in Adobe Photoshop CS3.
Light Effects #15- Galactic Brushes
Author: Axeraider70
A very stellar brush set created in Adobe Photoshop CS2 and converted to Photoshop 7.
Light Effects #16 – Light Beams Plus Rays Brushes
Author: boyingopaw
A set of 55 kaleidoscopic brushes for Adobe Photoshop.
Light Effects #17- Fractal Chaos
Author: Javier Zhx
A set of 10 fractal brushes for creating abstract backgrounds in Adobe Photoshop.
Light Effects #18 – Funky Fractals
Author: Smirnoff-Sweety
A set of 15 Photoshop brushes made up of various funky fractals that you can use for creating interesting abstract backgrounds in Adobe Photoshop.
Light Effects #19- Fractal Brush Set 04
Author: ekamanganese
This set contains five high resolution fractal brushes. The brushes are free for any use including commercial. While not required, the author requires a link to any work anyone has done with these brushes.
Light Effects 20- Ghost’s Fractals
Author: ghost001
A set of 17 Sexy Fractal Brushes I made for anyone to use. All the brushes are very high quality for maximum detial. Enjoy the set and please favorite if you download them on Deviantart.
2) TEXTURES FOR CREATING LIGHT EFFECTS
Light Effects Texture 01- Fractal Wallpaper (with Gimp)
Author: carlitosway85
Light Effects Texture 02- Fractal Blues
Author: Fábio Pinheiro
Light Effects Textures 03 – Genesis
Author: Lynn (Gracie’s mom) – I’m here & there
Light Effects Textures 04 – Apophysis
Author: Lynn (Gracie’s mom) – I’m here & there
Light Effects Textures 05- The Holy One
Author: Lynn (Gracie’s mom) – I’m here & there
Light Effects Textures 06- Cropped Circle
Author: Lynn (Gracie’s mom) – I’m here & there
Light Effects Textures 07- Flickr Ring
Author: Lynn (Gracie’s mom) – I’m here & there
Light Effects Textures 08- Luminescence
Author: Lynn (Gracie’s mom) – I’m here & there
Light Effects #09- God’s Fireworks
Author: Lynn (Gracie’s mom) – I’m here & there
Light Effects #10- Abstract Colorful Universe Wallpaper – TTdesign
Author: tomt6788
Light Effects # 11- Abstract Light
Author: Gabriel Machado
Light Effects #12- Flower Light
Author: HocusFocusClick
Light Effects #13- White Rosebud
Author: HocusFocusClick
Light Effects #14- Ultra Fractal + Apophysis
Author: Marty.FM
Light Effects #15-Starfish In Seashell
Author: HocusFocusClick
Light Effects #16 – 10 Fractals Pack
Author: Rose Cabriolet
Light Effects #17 – 7 Wallpaper Fractals Pack
Author: Mad Potato
Light Effects #18 – 4 Fractals Pack
Author: Sweetaslemons
Light Effects #19 – Fractals Pack
Author: Sunchales
Light Effects #20 – Dreaming of Fractals
Author: one-tough-one
Light Effects #21 – Fractals Pack II
Author: Rose Cabriolet
Light Effects #22 – Fractal Pack 1
Author: greentunic
Light Effects #23 – Fractal Pack 2
Author: greentunic
Light Effects #24 – Apophysis flame pack 1
Author: saturn stock
Light Effects #25 – Fractal Pack
Author: arezthetic
Light Effects # 26 – Sya’s Fractal Pack
Author: sya
Light Effects #27 – Flame Texture Pack 01
Author: aAbsinthyium-stock
Light Effects #28 – Fairylust
Author: Jonny McCauley
Light Effects #29 – Links
Author: Tatiana Plakhova
Light Effects #30 – Thinking Fractals
Author: Rodolfo Biglie
thanksssss
very nice
Very nice… these gonna get blitzed on album covers!
wonderful brushes, many thanks for collection..
wow gr8 comments thankz