Over 550 Photoshop Brush Packs Free for Commercial Use

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As a compliment to our tutorial post for this week, 30 Tutorials That Will Teach You Photoshop, we thought Arbenting should put together a piece to go along with it. We have scoured the tubes to find you the coolest collection of commercial free-use Photoshop brush packs we could dig up. So check ‘em out and enjoy.

126 different high resolution brush sets, this is always my first stop for brushes since it offers so many different options and categories.

57 misc sets. lots of hand drawn designs and people

31 brush sets, mostly abstract in nature. Lots of great textures, swirls and circle designs.

9 grunge themed brush packs, the preview above shows all 9 sets.

One of the smaller collections with 11 sets but contains some of the best brushes. The hair brushes are some of the best i’ve ever used.

40 sets of misc themed brushes. Has quite a lot of animal skull brushes which I find kind of strange but some might find them useful.

52 brush sets. The moon & star set and the tree set really stand out.

236 brush packs - lots of gothic, art deco & animal brushes as well as a great selection of borders.

6 brush packs - painting strokes, perspective grids and smoke brushes

3 sets of tree brushes

12 brush sets - most are only 100x100 which drastically limits their usability but the coffee stains make them worth making the list.

6 high resolution brush sets from Bittbox

Just one set of splatter brushes but worth making the list.

Another single pack but one of my favorite grunge sets from Smashing Magazine

We know you’ll be playing with these for a while, but if you know of any of your favorite commercial free-use brush packs we have ignored to add, hit us up in the comments and drop a link.

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43 Comments »

Thomas | Brush King said:

Thanks for this round up

# 27 August 2008 at 1:54 am

Joe Blow said:

Proof you can have an unattractive website and be a “design blog”…

# 27 August 2008 at 6:00 am

Angie Bowen said:

@Thomas - No problem! I hope we could turn the brush king on to some new stuff

# 27 August 2008 at 2:50 pm

Angie Bowen said:

@Joe Blow - It would have been helpful to hear some of your suggestions or examples of what you think makes the blog unattractive. I also assume that the quote marks around design blog mean that you don’t see our site as a genuine design blog. I would love to know if you came to this conclusion based simply on the design of the site or if you actually read through some of our content before making the claim. Regardless, I’ll give a short explanation of what I like about the site design and why I chose to go with this design.

When designing my blog I wanted to do something that would make us stand out from other design blogs as well as show my personal style. I’m a huge color lover which is why I chose the bright color scheme. And, though I realize that the main ACD page isn’t around anymore, I designed the blog to be a wild, overgrown version of it. I thought the torn paper really enhanced the grungy, tangled look of the design and quite honestly, I just really liked it.

Again, if you would like to offer some constructive criticism, we completely welcome it.

# 27 August 2008 at 6:06 pm

Rudy said:

Hey Angie, I think your site is great and I dig this page. I took a color theory class and passed with a high B, so I don’t think I’m wrong. I also admire your typographic and layout skillz Keep up the great work and thanks for all the cool!!

# 28 August 2008 at 12:16 am

Angie Bowen said:

@Ruby - Thanks so much for the compliments! I’m really glad you’re enjoying the site and freebies. Hearing people’s appreciation really keeps us going!

# 28 August 2008 at 1:21 am

Rudiarsana said:

Nice Collection, ill use it for my next blog design, thx for sharing

# 1 September 2008 at 9:04 pm

Robert Bowen said:

@Rudiarsana - no problem, I’m glad we could give you some new resources.

# 2 September 2008 at 12:57 pm

nate said:

It never ceases to amaze me how ungrateful and tasteless people can be. I stummbled upon this site and I am definitely going to come back. The layout and colorscheme are fine for goodness sakes, plus it’s easy to understand and laid out nicely. Don’t feel you have to justify yourself to someone that has nothing better to do than stroke their own ego by upsetting others… there is a lot to be said for keeping things to yourself.

# 4 September 2008 at 6:59 pm

Robert Bowen said:

@ nate - online anonymity is wonderful thing. So many people able to express themselves without inhibitions, boundaries, thought or consideration. It’s great!

No, but thanks so much for the kind words! Much appreciated.

# 4 September 2008 at 8:12 pm

Gillian Foley said:

This is a great site, with awesome resources. Thanks so much for putting it together!

# 30 September 2008 at 4:32 pm

Lynette H. said:

Thanks so much! I am helping to build a yearbook in school, and these will help a lot!
And hey, Joe Blow, puh-leeze. I love the cranberry-ness of her website.

# 14 November 2008 at 6:44 am

No Reimer Reason said:

Thanks for the list. I have a bunch of Firefox tabs open to go investigate now.

No Reimer Reasons last blog post..Design News and FREE Digital Scrapbook QP

# 17 November 2008 at 8:00 pm

mel said:

Im amazed by the nasty comment of Jo Blow! I think this blog is great

mels last blog post..Hot Fuzz dynamic brushes

# 9 December 2008 at 2:59 am

D. said:

Awesome! I just discovered this design blog (no quotes, it’s a super design blog!) and I’m completely impressed! Good job!

# 21 December 2008 at 6:52 pm

Anna said:

Thank you for all the freebies and links to other resources! Great blog, clear design

# 13 February 2009 at 8:42 am

MegaFill said:

Wow! Very nice collection!

# 9 March 2009 at 7:10 am

Kerrick said:

Thanks, I really appreciate this!

# 11 March 2009 at 9:38 am

ali said:

thank you ….

# 19 April 2009 at 7:34 am

simha said:

Very nice collection!
thank you ….

# 18 May 2009 at 10:30 pm

nicole d said:

I’ve been a web designer going on 8 years and I don’t understand the comment made by the guy at the top about this site being unattractive. This site was obviously well thought out. Everything is compartmentalized and looks very neat and organized. Some designers try to get really fancy with their layouts and forget the basics of userability. This is a clean design and the site is easy to navigate, as all sites should be.

# 13 June 2009 at 4:35 pm