Adobe Photoshop
Make your mark with Photoshop brushes
Whether you want a spray paint or ink wash effect, find the exact brush you need to let your creativity flow with digital drawing, painting, and lettering in Adobe Photoshop.
Adobe Photoshop
Whether you want a spray paint or ink wash effect, find the exact brush you need to let your creativity flow with digital drawing, painting, and lettering in Adobe Photoshop.
Elevate your digital art with custom drawing brushes or jump-start your work with preset Photoshop brushes.
Perfect your hand lettering and calligraphy brushstrokes with high-quality Photoshop brush sets.
Create the exact linework and shading you want. Bring your digital drawings to life with pencil, ink, and charcoal brushes.
Experiment with everything from watercolor brushes to splatter effects and explore thousands of preset tools.
Create a unique toolkit with custom Photoshop brushes that can help you achieve any effect you want.
Create a unique toolkit with custom Photoshop brushes that can help you achieve any effect you want.
Exclusive Photoshop brushes
Explore the free brush packs below and upgrade your art and design work with a range of unique textures, styles, and effects. If you don’t have Photoshop, subscribe now for full access to more than thirty brush packs, from Art Markers and Impressionist to Crosshatchers and Runny Inkers.
Download the brushes you want and save them along with your other Adobe brush files (ABRs) on your laptop or iPad. For Photoshop desktop, click on the ABR while Photoshop is running and they’ll be automatically added to your Brushes panel. For Photoshop on iPad and Adobe Fresco, open the brush panel and click on the + button, navigate to your ABR file, and select it to add the brushes.
Bright multicolor brushes, fresh foliage brushes, new inking tools, a new drawing brush, and plenty of textures can be found in this huge Spring update (30 brushes!) for 2024. May your creativity bloom!
Over 300 tools covering a wide range of media, including pencils, pastels, charcoal, inks, oils, and watercolors. Also contains smudge tools (blenders) and erasers. Explore each category separately to find your favorites. Already have it? Install updates.
Chalk, pastel, pencil, and other brushes with pronounced textures. Also includes smudge tools.
Inspired by Golden Books artists of the 1950s and '60s who worked primarily in gouache and made use of both wet and dry brush effects. Golden subset lets you control the amount of dry brush with the tilt of your stylus (must have pen tablet that recognizes tilt).
Over 100 pressure-sensitive tools that let you control the density of a halftone pattern. Also includes a small selection of simple screentone brushes that do not respond to pen pressure, so you can quickly fill an area with an even tone.
Brushes for finer line work and a few practical halftone brushes for adding tone. Also includes effects brushes, sketch pencil, and eraser.
Over 40 unique brushes that let you control the amount of spatter, density, and direction with the pressure of your stylus. Get effects ranging from toothbrush-sprayed dots to paint dripping on wet paper.
Wet media brushes for broad washes, detail work, spatter, and other effects. Every brush makes use of built-in textures to further enhance the look of your brush strokes.
One of the amazing things about working with brushes in Photoshop is that you can create and share your own. Whether you’re just getting started or you’re an experienced digital artist, it can be fun to download and import brushes straight from Adobe or your favorite creators.
Here’s how:
If you can’t find the exact right brush in {{photoshop}} or in a brush pack, good news — you can make your own. Think ahead about what look you’re going for and what kind of brush will help you achieve that effect. Then go ahead and experiment with settings in the Brushes panel and save your new custom brush.
Here’s how: