Top 36 Tutorials for Creating Your Own Photoshop Brushes

Photoshop brushes are possibly the easiest way to add style to your designs, there settings are endless, There are countless brush packs that you can download for free, and other that you can buy, but sometimes you will want to use a brush that doesn’t yet exist. In these situations you may want to make your own brushes.

Regardless of your skill level in working with brushes you should find some tutorials here for you. Some cover the basic uses and functionality of brushes, some will teach you various ways to create your own custom brushes, and some will help you to develop your skills by using them as an integral part of a design.

Below you will find 36 tutorials to help you create your own Photoshop Brush.

1. How to Create Your Own Photoshop Brushes

How to Create Your Own Photoshop Brushes

A lot of people don’t realize how easy it is to create your own photoshop brushes. If you find yourself drawing the same elements over and over you can save a lot of time by creating a brush of that particular element

2. How to Create a Set of Photoshop Grunge Brushes

How to Create a Set of Photoshop Grunge Brushes

Veerle shows us a different approach to creating her grunge brushes. She first experiments on paper and then scans her work and creates the brush from there.

3. How to Create Florishes in Photoshop

AiVault shows how to create the flosishes in Photoshop, and then how to turn them into a brush to make them more useful and versatile.

4. How to Make Photoshop Brushes

This tutorial on deviantART show you the process of creating a brush starting with a photo. The tutorial uses a photo of a flower, but this approach can be used to create an type of brush.

5. Rose Brushes Tutorial

6. Leaf Brush Tutorial

7. Creating Photoshop Brushes from a Photograph

8. Feather Brush Tutorial

9. How to make a brush and how to use it

10. Coffee Stains and Splatters Brush Tutorial

11. How to Make a Photoshop Brush

Jay Hilgert of Bittbox shows us his process for creating brushes. Jay’s brush packs are among the most popular that you’ll find anywhere, so this is a must-read if you want to learn more about making your own.

12. Create Photoshop Brushes for Coffee Stains and Splatters

Create Photoshop Brushes for Coffee Stains and Splatters

Andrew Houle of My Ink Blog leads us through the process of create brushes from actual coffee stains and splatters.

13. How to Make a Brush in Photoshop CS3

This brief tutorial shows the simple process of converting an existing image into a brush. The author uses a graphic created in Illustrator as the starting point.

14. Creating Your Own Custom Adobe Photoshop Brushes

Creating Your Own Custom Adobe Photoshop Brushes

Tim from Assualt Blog shows his process for creating brushes from photos, plus how to set them up as a brush set.

15. How to Create Your Own Brushes

This tutorial from PhotoshopStar also shows the process of creating a brush from a photograph.

16. How to Create and Define Photoshop Brushes

MyPhotoshopBrushes shows the basics of creating brushes, how to create a sample brush from a scanned brushstroke, and also explains how you can save your brushes in a .abr file for easy distribution.

17. Creating Grunge Brushes