Posted: 14 Aug 2013 08:01 AM PDT

The demand for high-quality brushes for Photoshop is growing day by day. Designers need brushes for various web projects and photography post-processing. There are so many Photoshop brushes all over the Internet that it's extremely difficult to find the one that would completely fit your specialised requirements.

That is why I decided to collect 100 fantastic and free Photoshop brush sets! This round-up includes the a wide ariety of free Photoshop brushes.

Recommended Reading: 50 Free Photoshop Brush Sets

Here you will find lots of watercolor brushes, skin, hair, and eyelash brushes, floral and sky brushes, grunge and ink splatters brushes, and many many more! Just click to download!

1. Watercolor Paint Brushes

2. Funny Emotional Face Brushes for Photoshop

3. Dirty Spray Brushes

4. Hair Brushes

5. Paint Strokes & Splatter Brushes

6. Ink Splatters Brushes

7. Falling Petals Brush

8. Heart Shaped Smoke Brush

9. Clouds Brushes

10. Variety #1

11. Watercolor Paint Brushes

12. Coffee Stain Brushes

13. Dust Particle Brushes

14. Free Skin Texture Brushes

15. Paint markers brush set

16. Handdrawn Doodle Brushes

17. Free Cross Hatch Photoshop Brush Set

18. Hand Drawn Flower Brushes for Photoshop

19. Watercolor Splatters

20. Moon Brush Set

21. Paint Trails brushes

22. SMOKEY Fire Brushes

23. Fibers #1

24. 12 Strings And Bubbles Brushes

25. Tech Brushes

26. Night Sky Free Brushes

27. Electrifying Lightning Brush Strikes

28. Chinese Painting Flowers

29. 2Bit-Twilight Brushes

30. Blood Marks brushes

31. Urban Retro Brushes/ Save Ai Edition

32. WaterColor EXTREMUM

33. Circles Madness brushes

34. Flower Ornament Brushes

35. Abstract 5

36. Lace Brush Set

37. Nero’s Brush set of smudgy magic and other stuff

38. 4 Buttons Brushes

39. Hand Drawn Flowers Brush Set

40. DBD DitsyClouds

41. Bokeh Brushes

42. Tag Brush Pack

43. Serenity: Light Streak Brushes

44. Dandelion Puff Brushes

45. Fruit Brushes for Photoshop

46. Hi-Res Splatter PS Brush Set

47. Bows Brush Set

48. Eye-Lashes PS-CS Brush Set

49. Valentine's Day Brushes: Birds, Trees & Hearts

50. Hand-Drawn Heart Brushes for Valentine's Day

51. Floral Swirl Brushes for Photoshop

52. Frosty Edges Brush

53. Ultimate Space Brush Pack – Part 1

54. Urban Brushes for Photoshop

55. Bird Silhouette Brush Set for Photoshop

56. Ribbons #3

57. Insane Watercolor Brush Set

58. Photoshop Brushes: Splatter #1

59. Ice Cube, Icicle and Ice Brushes for Photoshop

60. Wall Crack Brushes

61. High Res Nebula Galaxies & Star Brushes

62. Sticker

63. Butterfly Brushes

64. Free Photoshop Brush set – Tri

65. Food Brush Pack

66. VectorPack Brushes

67. Extreme Lashes

68. Melancholy: Abstract Explosion & Light Streak Brushes

69. Glossy Blood Splatter Brushes

70. Abstract Urban Brush Set

71. Assassin Grunge Abstract Brushes

72. Paint/Ink Splats/Blots/Splash/Splatter Brushes

73. Realistic Acrylic Paint Brush Stroke Brushes

74. Hand Drawn Talk/Speech Bubble Doodles Brushes

75. 5 Soap Bubble Brushes

76. Leaves and Foliage Photoshop Brushes

77. Chain Brush

78. Real Smoke Brush Set

79. Shining Sun Sparkles Brush Set

80. Snowflake Brushes

81. Apophysis Brush Set

82. Tree Borders Brushes

83. PatrioticPack Part 1

84. 28 Ink and Watercolor Brushes

85. Grunge Brushes 1

86. Jellyfish Brushes

87. Acrylic brushes set

88. Butter Wings Brush Set

89. My first brush set

90. Sponge Prints and swirls Set

91. Stitching Brush Set

92. Free Hi-Res Watercolor Photoshop Brushes

93. Lace mix

94. Textiles ornaments – 18 brushes

95. Cool brushes

96. Fingerprints

97. Free Eyelash Photoshop Brushes

98. Tea Party Brush Set

99. Spring Flower Ornament Brushes

100. Palm Trees Brushes for PS

How to Create Your Own Custom Grid System in Photoshop

Posted: 14 Aug 2013 06:01 AM PDT

Grid is a popular approach to building websites. It is more consistent and makes sections proportionally right. A couple of examples of CSS Grid frameworks are 960.gs or Skeleton. However, one of the constraints of using a grid framework is that we will have less flexibility.

We are bound to the framework’s specification, and its author’s methodology, which in many cases might not be suitable for our website requirements.

In this post, we are going to show you how to create a custom grid both for CSS and Photoshop. To make the process easy, we are going to use several tools. Let’s check it out.

Install GuideGuide

First, We need to install GuideGuide, a Photoshop extension to create guide lines, specifically designated to create a Grid with ease. To be able to install GuideGuide, your Photoshop need to be at least CS4.

The Photoshop extension can be installed through the Adobe Extension Manager, as follows.

Calculate Your Grid

Before we setup the guide lines in Photoshop, we need to calculate the grid, which includes the total width, the column width, the column number, and the column gutter. These can be done easily using grid calculator by Heroku.com.

In this example, I would like specify the total width for 1000px, 30px for the gutter width, and 10 for the number of columns. This tool will then automatically generate the actual content width as well as the appropriate column width.

You can also download the generated CSS grid.

Create the Grid

Time to get back to Photoshop. Go to this menu: Window > Extensions to show the GuideGuide panel in the Photoshop sidebar. Then, create a new Photoshop canvas, and set the canvas width in accordance with the Fulll Width – in my case, it is 1000px.

Fill in the fields in the GuideGuide panel – Column Gutter, Column Width, and Column Numbers – in accordance to the ones in the grid calculator.

Then, in the GuideGuide panel, go to the Sets tab. In this tab you’ll find some preset guide lines. Select the Outline preset to create guide lines at the edge of the canvas.

We are done, and here is our custom grid ready-for-use for designing a website.

Additionally, you can add more room to breath at the left and right sides of the canvas by extending the canvas width, and then add rectangle in new layers for creating a visual helper for the columns of the grid.

Download the PSD of our example below.

Download PSD

Beautiful Color Isolations Desktop Wallpapers

Posted: 14 Aug 2013 03:01 AM PDT

Photographers love playing around with colors by isolating their subject with color and placing them on a black and white background. This technique of color isolation can easily turn a basic photo into something appealing, making the subject look unique without any mainstream editing or photo filters.

Wallpaper Wednesday is a day of inspiration and this time we have 16 Color Isolations Wallpapers in hopes you’ll use this technique to bring your photo’s subjects to life. You can also share with us your findings or personal pictures of color isolation in the comments below.

Color Isolation Rose. Available in various sizes.

Color Isolation Rose