25 Awesome Natural Brushes & Textures for Photoshop

25 Awesome Natural Brushes & Textures for Photoshop

With eco-consciousness at an all time high and ethical products securing greater profits each year, natural designs of all kinds are in higher demand than ever before. If you want to get in on the action commercially, or simply want to create natural artwork for your own pleasure, you’re going to need the right brushes and textures to use in Photoshop. Below you’ll find 25 awesome, natural brushes and textures that will breathe life into any design. We’ve covered everything, from the ordinary, like trees, grasses and leaves, to the extraordinary, like strange creatures of the deep.

1. Leaves (bittbox)

This fabulous set of 10 brushes, 2500px in size, was made from scanning real leaves.

2. Grass Brushes (Midnightstouch)

There are over 10,000 species of grass found in the natural world. You’ll find 36 of the best lovingly recreated here.

3. Branches & Foliage (ladyvictoire)

A set of 16 brushes, covering everything from tree branches to grasses and shrubs.

4. Complete Tree Brush Set (Horhew)

This really is the “complete” set, with 40 brushes of all types of trees, from the tropical coconut tree to the mountain-loving fir.

5. Ice (bittbox)

You start to feel cold just looking at these high-res ice textures- they’re so well captured.

6. Epic Cloud and Sky Textures (Lost and Taken)

20 textures of rolling clouds and tumultuous skies.

7. Moon Brushes (keepwaiting)

45 brushes showing the Moon at various positions in its orbit around the Earth.

8. Knot Holes (Room122)

10 brushes of knots found in an old wooden fence.

9. Bugs (macellodesign)

Brushes detailing the silhouettes of five different bugs.

10. Sea Creatures Vol. 1 & 2 (Brushing Up)

Weird and wonderful creatures found in the deep-blue sea. 19 different brushes in total.

11. Feather Brushes (LoS-Stock)

Eight brushes detailing the feathers of various birds in high resolution.

12. Liquid Drops (Ardcor)

A huge set of water droplet Photoshop brushes.

13. Fire Brushes (Resource42)

Nine, fiery and fierce, top-quality brushes

14. Star Brushes (Demosthenesvoice)

Six inter-galactic brushes of stars, constellations and galaxies.

15. Gravel (Free Photoshop Textures)

A fantastic texture depicting gravel, interspersed with small leaves and twigs.

16. Limestone (Free Photoshop Textures)

Sedimentary layers are clearly visible in this great limestone texture.

17. Mountain Brushes (Scully 7491)

Scully 7491 rendered mountain images in Terragen before converting them into Photoshop brushes.

18. Fish Brushes (mediaklepto)

This set of 42 brushes contains everything from jellyfish to octopus and eel.

19. Apple Blossom (Midnightstouch)

A beautiful set of apple blossom brushes with a real vintage quality.

20. Lightning (Ailedda)

An electric set of 11 lightning brushes.

21. Erable.Japonnais (ShadyMedusa-stock)

Four brushes depicting foliage, each with a distinctly Asian look.

22. Twigs (Clandestine-Stock)

Antique looking twig and branch brushes.

23. Smoke (wiim)

A subtle set of soft brushes, made from photographs of candle smoke.

24. Water Textures (Elitha Stock)

Four refreshing water textures.

25. Rough Textures (Six Revisions)

A set of 15, high-res textures of rough and sandy surfaces.

This post was created by Tom Walker, a UK based writer and designer who works with a supplier of HP PSC ink, toner and paper. Check out their blog where you can read more of his writing on art and design.

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8 Superb Responses

Hermitbiker says:
March 15, 2010 at 9:11 pm
…. these brush sets are fantastic…. always wondered how some of the images I’ve seen had been created…. why with special brushes that I see here…. possibly !!
m3 ds real says:
March 16, 2010 at 3:25 am
Wow these are just amazing natural brushes textures for Photoshop which I have never seen before.Mountains and Apple Blossom are looking really very nice.Some of these are beautiful as its very hard for me to choose among all these natural brushes textures.
GDevelop WebDesign says:
March 16, 2010 at 4:08 pm
Beautyful!
Thanks for collecting and publishing this list.
Omer Greenwald says:
March 20, 2010 at 5:07 pm
Beautiful collection, thanks for sharing
Jason says:
April 10, 2010 at 12:48 am
Nice collection of brushes. Found what I was looking for. Many thanks!
orkut scraps says:
June 22, 2010 at 9:17 am
your is very useful for others like me,because i am a graphic designer(greeting cards),thanks a lot
best wishes
Betty says:
June 23, 2010 at 9:08 pm
cool list, thanks.
r4 card says:
June 29, 2010 at 12:03 pm
The grass brushes are my favorite… And the Star brushes a close second… I like the Ice brushes too, but can’t see the applications in what I would need.