Free – Gradient Curve brushes
Posted by Mel on December 7, 2009
This a favourite set of mine which I’m now releasing for free. Really useful for creating flowing and vibrant backgrounds. There are 19 high resolution brushes in the set, which is for personal/non-profit use. If you’d like to use them commercially you can buy a license here
You can get good effects with the brushes as shown in the preview above by using different layer blend modes and styles.
Start with a black or dark background, and put each brush (in the colour you like) on a separate new layer.
Then go to Layer > Layer style > Blending options.
In the drop down under ‘Blending options’ choose something other than Normal, and if you have preview on you will see the different effects you can get. I like using mutiply or overlay.
Then you can add drop shadow, outer glow etc until you get a good effect. Its all just a matter of playing around with the layers until you get a nice look.
Tags:backgrounds, curves, flow, gradient, hig res, light, silky, streaks, sweep, swoosh
Filed Under: Digital Scrapbooking, Free Photoshop Brushes
Thank you, these look awesome. Can’t wait to play with them. Have a great day and thanks for sharing.
Wonderful quality! They work in PSE3. Thanks.