A look at some free quality Gimp brushes you definitely should have in your brush collection. Including smoke brushes, glow brushes and splatter brushes.
Note: Did you know that Gimp works with a lot of Photoshop brushes as well as Gimp brushes? In this brush roundup all the brushes have been tested with Gimp 2.6. to make sure they work in Gimp.
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High quality smoke brushes by Graham Jeffery. Make sure you know where the scale brush slider is, because these brushes are huge! (2000px).
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These glow brushes can be used for a lot of designs, I especially like them in designs with black or dark backgrounds. These brushes are created by Hawksmont, one of my favorite brush creators. Also pretty huge brushes (1000px).
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Nice splatter brushes by ka05.
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These ones are made by Hawksmont.
I find floral brushes surprisingly useful, as you may have noticed, the image I use for the how to install Gimp brushes tutorial has some of these floral brushes.
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And finally some neat smudge brushes by antivuskning.
These ones are good for, well, creating smudge effects! Particularly handy for backgrounds.
If you don’t kow how to install brushes, see the how to install Gimp brushes tutorial.
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kang joyo
April 9th, 2011
wow, what a great collection . . . Thank you for sharing, mate.
Really appreciate it ^^
BernardMoonChild
June 20th, 2011
Amazing; Thank you so much for sharing!
caden
September 27th, 2011
how do u get them in to your brush collection on gimp2.6??
Wes
June 26th, 2012
Unfortunately the link for the Splatter Brushes (http://ka05.deviantart.com/art/Splatter-Brushes-31656209) is no longer good.
yay
June 26th, 2012
Thanks Wes, link has now been fixed
Jens
October 19th, 2012
nice collection, thanks for sharing!