Noupe Editorial Team October 26th, 2008

1000+ FREE High Resolution GIMP Brushes

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Last week we published our first GIMP post "30+ Exceptional GIMP Tutorials and Resources" and saw a great appreciation from our readers. So this week, i would like to share with you 1000+ high-Resolution GIMP brushes that will be perfect for any project you may happen to be working on. Also you will find some useful tutorial to teach you how to create your first GIMP brush-set and how to convert Photoshop brushes into GIMP brushes and more. Please note that Photoshop Brushes are now Fully Compatible with Gimp 2.4 and up. So you can now use any PS brush in your GIMP software. For another huge collection of Photoshop brushes, you might find some really stunning brushes over here. Important: Licenses of every brush set varies, so be sure to check that information before using them.

1. Grunge Brush set

1.1 GIMP Grunge Brush Pack 2

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10 grunge GIMP brushes.
Download Brush Set here

1.2 Grunge brush set 3

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Includes an imagepack and brushes for Gimp.
Download Brush Set here

1.3 More grunge brushes

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13 grunge brushes; includes .gbrs for Gimp and an imagepack.
Download Brush Set here

2. Floral and Plant Brushes

2.1 Floral I

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There are 9 big brushes - at lest 1300 px each, so you can use them also in printed stuff.
Download Brush Set here

2.2 Floral Part 2

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There are 6 big brushes of flower brushes.
Download Brush Set here

2.3 Floral Brushes

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10 greyscale floral .gbr brushes for GIMP. They are about 400x400px and have blended edges.
Download Brush Set here

2.4 Pine - MEGA PACK

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There are 16 full branches and 33 smaller parts, so you can design you own branches yourself.
Download Brush Set here

2.5 Vector Foliage-Plants

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Download Brush Set here

3. Nature GIMP Brushes

3.1 Cloudy Brushes

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Realistic cloudy brushes for your skyscaping needs.
Download Brush Set here

3.2 GIMP Brushes: Moon

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There are 9 big brushes in this set.
Download Brush Set here

3.2 Lightning Brushes

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A nice set of lightning brushes.
Download Brush Set here

4. Glitter, Splatter and Snowflakes

4.1 GIMP Glitter Brushes

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Realistic cloudy brushes for your skyscaping needs.
Download Brush Set here

4.2 Splatter Brushes

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These brushes were originally created for Photoshop then converted to GIMP brushes.
Download Brush Set here

4.3 Snowflakes

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There are 20 snowflakes in this pack. They were created in CorelDraw 11 and then converted with GIMP 2.2.
Download Brush Set here

5. Water and Bubbles Brush sets

4.4 GIMP Water Brushes

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This set contains 36 brushes created in Photoshop 7.0 and converted with GIMP 2.2.6
Download Brush Set here

4.5 Bubbles

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This set contains 9 brushes created in Photoshop 7.0 and converted with GIMP 2.2.
Download Brush Set here

5. Miscilnea GIMP Brushes

5.1 Mask Brushes

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5 mask brushes. GBRs for Gimp and an imagepack.
Download Brush Set here

5.2 Butterflies Part I

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There are 9 brushes in this pack. They were created in CorelDraw 11 and then converted with GIMP 2.2.
Download Brush Set here

5.3 1100 Gimp Brushes

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This set contains 1100 brushes for GIMP
Download Brush Set here

5.4 Doodles Part 2

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This set contains 41 ! brushes created for GIMP
Download Brush Set here

5.5 Blood Brushes

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Looking for splattery blood brushes, here you go.
Download Brush Set here

5.6 Inner Universe Brushes

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Download Brush Set here

5.7 GIMP Odysee Brushes

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Download Brush Set here

5.8 GIMP Galactic Brushes

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Download Brush Set here

5.9 GIMP Rise Brushes

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Download Brush Set here

5.10 GIMP Edge Brushes

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Download Brush Set here

5.11 15 Vector Brushes

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15 vector .gbr brushes for GIMP.
Download Brush Set here

GIMP Brush Tutorials

1. Creating Spikey Brushes

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Learn how to create spike-looking brushes.

2. Make a .GBR Brush

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Learn how to create .GBR brushes from pre-existing files
Further reading: Best Photoshop alternatives Featured Image by Howard Bouchevereau on Unsplash

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122 comments

  1. 5.3 needs to be removed…i stumbled accross this trying to enhance my gimp install with some better brushes….pretty nice just i think some of them don’t work in the way of downloading them o.O

  2. hi thanks for the information that you share :) it’s really useful :) btw could you share to us how to edit photo by GIMP? thank you so much :)

  3. These all look so amazing, but when I tried downloading them they wouldn’t save to my computer and what not. How do I download these (if I’m not doing so right)? Thanks.

  4. WOW!! Just downloaded every last one of them! :-) Even went over to hawksmont’s site and got all of those! My gimp is very happy right now! :-D

    ^^Download by opening the zip files, then extracting the .gbr files to your gimp brushes folder. Mine is C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\share\gimp\2.0\brushes\

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