You can easily create backgrounds that look like they were made using paintbrushes. Using the right watercolor textures or watercolor brushes can easily easily create depth and an artistic feel in your compositions. Note: The next time you restart Photoshop you will not have to load the file, it will be in the list of Brush Libraries.Watercolor effects in web and print designs continue to dominate the world of design.

Navigate until you find the file and load it (Photoshop/Presets/Brushes/BB_watercolor.abr ).

In your Photoshop Brushes palette, click on the arrow in the upper right and click on “Load Brushes.”.

Copy the file (BB_watercolor.abr) to your Photoshop/Presets/Brushes folder.

Here is a screenshot of the brush set:ĭownload: Watercolor Photoshop Brushes Installation: (if a piece of art can be in any way compared to making a car) Anyway, I'll stop rambling now. I guess in a nutshell, I use Illustrator as a parts factory and Photoshop for the glue/bolts/and paint. I like to take brushes like these and add backgrounds and overlays to my shapes and Photoshop is the way to go when it comes to texture anyway. Combining the vector shapes I create with the power of some good old Photoshopping is usually how I arrive at a finished piece of work. I usually start off in vector and almost every time end up in Photoshop when it's all said and done. I write mostly about Illustrator in this blog, but the truth is, Illustrator is only the beginning. The smallest brush in this set is 1989px! I was limited by CS2 to 2500 pixels, so that is as big as they get.

I often have trouble finding brushes that are big enough for what I'm doing, so I just made my own. I'm constantly going back and forth between Illustrator and Photoshop in my projects, and I'm starting to pretty much make everything from scratch.

Here is a nice set of Photoshop Brushes from BittBox.

Download watercolor brush photoshop