Free Grunge Style Photoshop Brush Sets

Others — By Script on February 12, 2009 at 9:53 am

I’m not a big fan of the grunge style. However, because grungy designs are still “in” or trendy these days, I would like to ride this popularity and list here some high quality Photoshop brushes that you could use to add random patches of dirt, rust and mold to textures in your artwork. You may also use these brushes to give your photos that aged and damaged look.

Important: Please read the fine-print. Many designers require attribution or have special requirements for
commercial use of their artwork. Please give them the credit they deserve. (Even if they don’t require one).

1. Urban Decay Photoshop Brushes

A large collection of grungy, dirty and decayed Photoshop brushes. This set contains 61 brushes and free to use for personal designs.

2. Sidewalk Cracks

This is the first of a series of high resolution Photoshop brush set from Room122.com. Inspired by sidewalk cracks, Volume 1 of the Sidewalk Series features six high resolution sidewalk cracks.

3. Oil Stains

The second volume of the Sidewalk Series contains 10 high resolution grungy concrete stains and spots similar to those that you find on the sidewalk and in the street.

4. Concrete Rust

The third installment of the Sidewalk Series includes nine high resolution brushes. The concrete rust set are spots on the sidewalk that appear as worn areas of brown rust, usually caused from a hole or chip in the
concrete. These are great for adding a bit of grunginess to your design work.

5. Hi-Res Mess

This set from Qbrushes contains five high resolution 2000px plus grungy and messy brushes for Photoshop CS and up. You may use them as you wish for commercial and none commercial use.

6. Grungy Wings

This brush set was made using a sketch pad, a can of spray paint and a kitchen sponge. The set includes five pairs of wings, making the brush total 10. As usual, the brushes are ginormous (2500px).

7. Grungy Watercolor

This set contains 10 super large brushes. The zip file that you can download included a PNG files for non-Photoshop users. The brushes were made from a combination of watercolor and india ink.

8. Grungy Texture

The set includes grungy textures as well as some rocky cracks. There are 12 brushes in this
set, all of them 2500px in size. These brushes can be used with Photoshop, CS, CS2 and CS3. A PNG format is also included for non-Photoshop users.

9. Typographic Grunge Brushes

The set contains random letter and number grunge brushes made from stock photos. Most of the brushes work better in large sizes. Compatible with Photoshop 7 and up. Please read the fine-print carefully .

10. Quad Grunged

The Quad Grunged pack contains 10 grungy abstract brushes and compatible with Photoshop 7 and up! Available for personal use only.

11. Dumpster Brushes

This set has 8 Photoshop brushes created from photos of old dumpsters. All brushes are over 800px. Feel free to use these any way you need to use them (commercial and non-commerical).

12. Rough Edges

For creating rough edges effects. Includes high res brushes and works even with older versions of Photoshop.

13.Grunge Brushes

This set is made in Photoshop 7, with brushes available in medium and large size. The pack is a bit heavy to download. You may use these brushes for both personal and commercial purposes.

14. Ultimate Grunge Brushes 3

This set from QBrushes contains 135 high-resolution grunge brushes. Free to use for personal and commercial purposes.

15. Splatters

This set contains 35 high-resolution splats and drips, that load in PS7 and up. These were originally made by breaking fountain pen cartridges onto posterboard, and scanning the results.The brushes can be downloaded for non-commercial use only.

16. Blood Grunge

This set from Krisreine.com contains high resolution blood grunge brushes. These brushes are compatible with Photoshop 6 version and up. Free for personal and commercial use.

17. Garfcore Splatter Pack

The pack contains 23 brushes, the smallest one being 927 pixels and the largest; 2405 pixels. These brushes are intended for large scale use since resizing them for a smaller document could be tedious. Free for personal use only.

18. Hi-Res Splatter Brush

Another grunge brush from Bittbox, this pack contains 23 high resolution brushes. The size of the brushes range from 2457px (smallest) to 2,500px. This set is compatible with Photoshop CS and up. A PNG file is also included for those using early versions and Photoshop and non-Photoshop users.

19. Tizzape Tape Brushes

This set is made for Photoshop 7 and also works with newer versions of Photoshop. The collection includes 19 high-resolution masking tape brushes that can be downloaded for commercial use only.

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