Free Hi-Res Watercolor Photoshop Brushes Set II

My first set of Photoshop brushes (high-res watercolor) was pretty popular, so I thought I would feed you all some more. (examples and download instructions below) I’m beginning to make a lot of brushes for myself because I can’t find exactly what I want online. Of course, I would never do that without sharing them with all of you. I hope you like them!

In this set of brushes, I went a little more crazy with the strokes. These brushes are more complex than the previous set and were painted on a higher quality paper, so the end result is in fact, much better. I hope you enjoy them, and I also hope you share your designs with the rest of us in the BittBox User Showcase Group on Flickr.

Screenshot:

A Closer Look:

A thumbnail of one of the brushes in the set, and a cropped section of that full size brush.

Another brush in the set. (image below is about 25% of the full size)

Download CS3 Version: (29.2MB)

Includes: - Photoshop CS3 Brush Library (1)

Download CS1 Version: (29.2MB)

Includes: - Photoshop CS1 Brush Library (1)

Everyone Else - PNG Source Files: (35MB)

The CS Brushes Should work in CS2, but just in case, here are the PNG Source files so you can make your own brushes if you need to, and for all previous Photoshop versions.

Includes: - PNG source files (20)

Installation:

1. Download the file and unzip it.

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

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

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

Note: The next time you restart Photoshop you will not have to load the file, it will be in the list of Brush Libraries.

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97 Responses to “Free Hi-Res Watercolor Photoshop Brushes Set II”

1. Girts, on May 19th, 2007 at 12:53 am

   uhhh Thank you ! :)

2. Andrew, on May 19th, 2007 at 1:29 am

   Digg it:
   http://digg.com/design/BittBox_Free_Hi_Res_Watercolor_Photoshop_Brushes_Set_II

3. csab, on May 19th, 2007 at 4:15 am

   sooo much!!!!!!! :))

4. READYdot, on May 19th, 2007 at 6:23 am

   Smooch! Great!

5. Navdeep, on May 19th, 2007 at 7:56 am

   Thanks for the brushes.

6. frank, on May 19th, 2007 at 8:37 am

   hmmm.. spare a thought for us dial up merchants bittbox lol.. i luv ya but damn thats gonna take me a while to download. I think i better put the kettle on and make myself a sandwich.

7. lluxus, on May 19th, 2007 at 11:26 am

   thanks a lot! your brushes are really great!

8. vivalanation734, on May 19th, 2007 at 12:16 pm

   Thank you sooo much!

   I love this site.

9. gonak, on May 19th, 2007 at 1:05 pm

   salut je trouve ce truc trop bien

10. matt, on May 19th, 2007 at 2:47 pm

    You haven’t mentioned Vecteezy so far - just curious if you’ve been there. I assume so, since some of your stuff is up there, but if you haven’t, you should check it out.

11. Moshe, on May 20th, 2007 at 9:25 am

    Thank you! =)

12. holyfrancis, on May 20th, 2007 at 9:50 am

    those brushes are ace! I just used them in a new design. check it out at http://www.flickr.com/photos/holyfrancis/505875927/

    thank you!

13. Greg Whitworth, on May 20th, 2007 at 12:55 pm

    Once again you amaze me. You have inspired me to start my own development design blog to help give back to the web community. I have made sure to mention your freebies and gave a link to your wonderful site of incite and inspiration!

    –
    Greg

14. proton, on May 20th, 2007 at 6:53 pm

    cheers big ears :)

15. BittBox, on May 20th, 2007 at 10:06 pm

    @Greg

    That’s awesome! I love the fact that you started a blog, and I know that it will challenge you, and you will find it rewarding.

    ~Bitt

16. Jaxxx, on May 21st, 2007 at 3:08 am

    @holyfrancis

    those brushes are ace! I just used them in a new design.

    I love it. Few colors and great contrast: white, black, dark red (blood!). No superfluous foliage. No butterflies. A strong concept and nothing else. That’s the eay I like it.

17. Young Mr. Arvizu, on May 21st, 2007 at 9:53 am

    I love these. Thank you.

18. holyfrancis, on May 21st, 2007 at 3:55 pm

    @Jaxxx

    Thanks mate. glad you like it! i’m not the butterfly kind of guy anyway

19. Ziptied, on May 21st, 2007 at 4:28 pm

    These are crazy tight, serious props to you again Bittbox.

    Q: I get the concept of creating the brushes etc, but how are you getting the layering and depth in the paint as if different fibers of the brush had a different paint load? Make sense?

    As always incredible work and hope that you keep it up, your a daily visit and that says alot!

20. BittBox, on May 21st, 2007 at 4:42 pm

    @Ziptied,

    I’m not 100% sure how I got the depth you are talking about. I just got some watercolors, a cheap brush, and went to town. Got lucky I guess.

    ~Bitt

21. tim j, on May 21st, 2007 at 9:45 pm

    i hate to sound like a complete moron but im just a senior in high school and trying to learn photoshop/illustrator on my own and was wondering how you made the color image of all the photoshop brushes. i dont want to rip you off im just trying to learn more and i have good ideas i just dont know how to make them all happen.

    thanks

22. BittBox, on May 21st, 2007 at 9:56 pm

    @tim j

    I also don’t want to sound trite, but there is no such thing as a stupid question.

    I made a different layer for each brush stroke. Layers, layers, layers. Then I played around with the “layer modes” (normal, multiply, screen, etc.) You will find the setting for layer modes in a dropdown menu in the layers palette.

    Also, I sometimes reduce the “flow” setting of the brush in the top menu bar.

    ~Bitt

23. tim j, on May 22nd, 2007 at 8:21 pm

    thanks alot. is there any way to bring them into illustrator?

24. BittBox, on May 22nd, 2007 at 8:57 pm

    @tim j

    You could open the png’s in illustrator and then do a Live Trace, but i’m not sure how detailed your results will be.

    ~Bitt

25. Ziptied, on May 23rd, 2007 at 7:54 am

    No worries, just been trying to create a similar effect in PS for a while now with a single tablet stroke to simulate “painting” as close to possible but getting the look of a fiber brush eludes me. :)

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27. Joseph Maguire, on May 26th, 2007 at 9:09 am

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28. StudioDS, on May 26th, 2007 at 3:07 pm

    Big Bad Bboy BOOYA to YA from the DS Crew down here in South Africa…
    Still rockin the skilz!i

29. justme, on May 26th, 2007 at 8:36 pm

    nice resources. keep up the good work bitt.
    your brushes are very helpful. :)
    to others who don’t have the resources to buy paints or brushes. you can simulate the paint stroke efect with the use of other application such as PAINTER X. Brush inside the canvass as crazy as you want, save it as a jpeg file, open in photoshop, then knockout the white pixels. You can use this as a brush or texture.
    Hope this one helps.
    Cheers:)

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31. Blythe, on May 29th, 2007 at 5:31 pm

    oooh gorgeous! Thanks bunches!

32. frank, on June 1st, 2007 at 5:48 am

    bittbox,, i know how you love custom brushes. I do also… I found something you may like in the following link..

    http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/Photoshop-blog/2006/11/17/quick-and-extremely-easy-glowing-lights-photoshop-brushes/

    Its how to make custom brushes with the lens flare filter in photoshop. You may already know all about it. If you do and you happen to have created a few custom brushes yourself. Id sure be curious as to the funky/crazy brushes youve come up with using the lens flare filter :)

    frank

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34. ab5trak, on June 4th, 2007 at 6:59 pm

    this are the best brushes, ever!!!!!!!!!!

35. evul, on June 12th, 2007 at 8:57 am

    hey bitt!
    i discovered your site a few weeks ago and i loved it right away. i started messing around with your amazing photoshop and illustrator brushes and liked them so much, i ended up using them on my latest CD cover design. you can see it here: http://www.evulotis.com/index.php/image/Nadira_Awakening/

    thanks so much for the brushes, fonts, vectors and tips! i know your brushes will be continue to be a part of my design arsenal in the future. i’m really glad i found your site, keep it up :)

36. wyowomanKristin, on June 28th, 2007 at 3:42 pm

    just discovered your site. looking forward to digging around in it more indepth ! thanks

37. Chris, on June 29th, 2007 at 4:20 am

    Thanks so much for sharing your brushes - they look so cool and I know I’ll make good use of them!

38. BG, on June 30th, 2007 at 3:41 am

    The mediafire.com-links don’t work, server is down.

39. JohnB, on July 9th, 2007 at 2:48 am

    Hi. I have PS7. Could you please expand a little on how to get your brushes to work with that version. I don’t know what you mean by “……here are the PNG Source files so you can make your own brushes if you need to, and for all previous Photoshop versions.”

    Thanks for the free offer - they look wonderful.

    Regards.

40. BittBox, on July 11th, 2007 at 10:19 pm

    @evul

    LOVE the CD cover! Thanks and you keep up the good work as well!

    ~Bitt

41. yianni, on July 13th, 2007 at 6:07 am

    The mediafire links don’t seem to work. Any way I can get this? Look amazing.

42. Goldcoin, on July 19th, 2007 at 8:23 am

    HI.. Only have Photoshop 7, so happy you gave us the png pix to make our own. Thank you so much….Coin

43. cpee, on July 19th, 2007 at 6:51 pm

    fantastic (:

44. Mohamed, on July 27th, 2007 at 10:24 am

    very nice st thnx man.

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46. ELY, on August 10th, 2007 at 3:21 pm

    simply awesome!!!
    love ur site =]]

47. almer@online.ee, on August 18th, 2007 at 12:17 pm

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48. valgemaja.ehitus@mail.ee, on August 29th, 2007 at 11:53 pm

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49. info@aksiaal.ee, on September 3rd, 2007 at 10:01 pm

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50. Ramona, on September 6th, 2007 at 2:14 pm

    Thanks so much. These look great!

51. Bruno Casarini, on September 14th, 2007 at 5:51 am

    Mediafire says this download has been removed…

52. BittBox, on September 14th, 2007 at 6:07 am

    I’m going to look into this. If mediafire has removed this file I’ll be really pissed. Sorry for the inconvenience all. I’ll fix this asap.

    ~Bitt

53. BittBox, on September 14th, 2007 at 6:29 am

    OK try it now. Looks like mediafire was just doing a little maintenance or something.

    ~Bitt

54. test, on September 19th, 2007 at 6:40 am

    test bugaga

55. Darwin, on September 21st, 2007 at 3:37 pm

    Sorry, but “Download CS3 Version: (29.2MB)” is not compatible with Photoshop CS3 version.

56. Charlene, on October 1st, 2007 at 6:53 pm

    I get this message when I try to download the CS1 file from Media Fire:

    The file you requested was removed for violating MediaFire’s Terms of Service or Acceptable Use Policy

    Not sure what’s up with that….

57. Deny, on October 1st, 2007 at 8:17 pm

    Yes, the CS1 version seems be down. The png is working though. Any ideas when the CS1 will be back?

58. BittBox, on October 4th, 2007 at 8:17 pm

    MediaFire seems to have it out for me, yet they send no email or reason as to how or why the removed file violates the TOS.
    I’m re-uploading now . . . to my own server this time.

    Sorry about that.

    ~Bitt

59. PJG, on October 19th, 2007 at 9:04 am

    The CS3 download isn’t working :/
    Mediafire claiming that the file doesn’t exist anymore

60. Ognjen Knaus, on October 22nd, 2007 at 11:04 pm

    Lovely brushes!

    The CS3 version is not hosted on media fire anymore.
    Hope this CS1 version will work on CS3 as well.

    Thanks!

61. Karl, on October 30th, 2007 at 12:57 am

    BEAUTIFUL BRUSHES, I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR SOME GOOD, HIGH-QUALITY/RESOLUTION BRUSHES FOR AWHILE NOW. THANK YOU VERY MUCH

62. Hello!, on November 17th, 2007 at 12:07 pm

    Fabulous but the links were removed :(

63. BittBox, on November 18th, 2007 at 12:06 am

    The links are working fine on my end. Can you try refreshing?

    ~Bitt

64. nX07, on November 19th, 2007 at 8:19 pm

    Thank you so much Bitt, you’ve helped me rekindle my design spirit when I came across your site, I was lost in the strings of programming and finally broke free of it again and you sparked my design fire again!

    A question if you will; and if you don’t want to share all the secrets I’ll never hold anything against you. How did you make these high-res brushes? I hope I am not crossing the line, I have no bad intentions, just pure discovery as to how these types of things are done =)

65. nX07, on November 19th, 2007 at 8:22 pm

    Omg I feel so bad I should have flipped thru to the next page with the blunt guide, http://www.bittbox.com/photoshop/how-to-make-a-photoshop-brush/

    Cheers, all the best =)

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67. Sinema izlet, on January 3rd, 2008 at 3:54 pm

    Sorry, but “Download CS3 Version: (29.2MB)” is not compatible with Photoshop CS3 version.

68. Sinema izlet, on January 3rd, 2008 at 3:54 pm

    thank you

69. Sinema izlet, on January 3rd, 2008 at 3:55 pm

    thanks

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72. Eric, on January 13th, 2008 at 12:29 am

    Incredible set of brushes. I’ve been looking for something like this and you’ve managed to meet and exceed what I was hoping to find. Thanks a ton.

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74. Josie, on January 17th, 2008 at 4:49 pm

    thank you, thank you, thank you :-)

75. john papilaya, on January 18th, 2008 at 5:46 am

    thanks a lot….!!!!!!

76. justin, on February 3rd, 2008 at 8:55 pm

    i wish these links worked! they look cool.

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78. zoe, on February 12th, 2008 at 7:20 pm

    its great….tq

79. Joko, on March 10th, 2008 at 8:53 pm

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80. silence, on March 11th, 2008 at 5:31 pm

    great work again.

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82. Don Jordan, on March 12th, 2008 at 9:12 am

    Hi, downloaded the walercolour effects into ps cs3 extended, but when I try to load I get message to say not compatable with this version is there anything you can suggest.

    Regards
    Don

83. BittBox, on March 13th, 2008 at 11:16 am

    @Don,

    I would try the CS1 version.

    ~Bitt

84. mia, on March 13th, 2008 at 1:51 pm

    Sorry but it is impossible to download on iMac

    Do you have any suggestion!

    Please!

    all those tips are wonderful help!

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86. Chris, on March 13th, 2008 at 9:09 pm

    On Imac, if you are using Safari, maybe you will have better luck with Firefox. Mind you, I’m having no trouble with Safari. What about the cookie things? I’ve only recently changed over to iMac so sorry, I can’t help you with them.

87. Chris, on March 13th, 2008 at 9:11 pm

    Just wanted to thank you for the great tutorial and brushes! Really appreciate your time and effort!

88. mia, on March 13th, 2008 at 10:42 pm

    I use Firefox!

    I have the other problem with “erase” tool

    I love to try to make my own brush!
    I read and fallowed Bittibox instructions but

    when I have to include eraser tool it comes problem, I have different boxes on top of PS CS display panel than Bitti explain and shaw no brushes for erase tool only one hard round brush!
    no pix box too

    I try to grab it to shaw you pic of my “situation” but cant do it,
    PS hides, if I try to use grab
    even worse when I click on black layer all fill desappear!
    On the top of eraser tool in left corner shaw star as magic wand, I tray on bottom right corner to see another erase tool but nothing!

    ???????

    Please heeelp!

89. pontazza, on March 14th, 2008 at 9:23 am

    Great deal! thanks a lot!

90. mia, on March 14th, 2008 at 2:30 pm

    I solve problem thanks with eraser!
    Yet just brushes!

    Thanks!

91. giftdee, on March 27th, 2008 at 8:13 am

    i love art brush

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94. JL, on April 17th, 2008 at 11:29 am

    Fantastic! Thanks for these amazing brushes! Keep the good work! :o)

95. wOlff, on May 11th, 2008 at 11:12 pm

    Thanx so much!!!
    great work!!!

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