Free Photoshop Plugin + 10 brushes & Tools for Digital Artists (See Plugin instead)

GrutBrushes Plugin for Photoshop CC 2014/15 — MAC + WIN  (Photoshop CS 5+ users click here)

Free Photoshop Brushes Plugin for Photoshop CC 2014/15
Free Photoshop GrutBrushes Plugin for Photoshop CC

A Photoshop plugin (Photoshop CC) that puts your GrutBrushes into a panel right inside Photoshop!

 

Includes 10 free GrutBrushes tools!

GrutBrushes installed into the GrutBrushes plugin panel
10 brushes and tools GrutBrushes installed into the GrutBrushes plugin panel

 

Get it all!

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Don't Have Photoshop CC? No problem! The brushes work in CS5.5 + (open)
Just the Brushes (Skip the plugin offer)

Including this amazing Oil Impasto brush. Realistic oil painting without any layer effects!

Impasto Oil Photoshop Brush 'Stump Trough'
Impasto Oil Photoshop Brush ‘Stump Trough’

See what else is included


 

Thumbnails For All Your GrutBrushes Tool Presets!

Show thumbnails of your Photoshop toolset presets

Now you can see thumbnails of your GrutBrushes tool presets, just like you can with the ABR brush panel, but better because you can…


…Drag and Drop to Organize your brushes

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Arrange and re-order your GrutBrushes tool presets without using the preset manager[/twocol_one] [twocol_one_last]

Right click for more options
Right click for more options
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 Save and load Custom Sets of GrutBrushes

Save a custom set of Photoshop brushes
Create a set of your favourite GrutBrushes and tools to access them with one click

How to Create and Manage Sets in the GrutBrushes Plugin Panel


Position your GrutBrushes panel wherever you want it

Arrange Brush panel - docked horizontal or vertical flyoutArrange Brush panel - docked horizontal or vertical flyout

Docked, Vertical or horizontal flyout, it’s up to you— Arrange your tools to suit your workflow


Speed up your workflow

paint faster in photoshop by organising your brush tools

Focus on your painting while switching between toolsets effortlessly


 

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 Mix and Match Brush Tool Preset Types

use multiple Photoshop tool types in one panel

Unlike Photoshop’s abr panel you could place an oil brush, a mixer brush and an eraser all in a row. Mix and match toolset types to your heart’s delight.

[/twocol_one] [twocol_one_last]Add or remove brushes from the GrutBrushes Photoshop plugin

Add or remove GrutBrushes directly from the plugin panel[/twocol_one_last]


Hide Brushes you don’t use or need

Show or hide Photoshop brush toolsets you don't use

Keep your panel tidy without deleting brushes. Just hide the ones you don’t need until later.


Install the GrutBrushes via the internet, directly from inside Photoshop!

 

Download and install new brushes directly from your GrutBrushes Account

‘Instant-install’ brushes with one click by using the ‘new’ button in the plugin panel.

Download brushes directly into Photoshop
Members can Download brushes directly into Photoshop

Guests can ‘instant-install’ freebies including the Free Brush of the week directly from inside Photoshop using the GrutBrushes plugin panel. Just click ‘New’ login and navigate to the Free Brush of the week page while in the plugin window.


Get them all!

 

Includes These 10 Free Photoshop Brushes and Tools for Digital Artists

'Mud Slice' Photoshop Pencil
Photoshop Pencil
Photoshop Gouache Brush 'Lanas Mark'
Photoshop Gouache Brush
'Stump Trough' Impasto Oil Photoshop Brush for digital artists
Oil Impasto Photoshop Brush
'Short Notice' Photoshop Charcoal Brush
Photoshop Charcoal Brush
Cherry Pectin Photoshop watercolor brush for digital painters
Photoshop watercolor brush
'Hatch Cranny' Photoshop Cross Hatching Brush
Cross Hatching Brush
Photoshop Mixer Brush toolset 'Platt Nudge'
Photoshop Mixer Brush toolset ‘Platt Nudge’
A sharp edged eraser tool preset to replace Photoshop's default eraser.
Sharp edged eraser tool
Photoshop graph paper maker tool
Photoshop graph paper maker tool
Square crop tool for Photoshop
Square Crop Preset

Download to use in the GrutBrushes toolset panel (Photoshop CC  or use them on their own in Photoshop’s Tool Preset panel (CS 6+)

GrutBrushes installed into the GrutBrushes plugin panel
Sampler brushes and tools installed into the GrutBrushes plugin panel

[threecol_one]'Mud Slice' Photoshop Pencil brush

‘Mud Slice’ Photoshop Pencil
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Actual brush stroke of the Mud Slice Photoshop pencil

Actual brush stroke of the Mud Slice Photoshop pencil

A standard soft Artist’s pencil for Photoshop. Equivalent to a 3B graphite pencil. Versatile enough for light sketch lines with a light touch but it gives way to a dark rich line with not too much extra pressure on the Stylus.

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[threecol_one]'Lana's Mark' Photoshop Gouache Brush

‘Lana’s Mark’ Photoshop Gouache Brush
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Painted with Lana's Mark Photoshop Gouache brush

Brush stroke painted with Lana’s Mark Photoshop Gouache Brush

A semi-dry yet creamy finished gouache brush with a very even opacity distribution, ramping up smoothly from transparent to opaque, this natural medium fibered brush has an easily controllable flow and even tapering making it versatile as both a fill and a drawing brush.

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Also includes these special use Tool Presets

[threecol_one]'Stump Trough' Impasto Oil Photoshop Brush for digital artists

‘Stump Trough’ Photoshop Impasto Oil Brush
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Actual brush stroke of the Mud Slice Photoshop pencil

“Stump Trough” Photoshop Impasto Oil Brush stroke

A textured oil impasto Photoshop brush from the GrutBrushes Oil Impasto Photoshop brush Series, unique in that it has a natural depth to it without needing any layer styles or effects. This type of oil impasto Photoshop brush originated on GrutBrushes.com

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[threecol_one]'Short Notice' Photoshop Charcoal Brush

‘Short Notice’ Photoshop Charcoal Brush
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Actual brush stroke of the 'Short Notice' Photoshop charcoal brush

 brush stroke of the Short Notice Photoshop Charcoal Brush

A crispy Photoshop charcoal brush with variable sized grain. This brush has a fairly wide range from fine powder to medium sized chunks of carbon.

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[threecol_one]'Cherry Pectin' Photoshop Watercolor Brush

‘Cherry Pectin’ Photoshop Watercolour Brush
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Actual brush stroke of the Mud Slice Photoshop pencil

brush stroke of the Cherry Pectin Photoshop Watercolor Brush

A textured oil impasto Photoshop brush from the Waters  01 and 02 Series that has a natural 3d depth to it without using any layer styles or effects. This type of impasto brush is a GrutBrushes original creation.

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[threecol_one]'Hatch Cranny' Photoshop Cross Hatch Brush

‘Hatch Cranny’ Photoshop Cross Hatching Brush
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brush stroke of the Hatch Cranny Photoshop Cross Hatch brush

Hatch Cranny Photoshop Cross Hatching brush strokes

A delicate cross hatching brush with a variable opacity as well as size.

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Also includes these three special use Tool Presets

[threecol_one]'Platt Nudge' Photoshop Mixer Brush

‘Platt Nudge’ Photoshop Mixer Brush
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Blending with the Platt Nudge mixer brush

Blending with the Platt Nudge mixer brush

A chunky, organic Photoshop mixer brush that blends and shifts pigment with a slight chip and chisel like splattering.

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[threecol_one]'Sharp Eraser' Photoshop Eraser Tool

‘Sharp Eraser’ Photoshop Eraser Tool
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Erasing with the GrutBrushes Sharp Eraser tool

Comparison between Photoshop and GrutBrushes Eraser Tools

Photoshop’s default eraser, has a soft edge, even with the hardness set at 100%.  GrutBrushes Sharp Eraser is an eraser tool for Photoshop that gives you a sharp, but still ever so slightly anti-aliased edge that is crisper than Photoshop’s much softer default eraser.

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[threecol_one]'Graph Paper 40' Photoshop graph paper tool

‘Graph Paper’ Photoshop Fill Tool
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Turn any paper texture into graph paper

This graph paper tool preset will quickly fill a blank layer with a graph texture grid. Apply it to an empty layer and any paper (or other) texture below it will be instantly turned into graph paper. Not simply a flat grid of blue lines, this grid texture has an organic, print-like texture for a more integrated appearance.

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[threecol_one]'Graph Paper 40' Photoshop graph paper tool

‘Square Crop’ Photoshop Crop Tool Preset
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Photoshop square crop tool preset - good for instagram

This preset quickly sets the crop tool with a Square 1:1 ratio

If you frequently need to crop a lot of images to a square 1:1 ratio format, (for instagram for example) add this preset to your GrutBrushes Tool Panel for quick access. This simply selects the Crop tool and restricts it to a perfect square (width to height ratio of 1 to 1) to quickly trim the edges off your rectangular pictures.

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Get them all!

[box type=”info”]If you have any older GrutBrushes but don’t have the icons for the plugin, you can download them here[/box]