38 Building Photoshop Brushes for Urban Designs
Using building Photoshop brushes, especially those that you never really brush but stamp, are quite useful in creating beautiful city scenes and urban backgrounds. So why not start collecting building and city Photoshop brushes? There are tons of free resources out there that are waiting for you to discover them.
Here, we came up with a roundup of what we believe are the 38 best building Photoshop brushes about cities and urban scenes that you may download and use for free in your designs. Most of these building Photoshop brushes are images, both silhouettes, and pictures, of buildings, tall skyscrapers as well as city skylines. Other than buildings, you will also find in this collection images of structures found in urban places such as bridges, traffic lights, lamp posts, even airplanes, and helicopters.
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Below, you will find a number of high-quality brushes featuring building, city landscapes, and skyscrapers. To download the set of building Photoshop brushes that you want, simply click on the title of the entry (in blue text). All these brushes are free to download from the source page. I hope you will find these free resources useful as well.
City Skyline Brushes
This set of high-resolution free building Photoshop brushes consists city skyline of major cities worldwide such as Manhattan, Chicago, Boston, Las Vegas, Seattle, Toronto, Sydney, Shanghai, Dubai, Russia, Hong Kong, and a lot more.
18 Famous Landmark and Building Brushes
This consists clip arts and images of famous landmarks and buildings around the world such as the Taj Mahal in India, the Statue of Liberty in New York, the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Westminster, Torii Gate in Japan, Summer Palace in Beijing, and many more.
12 High-Res Building Brushes
This set consists of 12 high-resolution brushes of various tall buildings. These are not silhouettes so you can use it for painting an urban landscape.
6 Tall Building Brushes
Here is another set of six high-res brushes (almost 2500 pixels each) consisting of tall buildings you can use free in your designs.
Famous City Skylines
Yet, another set of 5 brushes featuring silhouettes of famous city skylines like New York, Los Angeles, and a lot more. Each brush has a resolution of 1000 pixels wide. Each brush also has a label. Just hold your cursor on any brush in the preset manager to know which city each skyline belongs.
600 Building PS Brushes
A set of 60 brushes for Photoshop 7 featuring beautiful buildings, cities, and skyscrapers. Resolution of every brush ranges from 500 to 800 pixels wide.
Old and New Building Brush Pack
These are stamp brushes consisting of both old and modern buildings that you can download for free.
City Brush Pack
This set includes 15 high-quality brushes of buildings and skyscrapers. These brushes are ideal for creating a city landscape or urban background for your designs.
Photoshop Skyline Brushes
Here is another set of 30 brushes with sizes ranging from 40 to 2000 pixels wide. These are compatible with Photoshop CS5.
Cityscape and Skyline Brushes
This set contains various city landscape and skylines in silhouettes that are ideal for creating backgrounds.
City Silhouette Photoshop Brushes
A set of brushes containing 7 free city skyline Photoshop brushes. It includes two abstract retro illustrations. Brush size is above 2400 pixels wide.
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City PS Brushes
This brush set includes silhouettes of city skylines and urban backgrounds made from photos taken in and around Montréal. The set includes 3 skylines, 2 airplanes, St. Joseph’s Oratory, Olympic Stadium, Casino de Montréal, Statue of Athena, and a lot more!
Buildings Brush Set
A set of brushes for Photoshop 7 and later versions featuring silhouettes of buildings, bridges and other urban structures.
City Skylines PS Brushes
Here are 12 brushes consisting of city skylines in medium resolution (500-600 pixels wide).
Urban Landscape Brushes
This pack contains 10 urban and city brushes. Brush size is between 500 and 2000 pixels wide.
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Photoshop City Brushes
This set includes 11 brushes made from pictures of skylines as well as street and traffic lights and signs.
Cityscapes PS Brushes
A pack of 12 brushes useful in creating urban scenes. The set includes images of buildings and skylines in silhouettes as well as an airplane, a chopper, and party scenes.
City Skyline Brushes
This set consists of four city skyline brushes available as ABR file. These are compatible with Photoshop Elements 6 as well.
Futuristic Buildings Brush Set
A set of brushes consisting of landscapes of modern cities around the world. These are great for creating modern backgrounds for projects with construction and travel themes.
Sydney Building Brushes
These brushes feature various photos of buildings and structures in Sydney. The brushes themselves are quite large, with most of them having a resolution of around the 800-900 pixels wide.
Trial Old Building Brushes
This set consists of images of old buildings that you can download for free. They are compatible with Photoshop 7 and up.
City Buildings PS Brushes
Here are some ready-made building silhouette/skyline brushes for quick painting in large areas of background. These are not very detailed but they work for doing areas of city landscape in the distance in backgrounds. The best way to use these brushes is to go to the ‘brushes’ menu, and then click ‘scatter’.
Vector Buildings HQ Brushes
These brushes were made out of vector images of actual buildings and groups of buildings. Included are 9 high-quality images from different points of view, including the skyline of Shanghai, Times Square, and the Chrysler Building.
Skylines Skyscrapers Brushes Set
This set includes four skylines, two skyscrapers and one building for you to download and use for free.
PS Brushes: Buildings Of Paris 001
There are 12 high-res (2500 pixels) building Photoshop brushes in this set that includes Paris Buildings such as Tour Eiffel, Grande Arche, Bazar de L’Hotel de La Ville, La Defense, among others.
Speed Painting Brush Pack
Use these brushes to make speed painting a little easier. These are especially useful for blocking in some background buildings or throwing up some steel structures in your design.
Skyline Brushes Pack: Minneapolis and St. Paul
Includes 4 high-quality brushes (silhouette and photo) of Minneapolis-St. Paul skyline created using photographs. All brushes are between 2300-2400 pixels and work with Photoshop 7 and newer versions.
Miami Skyline Brushes
This set includes 20 brushes composed of images of Miami skyline. All of these brushes are high-resolution (2500 pixels wide). ABR size is over 30MB.
Skyline PS Brushes
This is a set of 6 high resolution building Photoshop brushes created in Photoshop CS5.
Perth City Skyline Brush
City Skyline Brush for Photoshop. Compatible with CS4, CS3, and Below.
Skyline Photoshop Brushes
Four Photoshop brushes with skyline silhouette. Skyline made in Bryce. Up to 2450 px in size.
Skyscraper Brushes
A set of 5 building Photoshop brushes depicting skyscrapers.
London Photoshop Brushes
A set of PS brushes composed of buildings and structures from London. Made with Photoshop CS3.