30 Free Lightning Photoshop Brushes of High-Quality
Lightning is a beautiful but deadly natural phenomenon. In design, lightning can instantly create a dramatic effect. Painting a stormy sky can be best enhanced by adding images of lightning bolts. One of the easiest to do this is through the use of Photoshop brushes. If you still do not know, there are actually a lot of free lightning Photoshop brushes that you can use for free in your designs. In this post, we are featuring a total of 30 sets of brushes consisting of hundreds of images of lightning strikes and thunderstorms with lightning that you can use for free.
30 LIGHTNING PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES TO DOWNLOAD FREE
To get the set that you want, simply click on the preview image and it will open a new window where you can download the brushes. You can also find the terms of use for each brush set from the author’s page.
01-13 Lightning Background Brushes
Create an electrifying scene in Photoshop using this set of free lightning background brushes. The lightning bolts that you will find in this set are vivid ones and almost spooky.
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02-Lightning Bolt Brushes
Here are some lightning bolts made with Photoshop CS3. The set contains 26 brushes in high-resolution format. Each brush has a size of around 900-2500 pixels.
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03-Realistic Lightning Brushes
There are 40 high-resolution Photoshop brushes in this set for creating realistic lightning effects in your artwork. These brushes are compatible with Photoshop CS3.
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04-Lightning Brushes Preset
This set of brushes are mostly lightning bolts. For best results, experiment with the layer blending modes. There are also excess edges but you can easily remove them using a soft brush.
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05-MB-eLightning
This pack of brushes includes 55 decorative electric effects that you may use with Photoshop CS2 and newer. These are free for both personal and commercial use.
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06-Lightning High-Res Brushes
There are 5 lightning brushes for Photoshop CS2 and higher. Size of each brush is around 840 – 1200 pixels.
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07-15 Lightning Photoshop Brushes for Creating Seamless Effects
Here is a high-resolution set of lightning Photoshop brushes you can use for creating some realistic lightning strikes and bolts effects in your background design or if you simply want to add some real sparks in your layout. You may use them individually or you may also overlap one with another lightning Photoshop brush to make it more interesting.
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08-Lightning Brushes
There are 11 brushes in this set created in Adobe Photoshop CS2.
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09-Lightning Brushes
These lightning brushes are a bit different from other lightning brushes because these stand alone from clouds or other structures and are quite big. For Photoshop versions 7+.
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10-Lightning Brushes
This set is composed of 18 brushes in .abr format made for Photoshop CS. There is only one of the brushes was used in the preview image.
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11-Lightning Brushes 03
There are 10 lightning brushes in this set that you can play within your Photoshop.
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12-Lightning Photoshop Brushes
A set of 24 brushes made up of various shapes of lightning bolts. Compatible with Photoshop 7 and higher as well as Photoshop Elements 2 and up and GIMP 2.2.6 and later versions.
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13-Lightning II Brushes
A set of 26 Photoshop brushes made up of various shapes of lightning bolts. These were created from scratch using original designs. Includes single bolts, which you could use on their own. You can also put together these brushes to create your own forking bolts. Also includes groupings of bolts already put together. These are all extremely high resolution, with the average size being about 2200 pixels.
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14-Lightning Brushes
There are 11 brushes created with Photoshop CS3.
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15-Lightning Brush Set
There are 16 brushes made in Photoshop CS in this pack. Only 9-10 brushes were used in the preview image below.
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16-Lightning Brushes
These lightning brushes are compatible with Photoshop 7 and higher versions.
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17-Lightning PS Brushes
Here is another set of lightning Photoshop brushes. Compatible with Photoshop 7 and up.
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18-Lightning Pack
This set includes a range of lightning brushes useful for creating photo effects and manipulations.
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19-Lightning Brush Pack
The preview does not do the brushes justice. There are about 45 brushes in all.
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20-Lightning brush Set
The authors made use of filters in making these lightning brushes. For best results, try playing with the various setting and blend modes in Photoshop.
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21-Lightning PS Brush Set
This pack of seven high-resolution lightning brushes is great for photo manipulations and digital paintings.
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22-11 Free Lightning Brushes
This pack of free brushes features 11 brushes that are compatible with Photoshop CS3.
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23-Lightning Brush Set 1
Another set of 9 lightning brushes for Photoshop CS2.
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24-11 Fury Lightning Brushes
This set contains 11 brushes.
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25-5 Lightning PS Brushes
There are 5 lightning brushes in this set that work in Photoshop 7 and up as well as Photoshop Elements 2 and later versions.
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26-Lightning Bolts
This set contains 13 different Lightning Bolts for your stormy backgrounds and whatever else you can think of.
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27-Lightning brushes Vol. 2
There are 7 lightning brushes in this set compatible with Photoshop CS2 and higher. Size of each brush is around 1120-1540 pixels.
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28-Lightning Brushes Photoshop
There are 19 brushes in this set with resolutions of around 600 to 1800 pixels.
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29-Ray Brushes
There are two ray brushes in this set of good quality that you can use for free.
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30-Lightning Brushes
A pack of high quality brushes for creating effects in Photoshop.
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