21 Sparkling Background Photoshop Brushes
The possibilities are endless when you are working with light effects in Photoshop. A great and easy way to add lighting effects and sparkling backgrounds in your designs is through the use of Photoshop brushes. Today, we rounded up 21 sets of brushes for creating sparkling background designs. You can use these brushes to add sparkles of light, glows, add stars to a dark sky. You can also use brushes to add sparkles to a fire. These sparkling background brushes are also great for layering where you can create more effects by playing with blending modes. These are especially useful for magical and fantasy-themed designs.
For more resources for creating sparkling background designs, visit our related post about Star Photoshop Brushes.
SPARKLING BACKGROUND BRUSHES FROM AROUND THE WEB
There are 21 sets of high-quality brushes in this set. Most of these brushes are free for non-commercial purposes. As in any freebies, make sure to check the terms of use set by the individual authors or creators when using these brushes for your artworks, especially if you intend to sell them or exhibit them somewhere. We suggest that even if authors do not require to credit them in your work, it is always a nice gesture to give credit where credit is due.
SPACE KIDS’ SPARKLE BRUSHES
A huge set of sparkle brushes grouped into a stamp, scatter and large brushes. These brushes are ready-to-use so you can paint super sparkly glittery designs with ease. Stamp brushes make it easy for you to tap individual sparkles without it blurring accidentally while scatter brushes allow you to paint a bunch of stars randomly. Large brushes as the name suggests are for painting big-sized sparkles. All brushes have a maximum resolution of 2500px.
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SPARKLE BRUSHES
A set of six free sparkle brushes at a maximum resolution of 2500px.
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FREE MAGIC BRUSHES
This set includes 25 high-resolution brushes you can use to add sparkle and star streak effects in your designs.
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SPARKLES PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES
A set of beautiful sparkle brushes from Coby. These are great for adding realistic glitters in your layout.
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Glitters and Sparkles Brushes HQ
Here is another set of glittery and sparkling brushes for Photoshop CS6 from Coby. These are useful for creating fantasy-themed designs.
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SPARKLES BRUSHES
Here are another 10 sparkles brushes for Photoshop. The brushes are high-quality and very useful for adding lighting and glitter effects in your designs.
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SPARKLES BRUSHES
Here is another set of starry, sparkly, glittery brushes for creating magical backgrounds.
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SNOW DUST SPARKLE BRUSHES
A set of 10 snow dust glitter brushes in high-resolution format. Also includes an image pack of the brushes in PNG format.
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BUBBLES, GLITTERS, SPARKLES PS BRUSHES
A high-quality set of sparkle brushes composed of bubbles and glitters for creating interesting backgrounds and special effects in your designs.
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DIGITAL TECHNO GLITTERS
A set of 19 Sparkly futuristic brushes.
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SILVER SPARKLE BRUSHES
A set of 8 sparkle brushes composed of 4 with glow and 4 without glow as shown in the preview below.
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FREE GLOW PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES
There are 11 big brushes made with Photoshop 7.0 in this set. each brush has a resolution of 2500px.
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SPARKLE BRUSHES BY GFX
A set of 10 bursting sparkle brushes for painting glowing backgrounds in Photoshop.
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SHINY SPARKLE BRUSHES
There are 15 shiny brushes in this set that you can download for free.
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30 SPARKLE BRUSHES FOR CS4
There are 30 brushes in this set created in Adobe Photoshop CS4 using altered emitters from Particle Illusion 3.0.
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SCATTER SPARKLE BRUSHES
There are over 20 scatter brushes in this set and only three are shown in the preview.
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SHINE ON SPARKLE BRUSHES
These brushes have pixie fairy dust effect. Use them to create a subtle yet dreamy glitter effect in your designs.
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SPARKLES PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES
A set of 29 Photoshop brushes made up of various sparkles, glows, glitters… whatever you want to call them.
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GLITTER PLUS SPARKLE BRUSHES
A set of 28 Brushes composed of glitter and sparkles of all kinds! There are several brushes that include just glitter and sparkles, that can be easily overlapped to make as much glitter as you could ever want or need. There are also several misty, swirly, brushes in various designs, some glitter in the shape of various swirls, some heart-shaped glitter, snowflake-shaped glitter, a few fireworks/explosive shapes, and much more! Also includes several glitter shapes on their own, so that you can accent and make up your own glitter designs.
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GLITTER II BRUSHES
A set of 38 Photoshop and Gimp brushes composed of various glitter and sparkles designs. These are all high resolution, with the average size being about 1500 pixels.
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10 HQ SPARKLE BACKGROUND BRUSHES
There are 10 high-quality sparkles background brushes that you can use for creating sparkling backgrounds in Photoshop.
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