Over 300 Free Photoshop Vintage Brushes to Collect
Free vintage Photoshop brushes can help you save time and at the same time money in creating awesome retro-looking designs in Photoshop. It is not true that retro or vintage designs are outdated and unattractive. Designers can actually come up with a design that is both usable and decorative using successful and representative styles from the past. Vintage art has been very successful because it has a wider reach since it is being appreciated by both the young generation and those who were lucky enough to experience living in the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s. Vintage designs also create a feeling of nostalgic and bring back memories from the near past.
Using retro/vintage or “old” style can also make any design very unique and appealing. That is why we see more and more designers using this element in designing websites both corporate and for personal blogs or portfolio and even for print materials.
300+ FREE VINTAGE PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES TO DOWNLOAD
So why not start using the vintage or retro look in your designs as well? To help you get started, here, I am posting some free but very useful and high-resolution sets of vintage Photoshop brushes. From circles to stars to vintage appliances, there are plenty of images to choose from in this roundup. I hope you will find something that can be of use to you.
(In case, you need a tutorial on how to install brushes in your Photoshop program, check out first our tutorial on how to install brushes in Photoshop 7+)
Retro Paisley Photoshop CS+ Brushes
Our own contribution to this collection of vintage Photoshop brushes is a set of 16 retro paisley designs. Paisley has been making a big comeback so we are sure that you will find many uses for these brushes. This set consists of ultra high-resolution paisley and flourishes as well as retro circles, swirls, stars, etc. These brushes were created using vector images, making these paisley brushes suitable even for high-resolution or large-printing designs.
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23 Retro People (Women) Photoshop Brushes
A set of 22 high-resolution images of people wearing retro-style fashion and hairstyles. These vintage Photoshop brushes were created in Photoshop CS3 and should work with any CS versions of Photoshop. The resolution of each Photoshop brush is also set at around 2500 pixels.
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20 Retro People (Men) Photoshop Brushes
If you liked the previous set of vintage women images, then you should have a close at this set too. This vintage Photoshop brush set consists of 20 images of men wearing retro fashion and hairstyle. They are high-resolution as well and are suitable even for high-res materials you are planning to produce.
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Retro Stars and Arrows Photoshop Brushes
This set contains 9 high-resolution retro stars Photoshop brushes created using vectors. You can use each of them as the main element of your design or create interesting background designs. There are also some brushes that can stand alone as a template for a card or poster, all you need to do is add your text to customize them.
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Retro Coca-Cola Poster Photoshop Brushes
A set of vintage Photoshop brushes featuring old posters of Coca-Cola. These are great for adding some vintage vibe in your work.
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40 Retro Dynamic Brushes
This set has 240 dynamically generating vintage images that are mostly circular. The brush set is free to use for personal projects and compatible with Adobe Photoshop CS and higher versions.
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Retro Vectors Brushes
This set is composed of different retro-styled vectors, including halftones, circles, squares, diamonds, wavy lines, and many more. All images are high resolution, with the average size being approximately 1800 pixels. These vintage brushes are compatible with Photoshop 7 and newer versions, Elements 2 and later versions, and GIMP 2.2.6+
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US Military Ranks Brushes 1
There are 34 free vintage Photoshop brushes in this set which includes the different United States military ranks: Army, Air Force, Coast Guard, Marines, and Navy. Please read the text file included in the zipped download folder to find out what brush corresponds to what rank. These are all high resolution with the average size being 1850 pixels.
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Vintage Paper Brushes
A set of ultra high-resolution Photoshop brushes composed of scanned/photographed vintage papers that you can use as background in your designs. These brushes are ideal for achieving retro or faded look in your layout or artwork.
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Scrapping Cop Funky Retro Circles
This set includes some really big funky circles and several small little circles. The total file size is 9.3 MB. Free for personal use.
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Magno
This brush set is made out of different materials including old technical books and old tape recorder.
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Retro Frames
Includes 9 vintage images of different frames in various shapes that you could use to give your photos a retro feel and look. Since this set is made with Photoshop CS3, an image pack is included just in case you are using an older version of the program.
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That ’70s girl
The pack includes 10 different images of girls from the 70s era. This set is intended for Photoshop 7 and should also work with newer versions of the program. In case you want to use this with an older Photoshop version and these brushes don’t work for you or if you are using different software, then check out the image pack included in the zipped download folder.
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Vintage Models
The pack includes 11 different images of women wearing 70s fashion. This set is intended for Photoshop 7 and should also work with newer versions of the program. In case you want to use this with an older Photoshop version and these brushes don’t work for you or if you are using different software, then check out the image pack included in the zipped download folder.
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Retro Dots
This set includes nine (9) high-resolution vintage images of things like banners, wallpaper, signatures, among others. The archived pack that you can download for free includes the .abr brush file and a folder containing the image in PNG of each brush. You may use the images instead if you are using Photoshop version that’s lower than version 7.
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Retro Brushes
This brush set was created using Photoshop Elements 2. The brush pack includes 40 brushes, with a file size of 8.3 MB. Free for personal use.
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24 Retro Cartoon Photoshop Brushes
A set of retro cartoon Photoshop brushes composed of retro cartoon clip arts. Images in this set include cars and other stuff from the ’70s and 80s, drawing of men and women wearing retro clothes and hairstyle.
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Retro Brushes: People Cartoon
This set contains 17 retro images mostly about money that you can use for your designs for free such as a little gallery of retro images mostly about money, but you’ll find some brushes about pin-up, celebration and dance. These brushes are compatible to use with Photoshop CS and later versions of Photoshop.
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Retro Brushes: Circles
These were created using Photoshop CS2. Total file size of the Photoshop brushes is 1.9 MB. Make sure you read the terms of use first before using these brushes. 🙂
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Wallpaper Sized Brushes No.09
This set contains high-resolution intended for making wallpapers and created using Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0. The zipped download folder includes the Photoshop brush file (.abr) and also includes an image-pack(JPEG) Size. The total file size is 2.2 MB.
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Old Signs
This set includes 10 brushes created using images of old signage such as road signs, car wash signs, motel signs, etc.
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Retro Pin-Up Girls (45 Brushes)
A collection of 45 brushes featuring some of the loveliest ladies ever created.
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Old Stamps PS Brushes
This set includes 80 stamp brushes made from real stamps. An image pack is also included in case you are using a lower version of Photoshop or another program.
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Old Essentials Brushes
This set includes various stuff such as old Polaroid images and photos, stickers, stamps, labels, scraps of paper, tickets, an old postcard from the 50s, etc. that you can use for scrapbooks and other design projects.
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Vintage Grunge
This set includes vintage images of Coca-Cola, Purina, and other brand names from the past.
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Finally, check out also our earlier post if you need more retro design resources such as fonts and patterns that you can use for free.
