Arcane Circles Photoshop & GIMP Brushes

A set of Photoshop & GIMP brushes composed of various arcane circles and symbols. These are all original designs, but some are based off alchemical, mythological, etc. designs. These should have numerous uses in fantasy or anywhere you need a cool runed symbol!

Be sure to check out our Arcane Runes Photoshop & GIMP Brushes, which were used to create this set!

Tip: Apply an outer glow to these using a strong, bright color to make them look like they’re glowing like in my preview image!

Programs: Photoshop 7+, Photoshop Elements 2+, Gimp 2.2.6+
Brushes: 23
Size: 4.28MB

Download the image pack (for those without Photoshop & GIMP)

Glow Tip:
for Photoshop:

• start with a dark background
• make a new layer (SHIFT + CTRL + N for PC) (SHIFT + CMD + N for Mac)
• select the brush in this set that you’d like to use
• making sure white is your foreground color, click somewhere on the canvas to use the brush
• click on the “Add a Layer Style” button at the bottom left of your layers palette (or choose Layer > Layer Style from the main menu) and then choose Outer Glow
• set the blend mode to “Normal” and choose a strong, saturated color (bright red would work well, light pink would not)
• play with the “Size” slider until it looks how you want it, and then hit OK

for GIMP: (and a big thank you to Mus, who contributed this explanation!)
(Ok, I’ve just randomly experimented and finally knew how to make an “outer glow” for the GIMP users. To make the glow like seen in Stephanie’s preview picture, with GIMP opened, first select which design you want, next, go under menu; Filters/Edge-Detect/Difference of Gaussians.

Next, a pop-up window will appear. At first, you will notice that the preview window shows your image with inverted-colours. Do not worry, it will not affect the resulting image, yes by the way, let all boxes be checked initially except “invert”. After that, make sure the ‘chain’ under “Smoothing Parameters” is ‘broken’, then set “Radius 1″ to zero or as low as possible. Then set “Radius 2″ to a value that you like as seen in the preview image. I personally like the value “0″ for “Radius 1″, and “9.20″ for “Radius 2″. After you’re done, CHECK the box “invert” and press “ok”. Hopefully, you will get the outer glow effect that you desire.

P.S. I’ve noticed that some Rune characters/circles have this weird distorted color like you see in a cracked LCD screen especially with a “Scale: 1″ size after you did the above method. One way of removing this is to uncheck “Normalize”. If you get nothing or your image is totally erased, redo it by increasing (trial, i’ve done it with these values. Its up to you to customize it to make it better) “Radius 2″ value to around “30″ and “Radius 1″ value to “20 or 10″, with “Normalize” unchecked.

If it still doesnt help…just erase them off slowly.

Hope I’ve been a great help for you guys out there!