A set of Photoshop & GIMP brushes composed of various arcane or magic runes. These are all original designs, although some are based off runes and symbols from other sources (alchemy, mythology, etc.).
I’ve gotten numerous questions asking if these have any meaning. Since I made them up, I’m afraid they don’t… but that means that you can assign any meaning to them that you want!
These are the runes used to make our popular Arcane Circles Photoshop & GIMP Brushes.
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: 29
Size: 4.52MB
Download the image pack (for those without Photoshop & GIMP)





10/10 stars !!
You are awesome! THANKS!
I can just see these on a gorgeous drow skin.. I IMVU… do you? Plus I bet they’d make awesome rave tats. I’m a developer for IMVU, and I would like permission to use these brushes in that capacity. Thanks for making and sharing them! über nice!
These are beautiful, as are many of the other brushes here :D
I love your brushes. I just discovered them and they are awesome.
You have created something very good….I have not used the brushes yet but yes when i do,i’ll copy the link for you to check………..
Thanks for sharing your creating ……….there are very few people like you…………
~ Vishal
I don’t know if anyone has said this yet but the symbol you labeled #10 kind of looks like the covenant plasma sword from HALO! :)
I saw that! Lol, I didn’t know if anyone else saw it either
these brushes are awesome thanks for making them i can use them in some photography projects and i will dedicate them to you :D
I downloaded this but the file wouldn’t open — it said it was damaged or something…do you have another link?
I just downloaded it and opened it just fine when I went to check it. Sometimes downloads can get corrupted. Try once again?
If you’re still having trouble, I can email you the file if you like.
Thank you ever so much. I can’t wait to use them.
OMG! They are soo cool! Photoshop just got so much mroe interesting! Love all the designs XD
I am still learning how to be creative and expressive through my art, however I have improved greatly in the past three to four years. You have been such an inspiration as well as the influence that fuels my passion for art. Thanks for the brushes and I hope to show you some of my work in the near future.
WTF? That’s not runes! Did you ever saw Futhark? No? Yeah, i see…
If you’d looked more closely at my stuff, you’d see that I have a full set of Futhark runes, actually. These are runes of the imaginary kind. Made up. Fantasy? ;)
will these work on CS5 Extended cuz that’s all I have.
Yep. They’ll work in all Photoshop versions after 7.
thank thats amazing…
Awesome work of fantasy. Credit given, can I use these runes and art on a commercial product?
Yep. As long as the credit is given right alongside, or within, the product every place that it’s displayed/available. Otherwise, you’ll need a license.
This web site is excelent…. thanck for your great job… is a good work,
they look awesome but i would like to say they dont seem to be working with my photoshop or showing up as the file type that it says on the installation guide thing, is this because my computer is a very early XP vertion? if you could help that would be great :D
It’s not showing up as either a ZIP file or an ABR file? That wouldn’t be your operating system, no. That would possibly mean you downloaded the wrong thing (I also have the image pack, which is just JPGs). If you could give me more specifics, I can try to help.
its strange because iv downloaded a few brush packs and they all seem to do the same thing so i dont think iv downloaded the wrong file. I put the brush files into the foldr with all the other brush files for my photoshop CS5 and they dont seem to show up when i open photoshop.
Are you unzipping them? They should be ABR files once they’re unzipped. If not, that’s the problem. Otherwise, you may have to restart Photoshop, if you’re installing them while it’s open.
Beyond that, there’s NO reason for them not to work. Try choosing “Load Brushes” from the menu where you’d usually select the set, then navigate to the file, and load it that way. See what it says is wrong.
Yay! Thankyou its fixed now :D