This comes from several requests that I’ve gotten in the last few months. Some of you will know what bokeh is, and some may not. But ALL of you have seen it at one point or another, as long as you look at photographs or watch movies. Check out the preview image below for a visual example.
Bokeh is a Japanese term used in photography. It is used to describe the qualities of the area of a photo that is out of focus, and is used to help draw your eye to the subject of the photograph. Some pretty cool things happen with bokeh, too, and that’s what these brushes will help you to create. Also, keep your eye out for a bokeh tutorial that I’ll be coming out with, hopefully in a few days.
This set of Photoshop & GIMP brushes is composed of various bokeh designs. It comes with several brushes for painting your own bokeh, as well as some that are already put together into scattered groups like the ones you see in my preview image. Some are circles, some are polygons, some are more blurry than others. They are all high resolution, with an average size of about 2000 pixels.
Programs: Photoshop 7+, Photoshop Elements 2+, Gimp 2.2.6+
Brushes: 28
Size: 10.6MB
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69 Responses to “Bokeh Photoshop & GIMP Brushes”
Awesome brush! I have been looking everywhere for one of these! Thank you! :D
Can’t wait for the tutorial!!
Thank you! My camera does not do bokeh and I usually try to do it with blur. Cannot wait for the tutorial on how to use these to achieve the same effect.
Awesome!! Been scouring high and low for these…have some I bought, but I can already see that yours (as usual) are far better…
Thank you so much. These are oh so cool.
A B.I.G. Thank-You ~ I look forward to the Tutorial.
Wonderful! Thank you very much.
Thanks a lot!
Fantastic……many thanks, Stephanie! I’m so glad you’re writing a tutorial…..
… as always, you amaze me with your talent. Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Thanks Stephanie, this is so great
Thank you for the fabulous brushes – LOVE them!
What a help these will be! Many thanks!
How cool are these? I cannot wait to give them a try…would never though of trying to turn bokeh into a brush.
Thanks for sharing your hard work.
Thank you so much, those are wonderful and new to me. Happy lo learn something new everyday.
I’m learning something new. I look forward to the tutorial, myself. I’ll have to go read about this. I’m eager to try to new things. Thank you!
Su
This set looks like it could be very interesting and fun to use. Thanks!
yaay! finally you make the bokeh brushes! thank you a lot! :D
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Awesome! Thank you so much! Bokeh is cute and fun!
WONDERFUL!! Thank you so much for sharing! you are an AMAZING designer!! Have a safe & Happy Memorial day! :)
??? I don’t know how to use these…
Then follow the links in my sidebar under “Getting Started”, which explain how to unzip the file, then how to install and use the brushes.
Good luck!
(If you know how to use brushes, but not THESE brushes, check under my tutorials section for my tutorial on Bokeh)
When I try to download these, it says ID doesn’t exist or ID not found. Is the file not there anymore?
@Mizuki: It is, but there’s an error with one of my scripts. fixing it now, please check back in a few mins!
thanks so much for sharing
Thank you sooo much for sharing your beautiful brushes. A big hug to you!
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thank you so much for sharing,,it’ so useful for me
These are wonderful – thank you so much!
Thank you so much, I can’t wait to try them.
Thank you so much!
Love, Jeanne
Thanks for sharing :)
Best wishes:)))
OMG thank you!! I have always envied my friends because they use thsi brush and I never know where to find it
OMG thank you!! I have always envied my friends because they use this brush and I never know where to find it
looks magical :D very excited cant wait till i try it ..thank u
its fabulos BIG THANK
Never seen anything like this…!! Great!
thank you very much , this is exactly brush i looking for long time
Ty im learing how to use the photoshop
and now i havethe bokeh brush(L) Ty again
wish me luck ;*
these are brilliant. Thankyou
AWESOME !!!! thanks for sharing…….now there’s no need any TUTORAIL
Fabulous, thanks for sharing!
I can’t wait to use these!!!
Thank you for all the brushes you have contributed.
It doesn’t work!! I use Gimp 2.6,, and how to you dowload? I just click “save” and copy it to my gimp map. But no brushes (new,,) are there. Can someone help me? :S
@Amanda: Check out “Installing Brushes” in my sidebar, that’ll hopefully help you out. Other than that, I’m not a GIMP user at all so I’ve no idea! However, if you have problems beyond that, check the comments on that tutorial – several people have left comments in the past for helping out GIMP users.
Good luck!
You’re the best… I’ve been looking for this since forever…
My only source for brushed!…
Thanks
Your Brushes are really fantastic. I will be using them in a Photoshop tutorial which will link back to you. Thank ou for the Brushes. It saves a lot of time. Pradip Chowdhury
what are the colours you used in the example picture? if you could reply with the code that would be great. (:
i downloaded this pack and it said there were 28 brushes. so far i’ve only seen two and everytime i switch brushes and return to choose the bokeh brush it isn’t there :(
i use a mac and photoshop elements 8. do you have any idea what’s going on? and also, is there a specific category that i should find these brushes in? the two bokeh brushes i see can only be found in the assorted brushes category.
@radii: These will be under their own name. It sounds like the brushes you’re looking at are the wrong ones. Check my “Installing Brushes” tutorial (in my sidebar), to help figure out how to load them and whatnot. That should help. Let me know if you have any more trouble!
ahhh i did it :D
i just got all excited to try them out. thanks for all these great things and for the help!
Thank you very much: )
Even if my lens can create bokeh,as you know,its not always possible to take photos handheld and create bokehs!
i love this site …
:D
You are awesome! THANKS!
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I can’t find your rules for use anywhere? Are they in the ZIP package?
@Phuphoung: They are. And they’re also in my sidebar, under “Terms of Use” :)
Hey thanks for these brushes, they are so great! :) but i have a question..do you know how to make the bokeh brighter and a bit blurrier (so it looks like there are bright twinkle lights behind the subject) around the edges? thank you!! ^_^
@olivia: Well, to make them brighter you could just double click with your mouse when using the brush instead of single clicking. Or, duplicate the layer a few times afterwards.
To blur them up a bit more, you’ll want to use a gaussian blur (filters > blur > gaussian blur) and adjust the slider to be as blurry as you want them to be.
Hope this helps!
Very cool. I was just reading the 123RF blog on bokeh and thought “why create the brush, someone’s probably already done it.” Sure enough…
Thank you for this valuable resource!
Ansel
what a stumble! thanks so much @obsidiandawn! just what’s needed to make my newsletter pop! dankie!
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