Apr 28 2009

Bokeh Photoshop & GIMP Brushes

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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.

Bokeh Brushes

Programs: Photoshop 7+, Photoshop Elements 2+, Gimp 2.2.6+
Brushes: 28
Size: 10.6MB

 

>> Download the brushes
>> Download the image pack

Please read my terms of use before downloading!

47 Responses to “Bokeh Photoshop & GIMP Brushes”

  1. Lily

    Awesome brush! I have been looking everywhere for one of these! Thank you! :D

  2. Rachel

    Can’t wait for the tutorial!!

  3. 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.

  4. Awesome!! Been scouring high and low for these…have some I bought, but I can already see that yours (as usual) are far better…

  5. susanna

    Thank you so much. These are oh so cool.

  6. A B.I.G. Thank-You ~ I look forward to the Tutorial.

  7. belle

    Wonderful! Thank you very much.

  8. JoyceB

    Fantastic……many thanks, Stephanie! I’m so glad you’re writing a tutorial…..

  9. … as always, you amaze me with your talent. Thank you.

  10. Edna B

    Thank you so much.

  11. Thanks Stephanie, this is so great

  12. Gail

    Thank you for the fabulous brushes – LOVE them!

  13. What a help these will be! Many thanks!

  14. Traci

    How cool are these? I cannot wait to give them a try…would never though of trying to turn bokeh into a brush.

  15. Chris

    Thanks for sharing your hard work.

  16. grandma

    Thank you so much, those are wonderful and new to me. Happy lo learn something new everyday.

  17. 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

  18. This set looks like it could be very interesting and fun to use. Thanks!

  19. Faith

    yaay! finally you make the bokeh brushes! thank you a lot! :D

  20. wed tiếng anh kho’ nghiên cứu kinh khủng ……………………….:(

  21. Michelle

    Awesome! Thank you so much! Bokeh is cute and fun!

  22. WONDERFUL!! Thank you so much for sharing! you are an AMAZING designer!! Have a safe & Happy Memorial day! :)

  23. Amu Hinamori

    ??? I don’t know how to use these…

  24. 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)

  25. Mizuki

    When I try to download these, it says ID doesn’t exist or ID not found. Is the file not there anymore?

  26. @Mizuki: It is, but there’s an error with one of my scripts. fixing it now, please check back in a few mins!

  27. Yanti

    thanks so much for sharing

  28. Thank you sooo much for sharing your beautiful brushes. A big hug to you!

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  30. thank you so much for sharing,,it’ so useful for me

  31. Sandy_in_MD

    These are wonderful – thank you so much!

  32. Bedie

    Thank you so much, I can’t wait to try them.

  33. Jeanne

    Thank you so much!

    Love, Jeanne

  34. Pati

    Thanks for sharing :)
    Best wishes:)))

  35. OMG thank you!! I have always envied my friends because they use thsi brush and I never know where to find it

  36. OMG thank you!! I have always envied my friends because they use this brush and I never know where to find it

  37. Jaz

    looks magical :D very excited cant wait till i try it ..thank u

  38. cnc

    its fabulos BIG THANK

  39. Never seen anything like this…!! Great!

  40. Danny Hoang

    thank you very much , this is exactly brush i looking for long time

  41. sara

    Ty im learing how to use the photoshop
    and now i havethe bokeh brush(L) Ty again
    wish me luck ;*

  42. themissus

    these are brilliant. Thankyou

  43. shararat

    AWESOME !!!! thanks for sharing…….now there’s no need any TUTORAIL

  44. MamaVanTwee

    Fabulous, thanks for sharing!

  45. Amanda

    I can’t wait to use these!!!

  46. Harriett

    Thank you for all the brushes you have contributed.

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