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.

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.

Be sure to check out our Creating Faux Bokeh Backgrounds in Photoshop Tutorial.

Bokeh Brushes

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

Bokeh Brushes
How to Install?
Terms of Use
 

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

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105 Responses to Bokeh Photoshop & GIMP Brushes

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  4. Ly Hon says:

    i have got a question: is it free?

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  6. stephanie says:

    i love these brushes

  7. Janine says:

    hii,

    Thanks, I got it! , it’s new to me .
    how do brushes transparent in gimp ?

    grtz Janine

  8. Jan says:

    Thxs very much for this cool Stuff !

  9. adri says:

    nice stuff, thx a lot!

  10. Henry says:

    nice brushes. thanks for this cool stuff

  11. grambie says:

    Thank you for these wonderful bokeh brushes that I will use in layouts for my daughter in marriage. She is Japanese, and I’m trying to respect her heritage within my layouts that will also include my youngest set of grandchildren.

  12. kelly says:

    how do you download it? i feel stupid but i don’t see a download button…

  13. torres says:

    it’s very cool,thanks

  14. Steve says:

    Many thanks for this buddy! Nice work.

  15. Mizuki says:

    Thank you for these brushes! Been looking for some brokeh brushes for awhile .

  16. Christine says:

    Really, really cool! Thanks so much!

  17. danibryan says:

    HOW DOES IT GET INTO THE BRUSHES IN THE GIMP PROGRAM?? NOT WORKING WITH ME!!

  18. Shakhi says:

    Wht this brushes not working with Gimp 2.6???????pls help

    • Stephanie says:

      Truthfully, I’m not sure if they work 100% correctly with GIMP. These brushes are made to scatter around, and I don’t even know if GIMP has that capability.

      You can still download the image pack and get the basic images to make into brushes, though. I just don’t know if you can get them to scatter like they should.

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  20. Maddy says:

    Wondering how to get these on Gimp? When it opens the file, it has where you click to download that and it takes me to Adobe Reader to see a message that tells me it is not a supported file type or has been damaged. Can someone help please?

    • Stephanie says:

      If you click on the “How to Install?” button just next to the download button, it explains it all. You don’t just click on the file once you download it to use it – you have to put it in the right directory, then it’ll just show up with your other brushes.

  21. Zenaugie says:

    Can your brushes be download and used in pixelmator?

    • Stephanie says:

      I have no idea, I don’t know anything about pixelmator. However, the image pack should work in any program that you can make brushes. As long as it uses the same “system” for knowing how to make brushes as Photoshop … white = transparent, black = opaque. So you could give it a try!

      • Stephanie says:

        Just realized what set you’re asking about. It won’t be able to do the random scattering effect if you just use the image pack. But if they have a scattering effect, you could add it afterward.

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