Fireworks Photoshop & GIMP Brushes

Celebrate with this set of Photoshop & GIMP brushes composed of various fireworks! They are all single bursts of some kind or another, and you can overlap them and put them together in various ways, or leave them on their own, for some realistic fireworks displays.

Includes the standard firework bursts, as well as some of the more recent shaped fireworks (circle, heart, star).

Programs: Photoshop 7+, Photoshop Elements 2+, Gimp 2.2.6+
Brushes: 30
Size: 2.36MB

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A quick word on using these brushes. You can use them with a solid color, yes. They’ll look great. But, to help make them even more colorful and/or realistic, apply a radial gradient to the layer!

If you want them to still just be the one color, you can still use a radial gradient to help make them look more realistic. Some fireworks are brighter in the center, and some are brighter on the edges. So, apply a radial gradient with just the basic black/white, and set the blending mode to “screen.” I also set the opacity to around 50% or so, so that it wasn’t TOO bright. Depending on whether your white is on the outer part or the center part of the firework, it’s going to look entirely different. If you want to switch them, click the checkmark next to Reverse. Play around with it and see what you can come up with!

You may even want to apply an outer glow to some of them, to make them even more luminescent. Some will look great like this, some you may not notice a difference at all, so you’ll have to see. I only tried it with a few of the brushes.