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
Download the image pack (for those without Photoshop & GIMP)
Brushes Tip:
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, use them on a new, fresh layer and apply a radial gradient to that 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.
Hello!
How to I add a glow/gradient to it?
(I new to Photoshop.)
Thanks!
Akemi.
@Akemi: You’ll have to use the brush on its own layer (click on “Create a New Layer” on the lower right area of the layers palette), and then apply a layer style (just to the left of where you created the new layer, on the layers palette). The rest of the instructions from this post should be understandable now that you know where to look! Good luck! :)
Thank you!
These are great, thank you so much.
Thank you sooo much for all your brushes. They are great!
Just what I was needing for my 4th of July pics…..thank you, Stephanie!
Thanks for supporting GIMP too. Much appreciated by this Ubuntu user.
Hi
Thanks for the brushes they r great but i m new to photoshop Can you please tell know how you can make fireworks in different colours mine r working just grey and while colour:(
@Sam: You’ll want to use the brushes on their own, new layer. Then apply a layer style to that layer, something like a gradient or somesuch. That’s what I did for the ones in the preview.
If you’re not sure what this means, check out some of my tutorials. Even if they don’t teach you to do exactly what you’re wanting, you’ll learn all the basic principles of making a layer and adding a layer style in them.
Hope this helps!
Thank you so much for these!
Stephanie, How did you get your brushes to be two different colors? I mean i don’t quite understand how you did that. I see that you said have a gradient on a seperate layer, and colors on different layers too. But i don’t understand :(
@Jake: For these brushes, I put each firework on its own layer and then added a radial gradient to that layer. That’s it.
But I also have a tutorial on other ways of doing multiple colors with brushes… it’s called exactly that, and it’s in my tutorials :)
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How can I install the brushes to Adobe Fireworks?? Where should I put them in the Adobe files?? Please help! ^^
@lia: These weren’t made for Adobe Fireworks, they were made for Photoshop. I know nothing at all about Fireworks, and have no idea if they’ll work. Sorry!
There is also an “image pack”, though, which you can download – it’s made up of the JPGs I used to make the brushes, and would work in any graphics program.
Stephanie
Oh, I see!! Thank you very much for your reply! I’ll take them for Photoshop. :)
Thanks so much!
i am so confused… XD
@Lauren: My FAQs and Tutorials will probably help you then. :)
I would like to thank you for the brushes I have downloaded. OAP learning photoshop. Una
I dont get how to make the fireworks gradient can you help.
I have Photoshop elements 8.
can you please post step by step instructions
thnx
If you’re not sure what I mean about using them on their own layer and adding a gradient, check out some of my other tutorials. They’ll explain how to add new layers, etc, and how to add various layer styles to those layers (which is what the gradient is). However, I’m not sure how accurate they are for Photoshop Elements. I don’t currently have a copy of Elements to give you step by step instructions, sorry.
However, you could look up “making a new layer in Photoshop Elements” and then “adding a gradient layer style in Photoshop Elements” or somesuch, and they should be able to answer those questions for you. :)
Thank you! Goes it work for photoshop elements 8?
Yep. When I say they’re compatible with Photoshop Elements 2+, that means any version that came out after 2, and that certainly includes 8, so you should be good to go!
If you need help installing them, there’s links in my sidebar.
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Hey you are awesome!! I would like to know how to add the glow or gradient to this type of brushes. Can you gemme the link of your tutorial, I will be very thank full if you do so. Thankz for Sharing :D
I explain the way that I made these in the “Brushes Tip” at the end of this post, somewhat. Hope it helps. :)
Thank you so much for this amazing brushes :)