You can never have enough trees! Here are a couple of images to show how they can be used in your architectural graphics. Trees brushes – these trees are pretty good. More birds – you can never have too many birds right?Ĩ.

Trees in the mist – I just thought these were quite cool, although not useful for every project.Ħ. Cloud brushes – a quick way to a great sky.ĥ. Image courtesy of Visualising ArchitectureĤ. Light beams – these can be really effective for interior renders.Īrchitects love a light beam! If that floats your boat look at some of the images below. Image courtesy of Urban Recycle Architecture Studio 3. Bird brushes – great for making your images come alive.Ī couple of examples of birds used in architectural graphics. The following images give you an idea of what can be achieved, all of which can be seen on where they have tutorials on the production of each one.Ģ. It is possible to create some really beautiful watercolour style images using photoshop, sometimes along with SketchUp. Watercolour splatters – really useful if you are going for a watercolour effect on your visuals. I don’t think you should ever pay for brushes as there are so many free ones out there you will eventually find the ones you want. If you are not sure how it works check the bottom of this post for a quick guide to installing your brushes into photoshop.Īll of these brushes are free.

These are my top ten useful photoshop brushes that you can download for free. You do not have to use the standard set of brushes that come with the photoshop package, you can add as many as you like, which can be really useful when creating amazing visuals for your design project.

This is easy to do – the short video at the end of this post shows you how to do this. They also have further sets, that you can load directly. Photoshop comes with a set of brushes pre loaded into the program. There are a couple of really useful things you need to know about photoshop that took me a while to discover when I first started out. Photoshop does so much more than touch up a photograph as I’m sure you know.

Photoshop tree plan brushes