I haven’t been working on my design projects the last few weekends so it slipped my mind to do a design resource roundup. But people seem to like these (and hopefully find them useful) so here are some grunge style Photoshop brushes. GIMP users can use these too- you just drop the files for the brushes in the “Brushes” folder in your GIMP directory. I’ve indicated how many brushes are included in each set and, when the information was provided, whether they can be used commercially.

There are thousands of Photoshop brush directories online and hundreds of thousands of brushes- most of which are great to look at and even better to use. The vast majority of brushes are free to use for personal projects. Commercial use is where the rules differ. Some sets require you to buy a license; others merely ask that you request permission to use the art commercially.
But if you don’t want to pay and are too antisocial to contact people through email to ask them a question, there are some brushes …