I am proud to present to you the first installment of the “Brick Brush Project.” It is pretty much what it sounds like, a series of brick textured Photoshop brushes. Now, you might ask, “Proj, there are a million PS brushes out there, what’s so great about these?”

First, that’s kind of a rude question. Secondly, these are high-quality brushes that are A) Awesome and B) Free. Plus they actually have some amount of sentimental value to me. I actually found these—and about fifty others—bricks buried in my backyard when I was transplanting some lilac bushes. After pulling them out of the ground and hosing them off I busted out the camera and went to town snapping pictures for these brushes. I’m sure Ivy thought I’d seriously lost my mind when she found me outside taking pictures of dirty bricks, but it was all for a good cause.

As I said before, these brushes are free for you to use for either personal or commercial projects. However, you may not redistribute them individually or as part of a package. Giving credit is always welcome, so feel free to link back to The Repository if you’d like.

You have your choice to download the brushes or .png’s. The brushes were created using Photoshop CS1, but I’ve had no problems using them in Photoshop CS3 too.