Another request this week! I’ve been behind on those, and trying to catch up a bit. This was a fun set to try to brainstorm ideas for! It’s a unique set… I’m pretty sure I’ll be the only site out there with Earth Friendly Vector Brushes! Hope that some of you can find some uses for it.

This set includes all kinds of images, mostly involving the earth and nature. Kind of a “green” set of brushes, if you will. Ecologically friendly, earth friendly… whatever you want to call it, these should help you represent it! These are all vector images, and the average brush size is about 2000 pixels - so they’re high resolution!

Includes: various earth images (an earth inside a giant set of hands, nestled safely in a leaf, with a heart around it, inside a flower, next to some leaves, with a tree growing out of it, etc), flowers, 2 sets of grasses, several leaves, a leaf and a water drop, 2 regular recycling images, 1 water recycling image, and some trees!

Go Now to the Downloads Page!

Brushes Tip:

Want these images to show up in several colors? Like the earth, for example.

1. Create a new layer (the button on the layers palette or Shift-Ctrl-N… CMD-SHIFT-N on a Mac).

2. Use the “earth” brush that on that new layer, using a blue color (we’re using blue because the “earth” brush will fill in the water portions of the earth).

3. Use the magic wand tool and click somewhere outside of that earth. It should select the space around the earth.

4. Choose Select > Modify > Expand, then put in 1 or 2 pixels (1 pixel if you’re working on a small scale, 2 if you’re working high-res).

5. Select > Inverse. You should now have the earth itself selected, minus a pixel or two at the edges.

6. Click on the layer beneath the one with the earth on it, and create a new layer again (Shift-Ctrl-N or Cmd-Shift-N).

7. Using the paint bucket tool, and with a green color selected, click once inside the earth to fill the rest in with green.

8. Voila! You now have a multicolored earth.

9. You could also have just painted in that green color beneath the earth, if you’re good at painting “between the lines” like you would with a coloring book!

10. When it comes to using more than 2 colors, however, I’d suggest checking out my multiple colors with photoshop brushes tutorial (with vectors like this, though, you don’t need that top, black layer - you can just erase it when you’re done).

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