The comparatively new Commercial Photoshop Brushes website has a clean design and looks like a promising option for buying Photoshop brushes online. However, the site's newness does have some drawbacks in terms of brush quantity and variety, although the technical support staff and brush compatibility are not affected by this detail.

The website's features are solid enough for a new site, although the site could certainly benefit from the addition of a newsletter or a blog for regular updates. The site's social media links take you to the developer's individual Twitter page and her original website project's Facebook page. These provide the option for further customer interaction, but we would like to see social media accounts set up specifically for this website.

There are just more than 50 brush sets to choose from. There are no packs or collections available, and only a handful of free brushes. We noticed that the website requires you to create an account in order to purchase brush sets, which is something like the membership options offered by other sites, but it is free to create an account. Once you purchase a set, you can use its contents for personal or commercial use, and you can even alter the size, color and similar details of the brushes as needed. Altered sets can be used commercially, but they cannot be resold or redistributed.

Brush sets purchased from Commercial Photoshop Brushes are compatible with Photoshop 7 and CS through CS 5.5. They even work with Photoshop Elements 3.0 and later, so users who couldn't shell out the big bucks for the full Photoshop package will still be able to enjoy these custom brushes.

The site itself is well designed, with clean elements and simple navigation. We missed sort options to organize sets alphabetically or by style, category or popularity, but a simple search bar is present and functional. It is a little annoying that you have to open a set's info page to see a preview of the brushes it includes, but this is a relatively common inconvenience among the other websites we reviewed.

When it comes to variety, this website's offerings are middle of the road at best. We were disappointed to note that buildings, apparel, arrows, patterns, people figures, artistic elements, Asian influences, skulls, splatters, wings, tribal elements and stars, among other categories, are all absent. The categories that are represented are a bit sparse compared to Commercial Photoshop Brushes' competitors, but there are enough choices for beginners or professionals who might need to fill a gap or two in their brush sets.

There are about 10 widely varied floral designs, and about the same number of frames and tags. The latter seems to be tailored specifically to scrapbookers because it includes photo corners, wedding themes and more. Add half a dozen holiday-themed sets and a comparative number of swirled brushes, and you have a nice starter collection for home users.

To contact technical support, just fill out a form on the website; the owner herself will respond promptly. She answered our email within 12 hours, which is a wonderful response time for any technical support team, large or small. There is a link to an external site that provides instructions for installing your new Photoshop brushes, as well as links to other external tutorials as well. We would have liked to see a FAQs page, but perhaps the site is still too new to have received many questions.