Lunar Studies | Photoshop Overlays & Brushes

Build the moonlit scene you pictured.

Add a delicate crescent, a luminous full moon or a copper-toned eclipse, then blend the scene with separate cloud, haze and glow overlays. Lunar Studies gives you grayscale Photoshop brushes and transparent PNGs together, so you can choose the workflow that suits your photograph.

WHAT YOU GET

• 23 grayscale Photoshop brushes in one ABR file.

• 23 matching neutral PNG designs, including clean and hazy moon phases, thin and broad crescents, near-full phases, and illustrative eclipse effects.

• 14 warm color PNGs: Warm Ivory and Amber Moonrise treatments of seven clean phases.

• Copper Lunar Eclipse: a 4096 × 4096 PNG with a 4000-pixel moon disk.

• Eight atmosphere PNGs: thin veils, broken wisps, low cloud banks, soft bloom and diffuse haze.

• An illustrated guide and an actual-asset index to help you find the right file.

That is 46 transparent PNG files: 38 moon PNGs and eight atmosphere PNGs, alongside the 23 brushes. Color variants are alternate treatments, not additional phase designs. Copper Lunar Eclipse is a PNG overlay and does not add another brush.

DETAIL WHERE IT MATTERS

The rendered moon disks are about 4000 pixels across. Most moon PNGs use 8800 × 5867 canvases; Copper Lunar Eclipse uses a 4096 × 4096 canvas. Brush tips use 5000 × 5000 canvases. Transparent padding provides placement room, not extra lunar detail.

LAYER, MASK AND MAKE IT YOURS

Place a PNG on its own layer, scale it to fit the scene and use opacity and masking to blend it. Add the atmosphere elements independently for more control. Prefer stamping? Use the grayscale brush tips. Basic familiarity with Photoshop layers and masks is recommended.

COMPATIBILITY

Functionally checked in Adobe Photoshop 2026 on macOS. Brushes are grayscale; the color treatments are supplied as PNGs. Photoshop is not included. Other applications and older versions have not been verified.

CAREFULLY BUILT LUNAR DETAIL

The lunar surface renders use measured NASA/PDS data with artistic lighting and restrained polar smoothing. Color treatments are artistic, not measured natural lunar color. No AI-generated lunar surface texture is included. Scientific source credits are provided. No NASA endorsement is implied.

LICENSE

Use the supplied brushes and overlays in personal and commercial finished images. Resale or redistribution of the reusable brush and overlay files is not permitted.

DIGITAL DOWNLOAD

No physical book or prints will be shipped. The actual-file preview cards show included assets. Scene photographs used to demonstrate a composite are not included.

Download the Lunar Studies ZIP after checkout, then extract it before installing the brushes or using the PNGs.