P: Better Preset Organization (sub-folders, tag, search)

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Tool Preset Tabs

I think it would be great to be able to create category tabs for brushes/tools you use. Like this tab is for all tree brushes, this tab all for special efx brushes, ect. I realize that we already have a pull down menu for something similar to this but having tabs would be superior. Corel Painter does this actually its very nice.

But how can we take this a step further? Well why not be able to place any tool you want into a tab window as well. Lasso tool preset, shape tool preset, pen tool preset all in a handy little window. The difference is, you can hand pick what you want to be in this window unlike photoshop's current tool presets (if you want different tools in your preset you have to see the entire list).

How can we take it even further? Well why not have the ability to color code your tools as well? Makes it easier at a glance to pick your tools. And give more colors choices than the few they give for layers or choose any color you want.

Heres an alternative idea.

If not tabs, why not groups? Similar to the iphone how you can group specific apps into a folder or how photoshop does this with layers why not use that same idea for your tools? Instead of a long daunting list or icons of tools you can create folders for all your favorite tools, getting rid of the tool bar to add more space on the screen, simplifying the mess and still keeping everything in the same window instead of using tabs.

Thanks for checking out my idea. I really hope you guys listen and consider this. Its a great way to improve the tool presets.

It would be a nice function to sub-group the lightroom presets, if you have made over 100 presets is not working with this big 1 map construction.

Example

-Model
--Color
--Fashion
--Black&White
---HardPreset
---Softpreset
-Landscape

I think that grouping into folders, tagging and even colouring brushes is just first step on the list. Seems like Brush Presets should work more like a Bridge, or rather Mini Bridge - directly in PS.

Some brushes have different thumbnail than stroke so for me it's necessary to see BOTH while I'm picking the brush. So having Brush Presets and Brush panels opened at the same time is kinda waste of space.

Brushes in Brush Preset panel vary depends on the app background colour. Maybe small option to change it separately?

Preset manager could work as it is, so I won't make any changes in Brush Preset by mistake. But for general workflow - organizing brushes is like working with Bridge - I do it constantly during the work, and want to rearrange brushes manually.

That's my current view of brushes, takes half of secondary display. I'm working on a 15" MBP with additional display and all brush thumbnails on retina are simply too small to see what I'm going to paint with. Large Thumbnail is not enough.

Sort brush presets by most recently used would be great.

For those of us who have to keep lots of swatches handy, it would be nice to be able to group swatches (by client / brand / project / etc.) so different sub-sets could be expanded and collapsed so we don't have to scroll through so many swatches to find the one we need.

Related, it would be great to be able to rearrange the swatches within the Swatches Panel, not having to dig into Preset Manager. (Really, most of the functionality of Preset Manager ought to be able to be done from the respective Panels anyway.)

Finally, perhaps a method to edit a given swatch, rather than make a new one and delete the old one it would replace.

In Photoshop, I would like to see brush presets with the option to organize them into groups/folders with labels. I have saved a variety of different brush presets (some with unique textures, some with unique applications). However, when I load a plethora of them, it's very hard to tell where a certain brush is located.

In other words, if Photoshop were to organized the brush presets similar to how the Layers Palettes have groups, colored labels, a thumbnail (for brush presets the stroke thumbnail would be the most helpful) and labeling, that feature would be very much appreciated for both myself and fellow digital illustrators.

Hello!

I have some (hopefully simple) ideas/suggestions for improvement of the actions palette in Photoshop. I’m using Photoshop CS5, so I don’t know if these issues already are taken care of in the latest version. In that case, happy joy! And please excuse my bad english...

Please add:

- The possibility to use folders or sets (+ show/hide, i.e open/close folder/set) in button-mode.

- The possibility to change the color of the actions for a whole set.

- The possibility to use a custom color.

- Nested folders.

- Perhaps a search-box to quickly find actions nested in some closed folder or stuffed away way down at the bottom of the palette.

- Multiple-selection of actions (in normal mode), so you can change the color of a bunch of actions at the same time.

- Make it possible to save/backup all folders/sets in the actions palette.

I feel that these improvements is very much needed. The actions palette is a pain in the a** to organize right now. You have to double-click each action to assign it a color, and you can’t hide sets in button-mode that you don’t wan’t to use at the moment (this is only possible in normal mode, but folders/sets could be able to be used in button-mode as well).

Button-mode is the fastest way to use the actions, but if you have a great number of actions, the palette will very quick be a complete mess.

Thanks in advance, and best regards!

@Chris Cox That's more clicks and more problems. Shouldn't you know more about UX than that? The whole point is to make it easier. (Jakob Nielsen's UX website...)

Besides, the way that Painter set up their palate would solve both issues which is much more UX friendly in either case.

Loading and replacing from the existing menu... no worse than switching the menu in your example.