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

Yeah it is sad. A lot of useful things come from plugins to provide holes in Adobe's designs. No one knows that Bridge is the command center. Why would it be? It is not intuitive, slow, bloated and a real resource hog. Adobe made that decision–not the users.

I'd like the brush preset manager to keep brush sets (loaded from different files) separate. To explain: I have five groups of brushes that I store in separate files (some of which are third-party brush sets). I may modify a brush, or create a new one, and want to make sure the change gets reflected in (say) my 'urban textures' brush set, but I can't do that without pruning out all the brushes from the other sets first, which is really tedious. I'd love the ability to have a few different .abr files open at once, with some unobtrusive folder metaphor so I can keep them distinct when managing brushes, then easily save changes back to the various .abr files.

You can save the tip settings in the brushes palatte.

Brush Palate (from the side with the layers)-->New Brush preset-->Save preset.

If you really hate the previous brush, you can always delete it.

Edit-->Preset Manager-->Brushes-->select the brush-->delete.

Grouping the presets, however, hasn't been done yet.

Doesn't look like they plan to put it into Photoshop 6 from the Superstition DL, however, they did make some strides to head towards that direction, so our wish may be coming in the future.

I am a JDI person so being able to reconstruct a brush that accomplished what I am looking for would be wonderful. As a former traditional painter (many years ago) there were always fav. brushes and with all the choices in setting up for "a" brush when you find the settings that work for you it would be awesome to keep this as your own preset! and a group of these would keep the flow viable. Color palettes are the same and this can now be done but to be able to group with brushes keep it simple and cohesive. So please consider this for the next release!

I would like a way to save customized and rearranged panels as Personal Styles and Presets and centralize all of my Saved Presets in a personal "Cabinet" in Bridge so that they are reachable from each of the other applications which comprise the CS "Suite".

I am very much in favor of the original request. I find myself losing track of brushes and not being able to identify the ones I'm using. It would be nice to have the original brush name stick even if modifications are made. It would also be nice if there was some way to easily locate a brush that might be named similar but not grouped with other like named brushes. Either a Search Window to type in the name of brush, or a way to Alphabetize all brushes.

Please count me in!

Thank you!
Linda King

I would love to be able to organize Brushes with Icons.

I always feel limited in the ways to organize my Presets.
Text only, brush stroke or brush are just not quite the options.

beeing able to set own icons, and arrange them as you like would be IT!

I currently have CS5 extended. I have down loaded a number of brushes from Fay Sirkis in my brush collection. Is there any way to color code the different brushes in the brush menu.

It would be nice to be able to organize swatches by dragging and dropping them similar to how you can reorganize layers.

If we really wanted to get crazy, it would be nice to have individual palettes grouped in folders within the swatches palette.