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

Tom, while I agree with your post, let me specify one thing: tool presets and brush tip shapes presets are not the same.

The second ones save everything you set up in the brush panel, while the tool settings also record the blending mode, color, etc. all the settings from the option bar. See these videos on the topic:
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-evang... and http://tv.adobe.com/watch/the-russell...

Sub folders in the Brushes and Tools menus would be very easy to implement and make organising brushes much easier. For our digital painting work we use several sets of brush tools- one for high resolution natural media artwork, one for low-res cartoons, etc. Currently these are all kept in one very long list. Constantly Loading and Replacing brushes or tools is far from an ideal solution. Just allow sub folders in the drop-down!
Also- the brushes that show up in the Menu Bar Brushes drop down (usually displayed on the left) are not the same as those displayed in the Brush Tip Shape window of the Brushes Panel (usually displayed on the right). They do not sync- if you create a new brush and save it in to a set, or even before this, just when you have created a new brush, it should show up in both lists in the same place.

Photoshop cs5: Still no easy way to organize brushes...
I'm currently collecting some brushes, trying some, deleting others again and it is a pain to do, if you ask me. It would be awesome to have folders or groups in the brush menue to which you can drag and drop brushes (or out of it). This way I could much more easily reorganize my brushes. Rightclicking on a brush should open a sub menue for deleting, renaming or editing...the usual stuff.

Photoshop has poor organization. It should have the ability to "page" brushes easily and optionally sort by folder directory.

If you have more brushes that go off the page you should be able to page to the off page brushes. The designers must have never used more than a few brushes to have done it the way they did.

One should be able to organize any preset by folders/subdirectories and have the represented in photoshop. It is very easy to implement and unimaginable why such a dominant program in the industry is so weak on organization.

Flash Pro has the ability to save swatches within each FLA file. It's not useful when you have a project with many files but at least, the swatches follow your document, which is good. Illustrator does the same if I'm not mistaking.

For me, the ability to organize swatches into folders (just like in Illustrator) would be a good start. The best would be some feature that allow us to link swatches with projects or files, like Rachel just said.

Be nice if the program remembered the last few colors used as well per project Setable by user preference.

Same for me Brandon. If we could create folders to organize and switch between swatches set, it would be perfect!

Suggestion: Associate color swatch groups with a file or provide controls for showing / hiding multiple swatch groups in the Swatches panel.

I typically deal with over 5 projects a day which all have different color requirements and it would be a great time-saver to be able to select a swatch group quick without importing it. Better still would be when my PSD opens the swatches would update, although I can see that being a preference which some users might want to disable.

Any traction for this one? Feedback is appreciated!




This reply was created from a merged topic originally titlted
Improved Swatch Group Management.

It would be great to have folders or groups for patterns in Photoshop. It get's messy when you have a large number.

It would also be nice to be able to sort presets (such as swatches and styles) in the swatches and styles panel, without using the preset manager. It would be easier to organize them faster by dragging them inside the panel.