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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRdcQu...

Look at the brush organization in Painter. Not saying Photoshop should do that, but considering that painter has a brush history, and enhancements for sizing, color, etc, some of that might be useful for photoshop users.

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/520465...

A previous topic on this was started a while back. See the link above.

While there are organization tools via third party, hands down, other applications are ahead on this--including Corel, Painter, Manga Studio EX, and also type applications. I'd also like font management to come native to it. Details are in the link and there is a fair amount of support for the idea.

Be great to also be able to manage fonts and resources by project as well, for those of us who do things professionally. So if you use a font/resource, it automatically puts it into a panel. (Painter has similar functionality, so I know it can be done.)

Also, as mentioned in that thread, I'm pressing for being able to give the brush author credit in a meta-type set up, but optional... and also searchable.

Be great to have this across the board in all applications, not just Photoshop.

When I saw the title, I immediately thought about Bridge!
When one knows that Bridge is supposed to be the command central of the Creative Suite, and that third party app are able to do that (never heard of PresetViewerBreeze before, thanks, Constance!), it is a bit sad...

It is similar with the way of managing images in Bridge! Have the function of View/Search/Rate/Keywords/Group in presets will be great!

There are several 3rd party applications that provide some of what I'm asking for, but it would be better if it could be done within Photoshop: abrView (PC only) can view brushes, but not organize; Brush Pilot can view brushes in folders, but not tag; abrMate (PC only) can view brushes; PresetViewerBreeze is the closest, since it lets you view brushes, patterns, shapes, styles, gradients, contours, swatches, and fonts, but not organize.

The preset manager squishes the thumbnails into a square shape, so that some of the presets are hard to recognize. You can put presets into sets, but you have to load a whole set at one time, not one at a time.

I would like to be able to view and add various tags to each preset that I have on my computer (not just the loaded ones), and then be able to view/search/sort by tag, such as Christmas, Grungy, Watercolor, etc. Each preset could have numerous tags, so it could be grouped differently based on the search criteria. For example, you could have a brush that had a Christmas theme, but was also grungy. You should be able to to find it under both tags. I would also like to be able to load each preset, not the whole set at one time.

Add folder support for swatches. As I have to work on multiple projects per day, I would be more efficient than having to load my exernal swatches files (ase). In fact, I could be a little like Illustrator or even better! For instance, importing a folder directly from kuler would be a great addition.

This is an interesting idea -- if you have any more thoughts here on how to make such an addition a better experience please mention it. Thanks!