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crossed44
Participant
July 30, 2026
Question

Brush Settings affecting all brushes instead of individual brush

  • July 30, 2026
  • 2 replies
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Hello! 

I recently noticed that when I change a setting on a brush preset it affects all my other brushes. For example, I have a pencil brush with a certain texture and transfer behaviour that has a different texture and behaviour than my pencil shader brush. If i change the texture in the pencil brush, it automatically changes this texture in my shader brush even if both settings have been locked. I then have to manually change these settings back to the the way I want it before using the brush.

 

I am changing the brush in the preset tool bar, not just changing the brush tip. This never used to be an issue for me but now it impedes my workflow since I have to manually change all the settings every time i switch to a new brush. 

 

If anyone has any answers, please let me know. Thank you. 

    2 replies

    c.pfaffenbichler
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    July 30, 2026

    Please post meaningful screenshots including the brush settings panel.

    Did you lock some feature/s (see the lock-icons in the panel)?

    tomcarry0
    Participant
    July 30, 2026

    That sounds really frustrating, especially if it started happening suddenly after previously working as expected. If changing one brush preset is affecting others, it almost sounds like the presets are sharing settings rather than storing them independently. I'd be interested to know whether this happens with newly created brush presets as well or only with existing ones. Hopefully it's something that can be resolved without having to rebuild your entire brush library.