digital art: managing brushes for ease of access

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April 6, 2019
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is there a way in photoshop to save a collection of different brushes and erasors in a panel at the side of the screen. but that it will hold onto size, color, flow and opacity data aswell.

so that with one click i can pick up a brush and use it without having to change and change back these parameters every time?

for example, one blue pencil, semi opaque.

one fat black brush with 1% flow.

one thin black brush with 100% flow

one red brush with 100% flow

one small eraser

one large eraser

this kind of thing

this would save me from so much hassle.

thankyou in advance if you know a solution.

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ThreeDmodeller

Participant

As stated in the other answers, making brush presets it the way to start:

Then create actions (with hot keys) to call on those brushes:

But don't forget to turn off Current Tool Only in the brush pulldown in the menubar:

Leslie Moak Murray

Community Expert

And be sure to save your brushes from time to time, especially since you (like me) make your own. I save mine in a folder on my desktop named "Work Files," and I do the same for the custom shapes I make. It would be a disaster if I lost them in a crash of some kind where i relaunch Photoshop and find it has reverted to the defaults.