Saving settings to a tool.

I'm trying to figure out how to save settings to a particular tool. I would like to save settings to the smudge tool. When I hit the smudge tool I would like it to default to a brush that I made and to an opacity of 10%. It seems to do this on its own after I use it for a while for some reason, but with each new update it defaults to the old method of giving me a round brush with 90% opacity. How can I fix this? 

 

 Thanks

By @docjoque1

I don't think you can force the Smudge tool to always open with the same preset.  It should open with whatever prest or settings it had when Photoshop last closed.  What you can do is to create your ideoa preset for the Smudge tool, and export it to a .abr file.  Idealy you would make this some kind of favourites group that you would keep at the top of the brush right click menu.

If you have all of these options checked in the right click menu

Then you can see what tool each preset will switch to, and what the tip looks like

So you can select the Smudge tool and set i up, and then save New Brush Preset

You can do this with all tools that use selectable cursors (some tools don')

Place them in a group, select that group and choose Export selected brushes

This will create a new .abr file in the presets folder.

Note Export Brushes will be greyed out if no presets or group(s) are selected.