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December 7, 2016
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Tool Presets -> Could not load tool presets because the sampled data for the brush could not be found

  • December 7, 2016
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I created Tool Preset, where I started to save my brushes I used while painting in Photoshop, I saved it as custom Tool Preset (.tpl) file.

And now I can't load this preset, I get an error message: "Could not load tool presets because the sampled data for the brush could not be found".

I assume, the problem is caused by some mixer brush in this preset, that is using sampled bitmap instead of color. But, so what!? I can't use a preset created which I created because of some missed piece of data I had no idea of?

Its just such a dull UX flaw — you allow to save brushes with sampled data to tool preset, but then just lock the whole preset from being loaded because of a single missed piece of data. Then why not locking the whole PSD from loading, for example, because of a lost font or smart object? Would be basically the same.

Is there workaround to get my preset back?

If not, it just killed a few hours of my painstaking work (it is critical for my current workflow to use exactly the same brushes because they are reused in frame-by-frame animation), and now I can't get my carefully adjusted brushes back!

Any help is appreciated!

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3 replies

May 9, 2017

Just encountered this error. Win7, CS6.

My tpl is assembled from a few abr files, I tried loading those files and somehow I was able to open my tpl, but some of the tpl brushes can't work normally, then I restarted Photoshop, same error happened again.

I gave up eventually. Hope someone have better luck.

HarrisonFraser1
Participant
March 1, 2017

I also have this problem and face loosing a lot of carefully developed brushes for specific rendering styles.

Gutted if Adobe cant get this part of Pshop fixed.

Participating Frequently
December 14, 2016

I just had this error too - never having seen it before, after years of making brush tools.

Must be a nasty bug!

artoixAuthor
Known Participant
December 16, 2016

For me this part of the product is dead — after I reported the problem, I was extreme careful not to save brushes that have sampled bitmap instead of colors. No luck, again after two hours of careful brushes selection and adjustments my preset is killed by Photoshop — I can't load it back. Nasty!