Where should I be saving my old and new photoshop brushes?

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December 9, 2025
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Hi

I'm trying to figure out the best place to save my photoshop brushes that I actually want to use. I have so many over the years and they are in different locations. I'm trying to find the best place to save a batch of brushes that I actually want to load and not cause problems for photoshop. Where is the best place to save them for the best preformance.

Thanks

Greg

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Aleke

Community Manager

Hi @10275443, thanks for reaching out!
A good approach is to organize your brushes into folders by category (like watercolor, texture, or inking) and keep backups somewhere safe, such as an external drive or cloud storage. Backups are important because some users have lost brushes after updates (Creative Cloud has a setting that removes custom settings during updates), and if you're having issues, certain troubleshooting steps that require resetting Photoshop to default can wipe your brushes.
Thanks so much!
Alek

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gSauceAuthor

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Hi Thanks for the reply. Yes I have brushes organized and saved out in safe places but as far as loading them up for photoshop I'm wondering if the should be put in a certain folder so photoshop runs better. Is there a place that your main working brushes should be loaded from. Current they are being picked up from different folders and I can't imagine thats a great way to go. I noticed crashing after loading certain brush sets and I'm suspecting and issue from there uploaded locations

Sameer K

Community Manager

Hey, @10275443. Thanks for the updates. It is unlikely that the location of a brush preset can cause a crash. Once imported, the brush presets are copied into Photoshop's settings folder, along with all the other tool presets.

If you notice a crash after importing groups of brush presets, it'll be ideal to import one at a time to identify which group (s) contain a corrupted brush that can lead to a crash.

Also, I couldn't find crash reports submitted with the account you've signed in to the community with. If you see a crash dialogue, submit it with your Adobe ID. Check here for more steps: https://adobe.ly/3MzeDLR

Thanks!
Sameer K
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