Brush Panel Issues

[tylonium]

Can anybody tell me how to more efficiently add and save a new brush into my "User Defined Brush Library"?

My current method seems very poor. I drag the new brush into my brush panel then I open my User Defined Library and drag all those brushes into the brush panel and then finally -----"Save Brush Library".

Can you save brushes into the default brush panel so all the brushes you use will always be there? Even when I open a new document any new brush I have added in the previous document is no longer available in the brushes panel. I feel like I must be doing something wrong.

[Monika Gause]

Brushes libraries are just AI files. Find it in your user folder, open it and then add the brush you need.

You can also have all your brushes in every new file by saving the brushes in a template file or a new document profile.

But since brushes can make a file quite large and you probably don't use all your brushes in all your files, I wouldn't do that.

[tylonium]

 'Find it in your user folder, open it and then add the brush you need.

You can also have all your brushes in every new file by saving the brushes in a template file or a new document profile.'

Thank you. Sounds easy enough but could you tell me how to do either of those things? I know where my brushes file is located but how do I physically get a new brush I created into that file without doing what I have stated I've been doing? I tried dragging and dropping the new brush into the brushes file folder but that didn't work.

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

Open the brushes library file and then add the brush to its brushes panel. All your other brushes should be in there already. Most easy way to do this: if the brush has already been created in another file, apply it to a path and then copy and paste that path into the brushes library file. You can delete that path immediately afterwards.

[tylonium]

Thank you very much for your help!

[meganchi]

Have you Opened a User Defined Brush Library since you have chosen "Save Brush Library" before? Any new document you open, then you can bring up your brushes palette and select user defined.

[tylonium]

Thanks for responding. Yes I have gotten that far. The problem I am having is saving a new brush to the  user defined brushes file I have created. There must be an easier way of doing it then what I have been doing.