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Sanpanza
Sanpanza
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March 18, 2018
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Change Default Brush in preset

  • March 18, 2018
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Could any one tell me what is the command set to choose a brush other than the brush that is defined in a brush preset? Most of the Photoshop brushes have a defined brush but I forgot the commands to release the defined brush and choose another instead.

Any thoughts would be helpful.

Ed

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      marliton
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      marlitonCommunity Expert
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      March 18, 2018

      You can select brushes in the Brushes panel. After selecting a brush, you can configure it using the Brush settings panel.

      Marlon Ceballos
      Sanpanza
      SanpanzaAuthor
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      March 18, 2018

      Hi marliton​, there is a key command for releasing the brush but I just cannot remember it. Thank you for your response. Note the red circles in these samples of brush presets: Brushes   

      They are presents with defined brushes and there is a command to allow you to use another brush instead. If you don't use it you re stuck with that brush unless, as you say, you change the values on the preset.

      Trevor.Dennis
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      Trevor.DennisCommunity Expert
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      March 19, 2018

      Thanks Trevor.Dennis​, apologies for my lack of clarity.

      When I click on a brush preset (say one of Kyles Brushes for example) , it oftentimes comes with a pre-defined mixer brush or normal brush. I understand that is the nature of a brush preset. However, I have had occasion to want to use another brush instead of what is on the brush preset and, rather than creating a new preset, I would prefer just to, TEMPORARILY, use another brush.

      Here is a screen shot of Photoshop brush presets on a LightRoom : Photo Editor | Online Photoshop Lightroom . I had a command that I could use to click on another brush instead and use it temporarily. I cannot remember it. The link is a Lightroom Gallery only and I am not confusing Lightroom with Photoshop.

      Do I make any sense. I may not have the right vernacular to describe what I am asking. I am a photographer only recently started using brushes to do art.

      Ed Carreon

      Photographer


      Sanpanza  wrote

      Thanks Trevor.Dennis , apologies for my lack of clarity.

      When I click on a brush preset (say one of Kyles Brushes for example) , it oftentimes comes with a pre-defined mixer brush or normal brush. I understand that is the nature of a brush preset. However, I have had occasion to want to use another brush instead of what is on the brush preset and, rather than creating a new preset, I would prefer just to, TEMPORARILY, use another brush.

      Ed Carreon

      Photographer

      You need to adopt a different view set with brush presets now, because as you have found, it has all changed.  You have not lost anything.  All your old presets are there, plus heaps more from Kyle Webster.  It's just that some of the new presets are NOT FOR THE BRUSH TOOL.  They were designed specifically with the designated tools in mind.

      If you absolutely want to use one of those presets with another tool, then simply  click on the New Preset icon at the top right of the right click brush panel.  You can see that the selected tool is for the eraser.

      So when the new preset window opens make sure that Include Tool Settings​ is not checked, as below.  Give it a name that you can remember, and you now have a different version of the same preset that you can use with any tool.  If you had watched the video I included in post #3, all that and much more, would have been explained to you.  It isn't Rocket Science.

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