digital art: managing brushes for ease of access

[djmattyz]

is there a way in photoshop to save a collection of different brushes and erasors in a panel at the side of the screen.   but that it will hold onto size, color, flow and opacity data aswell.

so that with one click i can pick up a brush and use it without having to change and change back these parameters every time?

for example,  one blue pencil, semi opaque.

one fat black brush with 1% flow.

one thin black brush with 100% flow

one red brush with 100% flow

one small eraser

one large eraser

this kind of thing

this would save me from so much hassle.

thankyou in advance if you know a solution.

[davescm]

Yes

Make your settings then in the brushes panel menu (top right) click New Brush Preset.

Give it a name and check "Include tool settings" and "Include Color"

Dave

[Leslie Moak Murray]

And be sure to save your brushes from time to time, especially since you (like me) make your own. I save mine in a folder on my desktop named "Work Files," and I do the same for the custom shapes I make. It would be a disaster if I lost them in a crash of some kind where i relaunch Photoshop and find it has reverted to the defaults.

[ThreeDmodeller]

As stated in the other answers, making brush presets it the way to start:

Then create actions (with hot keys) to call on those brushes:

But don't forget to turn off Current Tool Only in the brush pulldown in the menubar: