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carrie1009
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December 23, 2018
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How do you organize your graphics and photoshop files?

  • December 23, 2018
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I have recently purchased a slew of brushes, backgrounds, overlays, etc. Plus I have a ton of purchased and free images. Actions, patterns, backgrounds and ...well, everything. 😃 How is it easiest to organize them so I can actually find what i want? Right now it just feels like a jumbled mess......can you give me some insights as to how YOU organize your graphics?

thanks!

carrie

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    Trevor.Dennis
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    December 23, 2018

    This link gives you file locations of various assets like brushes.

    Photoshop CS6 preference file functions, names, locations

    Brushes are the only presets I have a lot of, so what I do is rename them in the Windows folder, so that they meaningful names in alphabetic order.  I try to leave enough of the original name to identify where they came from.  The Preset Manager, and improved Brush Management system, are also useful keeping things in order.

    With graphic elements, I use the CC Libraries. These are one of my favourite CC features, and have greatly improved my asset management.  Being able to create a library for each client that has fonts, colour swatch, Smart Objects etc. has been a huge time saver.  It means things are always there and available, and can be dragged onto a document window to retrieve them.  I LOVE CC Libraries.

    As Bojan said back up the thread, Bridge is an excellent resource, and can be used for more than simple DAM (Digital Asset Management) to keep track of your pictures.  I store image sets with date and meaningful name so they list in order

    '2018_12_24 Christmas In The Park'

    I like that Bridge lets up give images a star rating, which lets me sort them into 'keepers, trash, good enough to upload'.

    Bridge also has some very hand scripted features/tools.  Load Files into Photoshop Layers, for instance.  I use that one a lot.

    John T Smith
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    December 23, 2018

    Would you like to have this moved to the Photoshop forum where other Photoshop users read?

    carrie1009
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    December 23, 2018

    yes please.....thank you!

    [Moved... Here is the list of all Adobe forums... https://forums.adobe.com/welcome]

    Derek Cross
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    December 23, 2018

    If you have Photoshop CC you can save them to Creative Cloud Files (in the cloud storage that come with PS).

    Bojan Živković11378569
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    December 23, 2018

    One way is using Window > Libraries and the second way I am using is Bridge keyword + collections.