I need to organize brushes

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March 18, 2016
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I am trying to make sets of brushes and it is so cumbersome that I have to imagine there is a better way. Hoping so. I open a set of existing brushes. Say, Dry Media brushes. This loads a whole bunch of various brushes in that set. I want just a few of them in my own personal set. I would like to be able to go through them and drag and drop the ones I like into a new set. If I try to do that from the brush preset panel, it appears that I can drag a brush somewhere, but where? Nowhere, it seems. That would be easy, but instead, it seems I have to manually delete every other brush until I have a set of just the half dozen I want. Then I save that set as "my set" and then I start again with another set of 50 brushes, which I have to delete most of them and append that set with "my set" and then save that new set of say just ten brushes. It takes ages to manually delete brush after brush. It also doesn't help that I have to load a whole set of about 50 brushes. I can't just load one or two. Is there an easier way to do this?

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trevc30379660

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It would also be useful, at least to me, to have the ability to extract brush data (e.g., settings) into a csv type file.

martin draax

Inspiring

The Magic Squire panel seems handy, but it seems it does what you can do in photoshop: drag brushes to other folders. But I think TinRobot44 wants what we all need: several sets that you can create per project in which you drag brushes that are copies, otherwise you mess up the order every time you drag a brush. I tried alt-drag and hoped it would work 😉 but alas.

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jnpatrick59

Participant

I think MagicSquire panel plugin will work the way you want:

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

A new brush engine and management system has been asked for several times, and threads started on the Photoshop feedback site. We had a long thread in this forum, in which some good ideas were put forward. Nothing has happened so far, and this goes back several years. I'll tell you what I do:

Find the main brush preset folder depending on your operating system

Preference file functions, names, locations | Photoshop CS5

With Windows it is (but note you have to make Hidden files and folders viewable to see it:

C:\Users\user_name\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2015\Presets\Brushes

I have exactly 100 brush sets in that folder, so I have renamed the sets to make them list by type in alphabetical order. I always leave enough of the original file name to know where the set came from, unless it is one of mine of course.

Meanwhile, please head over to the feedback site, and make a request. This is definitely a squeeky wheels get oiled situation. He who makes the most fuss gets responded to soonest.

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TinRobot44Author

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Wow, I assumed the horrible brush interface was down to me. Shocked that this is truly so hard to use. So your suggestion is about managing existing sets, but I guess there is no way to easily edit a set, as I describe? Why does it appear that I can drag a brush from the brush presets menu, but in fact, I can't?

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

OK, so it is the Preset Manager that you are having trouble with. Is that right? You know you can select just the brushes you want, and save to a new set or overwrite and existing one? (BTW I keep a backup of the entire Adobe App Data folder hierarchy just in case. ) Am I still missing your point?

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