New Brushes Panel

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September 5, 2023
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Photoshop CS2 was better and faster. Adobe has no idea what they are doing with the new brushes setup. It now takes takes ten ~~1o0~~ minutes to do what you used to do in two minutes. And no whay to convert back to legacy styled windows. I lived with the "right-click" and now it sucks!

[EDIT: "1o0" edited to "ten" as per further post from OP]

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Joe297510473eagAuthor

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I have a typo... "It now takes takes 10 minutes to do what you used to do in two minutes." And by this, I do not mean one simple action, I mean the process of performing a task with multiple access to various brushes and finding colors. My number is not a hard "scentific fact." It's just an example. So, if a task once took me ten minutes, it now probably takes twelve or more... it all depends.

The cascading folder set up for colors and particuarly for brushes in no way improves performance, speed, or ergonomics. My best solution for colors was to remove as many of the folders as possible and creat my own folder that rreplicates the old Photoshop color grid. And to do this, I had to add BLACK swatches in order to get the colors to line up properly.

Accessing BRUSHES in seemingly never-ending cascade of folders is assinine. The BRUSHES folder selection is horrible and should have never been changed from the older grid style of picking brushes.

jane-e

Community Expert

@Joe297510473eag

It looks like you've got your swatches as you like them now, so it should be easier going forward.

Do one more thing:

Select your swatches (Shift key)
then go to the Swatches panel menu in the upper right and export them so you can import them later if needed.
Export Selected Swatches creates an .aco file that can be used in Photoshop
Export for Exchange creates an .ase file that can be used in PS, AI, and ID

Same with the Brushes. I didn't care for the old swatches, as they seemed random. Create your own and put them in one or more groups, then use the panel menu to export to an .abr file so you can import them and not go through the work a second time.

Jane

jane-e

Community Expert

@Joe297510473eag

I've branched your post from a 6-year-old thread to a new thread for you.

Please tell us why it's taking you an hour and forty minutes to do what used to take you two minutes. Screenshots will help us to help you. It's not clear what your issues are —only that it's taking longer.

These links may also help:

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/how-to/photoshop-brushes-intro.html

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/creating-modifying-brushes.html

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/painting-tools.html

Jane