Photoshop brush properties not resetting

[pop-eye-doyle]

I've been having a bit of an issue with my brushes not keeping their original properties. For example, if I'm painting with the general 'Hard Round' brush then go to an imported 'Art Marker' style brush, when I return to the hard round brush the properties are the same as the previously used art marker brush, i.e the blending mode, size and flow are all the same as the 'art marker', but the brush tip shape is back to being 'hard round'. This seems to mainly effect the 'general' brushes and I can reset the brush in the options bar, but pretty sure I shouldn't need to do this manualy each time. Is there someting I'm overlooking?

Thanks.

[Sameer K]

Hey, @pop-eye-doyle. Welcome to the Photoshop Community. I'll help you figure this out. Please share a video of the system info from Photoshop Help > System info > Copy and paste into a text document > Upload and attach here.

I'll move this to discussions for now. In this case, you can begin by resetting the Brush tool itself. Right-click on the Tool icon in the Toolbar menu and select Reset Tool.

If this does not help, please ensure there are no stale preferences in your Photoshop. You can go to the location of the preference folder below and rename it to back it up. (https://adobe.ly/3u7u84j) This method is more effective compared to the in-app Reset Preferences at quit method. 

macOS: Hold down the Option key in the Finder when using the Go menu. The library will appear below the current user's home directory.

Library > Preferences > Adobe Photoshop [version] Settings

Rename the Adobe Photoshop folder by adding a .old at the end. (Adobe Photoshop 2025 > Rename > Adobe Photoshop 2025.old)

This will give a fresh start to Photoshop as a new installation.

Let me know if it helps. Thanks!
Sameer K

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