P: Better Preset Organization (sub-folders, tag, search)

The idea is pretty simple!

Having the ability to Group your Presets and more importantly Brushes and Tools, but also Swatches (like in Illustrator and InDesign)...

So that, we could organise presets, close or open the Group to have more place...

I would love the following two features:
1. The ability to organize brushes in folders
2. The ability to search a brush by name

I am a long time user of photoshop and this is dragging me down constantly. I might be using 5 brushes on a daily basis, but then I need a couple others, and it is really uncomfortable having to look for it in my long list of brushes.

The top two votes for Photoshop ideas is organization of presets, if you combine the votes it's 235, votes, taking into consideration overlap, this organization and rethought of brushes goes above most of the Lightroom ideas. Maybe it's time to think about implementation rather than considering it? It's long overdue. We've been asking for it for years now. Presets are a core feature of Photoshop that outdates most of the competitors, but even the competitors have organization while Photoshop does not.

Though, I'm against the whole coloring idea, for work flow, folders and custom folders would be nice in terms of UX, because colors are limited and harder to organize. I'm not against the folders being able to be colored, but purely coloring is not UX friendly.

Hi, I too have big problems with the brush palette. It hasnt been updated for years and today most artist I assume likes to have the entire brushpalette they use in one single palette.

ANyway, I wrote these suggestions on the Adobe forums:
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First of all, the actual representation of Brushes.
I personally like to have my entire brush library in one file, not swap between brush files when sketching, painting and so on, because I like to use all of my brushes with instant accessability.
But, it is SO hard to find the brushes. Especially because the generated icon most often doesnt represent the brushes look and behaviour at all. So often I do end up using just a few of them, because I don ́t remember and have to spend time looking for for those I havent used for a while.
This is how my brush palette looks:


You can clearly see how this is confuzing. I ́ve tried making some small brushes to show myself were the different paint, sketch, splatter, tree brushes etc are located. But it only helps so much.
Wouldn ́t it be a very nice feature if you could at least give them some visual prepresentation ? For example, you could colorize brushes the same way you can on layers. I would actually find it more useful on brushes than on layers.
Just look at this:



Also, I don ́t understand a couple of the features that are present. Currently when you right click you can select a brush, and if you hold down alt you can delete and ctrl to rename. But to move the brushes around you have to go into the Preset Manager. VERY OFTEN my wacom tablet locks itself so that when I select the next brush it Deletes it before I have time to react. And this has been a problem in photoshop on all the wacom tablets I ́ve tried. So I need to make sure to have the latest copy of my brushes always available to load up again.
In my honest opinions, you shouldn ́t be able to delete the brush from the right click brush panel. That ́s somethign you definately should only be able to do inside the manager or at least it shouldnt lock itself on the pen to autodelete the next time you click a brush. But MOVING the brushes on the other hand, should definately BE POSSIBLE in the right click menu. Because you want to try out the brush you want to move. Since this is like a palette, you need to test and then group them so that they stay in order. It ́s very annoying that you have to test the brush....then try to REMEMBER the location of that brush - go into the preset manager and try to find it, and then try to remember the location you wanted place it in. Do you see how difficult and tedious this is ?

I hope someone at Adobe reads this and consider to make some improvements to this menu.

PS! and another annoying this, is that if a brush is larger than a 1000px the leaps on the size slider suddenly jumps to 10x the amount. So its very hard to make a brush 1400 up to 1500 etc..

It would be great to be able to organize, favorite, and group brushes. It would also be nice to save certain setting for specific brushes in a simple and organized way. Also, a better way to view brushes would be nice. It's currently hard to look through brushes - especially when you download additional brushes online.

I would like to have the ability to add brushes to favorites and highlight in the menu for quicker access, show my most used brushes at the top of the list, and organize brush groups into folders. I work with a large amount of brushes and every time I need to find a brush it always takes me a couple of minutes, even if I remember where the brush is in the drop down selection menu. Organizing brushes into folders would allow me to save many minutes of looking through the menu. Also, highlighting the brushes I use for each project would be useful so I can go back and use them again without having to look through hundreds of brushes. A section of most used and recently used brushes would be important as well, so that one wouldn't even have to spend time highlighting brushes or organizing brushes, as the group would appear automatically. Even if only one of these topics was implemented into Photoshop, I'm sure it would save a huge amount of time and effort.

Thank you, Chris! I knew it should be somewhere =)

Still, better presets organisation would be much much better.

You can already select, delete, save, or reorder more than one brush at a time in the preset manager. That has been available since Photoshop 6.0.

Goog day. Maybe it's not very fresh thought but i didn't see any changes in this particular area for years, so there it is.

I am using photoshop as image manipulating, photo processing, design instrument and as a painting software. For painting it has very powerful brush settings, many presets and tuning points, but it's very hard to manipulate with active brush set. It's easy to add brush set from photoshop's or any custom third party set, but after being added those brushes stored as a big unsorted and unmarked pile. I can't see if i already add any brush set and if i am adding set that already been added i'll just get duplicated set of brushes. If i am downloading custom set that is gradually updating with new and new brushes (one of my favorite artists shares his brush set and updates it from time to time) i have to reset all my brushes and recreate the set again just for one or two new brushes — or i have lots of redundant brush duplicates.

I am suggesting to have some usable features for brush palette — maybe grouping added brushes in subsets with ability to edit/delete the whole subset or any brushes in it. Or, if it's impossible for some reason, it'd be good to be able at least to select and delete more than one brush at a time.

Thank you.

Hi there, long time user of Photoshop for illustration purposes!
1) I would love love LOVE to have a custom groups option in the brush selection menu, so that I can have my custom brushes loaded in and kept organized by type. It's painful having to scroll through that long list trying to find the right brush all the time, when I know exactly what I need, but not exactly where it is! I want to be able to add/delete said groups and name them just like you would for groups in the Layers pallet.Then when I click the drop-down arrow on that brush group, I would see the standard icon list of the brushes in that collection.

2) I'd like the option to click and drag the order of the brushes in the brush menu, so I can keep the ones I use most on top, without having to go in, delete one by one those I don't need... load in the ones I do in the right order...save out as a custom preset... load the preset back in... etc, etc.

If you created this, it would would be amazeballs.

Thanks!^^