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

Oh and multiple tagging of brushes at one given time (Similar to how iTunes handles meta data) shift+click Edit meta data. Do 20 brushes at one time. Halleujah!

About the Meta thing--Be good if as you're creating it, you could have an autofill option. Doesn't Photoshop already have that somewhere? I mean the meta data for the document.

You could store the meta data as a profile maybe? So drag down to name equals:

Author:
Website:
Email:
(Address info?)

If you do it by profile, separate those native to the user/favorited at the top v. the ones that are not native to the user. (If you consider adding them all) I have multiple places I distribute resources... so I'd need multiple profiles. Basically the easier you make it for people to fill out, the more likely they'll use that feature and the end user (i.e. the user of the brushes) is more likely to share their good will.

Then separate meta data from the profile would be:
Tags: (Butterfly, wings, for example)

The meta would then be searchable. Narrow the search by author or tag. I think mostly people are interested in the tags rather than the other meta. But then they want to see the other meta when they use the brush so they can remember to give credit. If you use the last used brushes thing, or brushes used in a project, this would make it easier.

Maybe you could see it by hover, or it would appear when you click the brush at the top or below the pane. (though you probably should have a turn off feature by a check box or by the preferences pane--not sure which people would prefer?)

I know that people like giving artists credit for making their resources, but currently it is really difficult to do so. So this spreads good will to all in the Photoshop community as more people give proper credit. That's user experience on a community level?

I know websites do similar things... so I'm not sure if Photoshop could manage it--though I assume it can.

I would like to see better brush management in PS CS6. Tabs or folders would help me keeping all brushes well organized directly in Brush Presets panel. Something similar to bookmarks in web browser would be good start.

It would be a huge improvement if the swatches in Photoshop could be grouped like in illustrator.

Chris - I see that now... by copying the swatch into the "Color Swatches" directory and restarting Photoshop, you get the file name as an option from the drop down. I was of the opinion that that folder wasn't for specific, project-related swatch files since it initially contains industry recognized color sets. Thanks for showing me this!

I've yet to make this work. Error at line 1. Thanks for sharing all the same.

awesome thanks! I'll have a look. dont worry I know nothing about java scripting =p.
I'm just interested in trying new things. It looks neat.

I'll let you know how it goes.

Sure, no problems. I only hope that no one who really knows JavaScript would look inside because the code is terrible and the someone'd have a heart attack, but since I only use this for myself I'm alright with the bad code.
Unzip this http://t52.cyberpunk.ru/Archive.zip to Scripts folder of PS, relaunch PS, in Filter menu you'll see 'Brushes of Wisdom'.
If you'll look inside the .jsx file you'll notice buttons calling a function with passing a brush preset name as an argument. Basically that's how it works.

interesting!! Oddly, I've never heard of JS scripts for photoshop even after using it for more than 10 years haha.

What about that brush preset script you have? The screenshot you uploaded. Possible to share that one ( if you created it) of link me to where you found it? I'd like to play around with it and see how it works. I'm very curious.
No worries if you cant! Just thought I'd ask 😃

THANKS.

Basically this is a JS-script that creates a dialogue window (the same window you often see with JS alerts all over the web) with links to brush presets, binded to a key.

I've got several scripts at my CGhub account http://kritskiy.cghub.com/scripts/, the 'awesome layers' creates exactly the same window. Sources're not protected so feel free to look inside how it works. If you're interested I'd recommend to spend some time and look through forum at ps-scripts.com, there're tons of JS code snippets and people there are very friendly. I could create a lot of PS interface tweaks with scripts for myself without any knowledge in JS.