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

The number of brushes often snowball if you're an illustrator/painter.

It would be great to be able to sort brushes into folders and/or color code them in order to easily create categories without having to go through the extra steps of loading new brush libraries.

The functionality of sorting the brushes into folders and color coding them could exist in the preset manager.
In the right click brush list you should then be able to expand/contract the folders just like in the layers menu.

You should be able to do this, also put them in custom categories, sort them by date added and other criteria. Simple database programming... One would think.

I agree - the brush size alone should not make for a new preset. This way the "recent" brushes palette becomes indeed close to useless!

This forum works best if you post one idea per topic - so they can be discussed and voted on separately (and merged into the existing topics separately).

Hello.
I think it could be great to add color highlight option in tool presets window. Something similar to what we have in layers window. it could help to classify the tools and help us to "find the right tool" faster.
Also ability to update tool presets could be helpful. as checkbox for updating every adjustment, or a button to save adjustments made to current tool.

and one more: while i work i adjust the working space on the fly by moving opened windows around a lot. For example moving the color window closer to the area i work with. It takes extra aim to click the bar above the window to pick it up. It would be great if if i could by click ctrl+LMB anywhere on any window to pick it up and move it around. (not necessary ctrl+lmb)

Cheerz 🙂

It would be very helpful to have nested folders for preset. That way I could have my name on a folder a and have subfolders for things such as exposure and highlights. With the use of subfolders it would speed workflow up.

I like most of us have a ton of brushes and the way Adobe allows "sets" to organize is just not enough. Can we in the near future look forward to custom name or keyword driven searches of brushes?

I am very happy with the the pop-up brush presets remembering latest brushes. BUT for a long time i wanted to be able to distinguish my brushes QUICK. Couldn't you let the user giver the brush a name AND a color so I quickly can see my BEST brushes. or even have grouping possibility of brushes.

would be nice to have tree/accordion view for Actions in button mode. also groups/folders for multiple presets like ACR develop presets, LUT preset list.

It's not that this idea is inherently hard to do, but I know it's completely boring program, though it's one of the longest running and most popular of the ideas for Photoshop, the ones that came after and were done were interesting to program because they had new fangled things to them.

And most of the UX before were easy fixes. This lies between boring and nothing new since they are repeating something over 10-20 years old in concept--which is why it should have been done around that time anyway. And if I know programmers, they hate this part the most.

Hey, if it makes the programmers feel better, you can always use a search which features no need to press the search button, but finds it as you type it. But that's about as new as it gets with making folders and giving credit to the creators for things like presets and fonts. Though I would think being able to attach a folder to a project as you work might be an interesting aspect for the professionals to try to do a little better.