Custom brushes access

Hello folks,

Here is a workflow I use that works today, it's pretty fast and efficient and needs very little effort. You do need an inexpensive utility called Mystic Thumbs. Currently this solution only works in Windows but I am looking into a similar solution for OSX. Here is a short 8 min video of the process.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa5duyA-QYc

Ara

http://www.kermaco.com

Couldn't agree more.

I would add as well the possibility to preview  brushsets before loading them.

Folder editability, drag and drop sorting capabilities.

The preset manager needs to adhere to criteria of usability first. Since it's a professional tool it needs to be well designed and be easy to use.

Will keep an eye on this thread.

Marco.Caradonna

http://www.macalabs.com/

I agree, the current way brushes are organised in Photoshop are not very friendly for the digital painters. I would really like to see a better system. It's one of those things that can make the next update of PS CC a must have!

May i propose an elgant solution gentelmen?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/5074048/special-dedicated-editing-keyboard-for-photoshop

Photoshop veteran here too. Not limited to but using ps every day for painting.

I fully concur with David about the bad brush preset management causing frustration on a daily basis.

I like his mockup idea.

A more structured and more emergent and more real-time adaptive and fluid brush preset menu would be a great mercy for painters of our sort.

Thank you

Erik Jakobsson

As a concept artist myself, I do go through the troubles mentioned by David. The suggestions that he has come up with will be most useful in speeding up my workflow. Hope it happens !

Regards,

Nishan Kumar.

I completly back this up! I have also been using Photoshop for at least 10 years and the brush organization is just terrible, there is just no way around it. I think going the tabbed system in the style of Zbrush or other 3d programs is a fantastic idea.

I think they're pretty good ideas, and simply because we've got used to some way of working, doesn't mean we can't have improvements on the software. We are humans and we adapt quite easily
So, I fully support vyle art text.

Totally agreed! Presets manager and brush window needs a huge revamp. I support David on this matter.

Thanks!

www.emrahelmasli.com

vyle art wrote: My name is David and I have been a photoshop user since 1992. Best regards,

Is there a 12 Steps program for that?

I decided to sort my huge list of brushes out quite recently.  I went through each set hoping to delete some of the never used brushes, but found very few that I could do without, but what I did do is rename the sets starting with a meaningful name, followed by just enough information to identify the original source.  So my brushes are now grouped alphabetically with names like Abstract, Trees, Flares, Stars, Fire, Smoke, Explosions, Water etc.

I really wish I'd gone through this simple process years ago, because it is such an obvious thing to do, and has made my sets so much easier and faster to find.

One of my favourite sets is Flare_brushes_by_Karl_S2 which has the perfect naming strategy.  That is probably one of the reasons it is one of my favourites.

I also started a thread here recently about closing the brush panel after selecting the brush or set, and came out of that with a few improvements to my workflow.

• I open the panel with the lower pen switch, and it is not always in a convenient place because I tend to keep the panel on the large size.  But simply moving the pen to a better location and clicking the bottom switch again, moves the top left corner of the panel to that location.

• I have historically closed the on screen brush panel by touching the pen down outside the canvas, but I often use big brushes that overspill onto the canvas.  I don't like reaching across the pen with my left hand to hit the enter key, and my sense of mechanical sympathy makes me baulk at double tapping the pen on the chosen brush to close the panel.  I am _trying_ to get used to double tapping on the brush I want, but I have also programed the lowermost Express key on my Intuos 4 to 'Enter', and done the same thing to the bottom left programmable key on my Logitech G110 gaming keyboard.  So I have three methods which I use according to where my hands are and whatever is most convenient.

I will definitely go through and fine tune my brush set names again, but I think I'll be good to go after that, and I wouldn't want to start typing in a search parameter into a revamped brush panel, and there are way too many categories to give them all a tab.  No, I think I am happy with how things are now I have got the hang of it after all these years!