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January 5, 2017
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Photoshop CC Managing Brushes Presets

  • January 5, 2017
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Greetings and Happy New Year to one and all! I’m writing a book about digital photo-painting using Adobe Photoshop CC. During my research about management of digital brushes within the Brush Preset library, I’m trying to figure out the best way to manage brushes. For example within a brush preset  library, how can you re-order the brushes – i.e. move a brush within the library list so I can group like brushes together within the library. In the past according to my research (I originally started writing this book using Adobe Photoshop CS5), you could click to highlight the brush you want to move within the Brush Preset Library. Then click and hold the mouse and move the brush to the new location within the Brush Preset Library. Then save the library so that when you open the library the brush will be displayed in the new order. Because I want the book to be current, I recently upgraded to Photoshop CC 2017. When I attempted to perform this activity, I found the brush would not move to the new location. It appears there has been a change. Any suggestions? Another challenge is moving a brush from one Brush Preset Library to another. For example I had a tree brushes that I downloaded from different Internet site in three different Brush Preset Libraries. Each of these brushes are part of larger brush presets. For example, out of 50 brush presets I downloaded from Photoshop Creative magazine – five brushes are of trees. Three tree brush from another package of 25 brushes. I wanted to combine the brushes another 10 brushes from a package 75 brushes). In the past if I wanted to move one or more brushes from one Brush Preset Library to another, I had to load all the different brush presets into memory, making for a huge list. Then manually delete the brushes I did not want in my new library. Then save the brush preset library to a new name (example Trees). The go back to the other libraries and remove the brushes that had been move to the new brush preset library and save the library. Needless to say this was a long, slow, convoluted process. Has Adobe come up with a faster way to manage brush presets? I thank you for your time and assistance in this matter Peter Smolens P.B.S. Studios Manassas, VA 20112 Ph: 703.346.5026 e-mail: psmolens@pbsstudios.com

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Correct answer Anastasiy Safari

You can try my new brush management plugin called MagicSquire. It lets you organize Brush Presets and Tool Presets in a convenient way using groups, color coding, drag'n'drop and much more!

You can write me directly if you have questions or need more features!

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Anastasiy Safari
Anastasiy SafariCorrect answer
Inspiring
January 31, 2017

You can try my new brush management plugin called MagicSquire. It lets you organize Brush Presets and Tool Presets in a convenient way using groups, color coding, drag'n'drop and much more!

You can write me directly if you have questions or need more features!

Trevor.Dennis
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Trevor.DennisCommunity Expert
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January 31, 2017

That's interesting Anastasiy.   I've been using, and loving BrushBox since it was released, and your product looks very similar.  How do they compare?  They look very similar indeed, and have been available for about the same time.

How well does MagicSquire interact with the standard Photoshop brush engine?  Can we use the standard engine to load brush sets etc without confusing MagicSquire?   Can we mix brush and tool presets in the same folder?

Here's a big one for you...  Can I create custom folders with MS, and save and close them, so I can reopen them at a later date?

Is there a user guide or other documentation we can download?

I'm looking at the 1.3 vs Trial version comparison.  Can we get a time limited fully functioning 1.3?  With BrushBox as an alternative, people are going to need to properly evaluate both panels.

[EDIT]  OK, lots of good info on your Facebook page.

Photoshop Panels | Facebook

Anastasiy Safari
Anastasiy Safari
Inspiring
January 31, 2017

Thank you for questions and the feedback!

How well does MagicSquire interact with the standard Photoshop brush engine?  Can we use the standard engine to load brush sets etc without confusing MagicSquire?   Can we mix brush and tool presets in the same folder?

No problem! There are no limitations. You can remove, sort, delete or rename brushes in Photoshop without a doubt. You can do the same with MagicSquire. Photoshop's Brushes/Tools and MagicSquire live quite independently and they don't conflict with each other! Do whatever you like And you can totally mix Brushes and Tool Presets in the same folder or drag'n'drop them between folders.

Here's a big one for you...  Can I create custom folders with MS, and save and close them, so I can reopen them at a later date?

You can create a group, add brushes to it and then close it. The closed group will stay on the panel as a small label and when you click on the label, the group would open up displaying all the brushes you have inside it.

Is there a user guide or other documentation we can download?

I have a detailed video and MagicSquire's manual/FAQ describing all MagicSquire features up to version 1.3. Version 1.3 came out recently, it introduces more tools, like the new Compact Mode that acts as a replacement for right-click brush view and more. I also post tutorials for MagicSquire on the Facebook page from time to time!

Hope it helps!

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