I'm just a tiny bit concerned about how this works, and if the presets will survive a major version update? My preferred method of adding .abr brush groups is, for Windows. This maintains the separate .abr files so you can add to, remove, and most importantly, back them up. By @Trevor.Dennis Hi TD, not sure whom you were replying to here, but I'm in the mood to chat. Until early this year, I was Exporting my brushes, every time I made a change, to the default Presets folder at Users/username/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop 20XX/Presets, and then replacing my master copies in a folder on my data drive that is automatically backed up to iCloud and Time Machine. (You know, it might be a helpful clue to users, who keep losing their brushes and customized groups, if Ps would just change that one command from Export Selected Brushes... to Save Selected Brushes...) In February on this forum you gave me an idea for how I could cut out a step by puting a shortcut in the Presets folder and thereby export directly into my personal folder that gets automatically backed up. I owe you one for that! This system is working really well for me, and the major update to Ps 2024 was swiftly accomplished. I save all the brushes I want to keep, including the ones shipped with PS and the legacy ones, in my personal folder to avoid the confusion of whether I've reviewed and saved this or that traunch of brushes that Ps sends. Like you, I keep the sets I use all the time loaded in the Brushes panel, and when I need to load or delete a special brush set, they all move in and out of and that one folder. As long as I don't get lazy and immediately export the occasional change I make to a set, I'm good as gold. I do the same exact thing for eight other types of presets that I occasionally use. Some would ask, "How can you stand to go to so much trouble?" Well, half of my career was in records management, a field that I loved, and I was responsible for setting up paper, then digital, filing systems and training employees how to use the database from their work stations. I documented how the system worked in a plain-English manual for the technology-averse, and I'm an avid writer so that was fun, too. Now that I'm retired I amuse myself delving into computer programs like Photoshop, Bridge, and the Windows and Mac operating systems and writing step-by-step, best practice how-to's for all their functions so that I never have to worry about forgetting something I've learned. I collect art and always wanted to make art, but I grew bored quickly with traditional art mediums. Photoshop has proven to be the creative tool that locks in my attention. I make digital narrative collages, figurative and non-figurative mandalas, and dabble in drawing abstract pictures. I do feel for folks who lose their presets or who spend days organizing their brushes and then see it all revert. If I was ever going to make a an instructional pamphlet available on Amazon, it would be on how to manage presets! It's a wonder someone who needs the money hasn't done it already. I guess most of the lucky ones who've been taught or taught themselves how to do this are already gainfully employed using Photoshop in their jobs.
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