Brush Settings Not Saving

[mvs94]

Hey guys, I've been having an issue with Photoshop for about 2 days now and haven't been able to find a solution.

I've had an issue in the past where changing the settings of one brush was affecting all of my brushes, turns out I was just selecting the brush tip shape and not the actual brushes, but now I'm having a problem where none of my brush settings are being saved properly when I navigate away from them even when I don't touch the brush tip shapes. I will make a brush with custom settings, save it as a preset, then select a different brush from my brush list (not the brush tip panel), and said brush will have at least some of the same settings from the previous brush I worked with. 

For example: I have a simple embroidery brush that has angle jitter set to 'direction', I'll save it as a preset, then click on my sketching brush and it will have the same angle jitter. I'll fix my sketch brush back to the way I like it and save it as a preset, then go back to my embroidery brush and it'll have lost its angle jitter, etc.

I've tried resetting my preferences, followed the steps to create a brush preset exactly, and I'm legit at a loss at this point lol. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated!

[War Unicorn · Accepted solution]

I'm trying to repro but cannot seem to do so; any settings I make in a preset are retained upon returning to the preset.

If resetting preferences didn't help, did you try an uninstall/reinstall yet (without keeping settings)?

[mvs94]

Hey there! Thanks for the reply! I was able to fix it after resetting everything, updating my drivers, and making sure the lock icons in the brush setting panel weren't locked. Thanks again for the help! 

[Anska]

Thank you for pointing out the thing with the locks! That's what solved it for me.

[Ravenmore]

Just ran into the same thing.

Eg. have a brush preset with Transfer turned on.

I turn it off, save as a new brush.

When I return to the brush transfer is back on. 😮