ORGANISING BRUSHES IN PHOTOSHOP

i'll have this thread deleted once answered.

i need to know how to get my brushes organised, because i've downloaded a hell of a lot and installed them. when i click to get a new brush, the list takes up the whole screen and only goes to "d".
i have tried putting them in folders and grouping them together, ie. bloob brushes in blood folder, fractle in fractle ect... but once ps is loaded, it doesn't seem to make a difference.

help would be appreciated.

 

I have the same problem, I hope someone can answer this.

Thanks Sid.

 

i just rar the ones i dont use and unrar the ones i use. or put your brushes to some other folder than brushes and use the load brush feature



now the brushes are default in presets/brushes.
make new folder in presets/ie b2 /

 

That's what I have been doing, kind of a pain in the ass, so I was hoping for something else.

Thanks Jay!

 

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cool, that seems to be the solution i was after! i'll try it now. :thumbs:

 

http://abrviewer.sourceforge.net/

 

http://www.scrapgirls.com/tutorial_organizing_your_brush_files_in_Photoshop_or_PhotoshopElements.htm

 

What you need to do is merge your abr.files and save them as presets in PS.

Start PS and go to Edit/Preset Manager (a window will pop up)
On the upper right, click on the "play" button.
You'll get a list of all your brushes (note: if there's too many, like you have, you'll need to divide them into several folders as Jay said or you won't see them all)

Now click one you want and click "load" and then "append". Repeat this step to append other brush sets.

Then click inside the window on a random brush so the option "save set" will become avaiable. Give it a name and it will be saved in your Adobe CS3 folder.

Next time you open PS just go to Edit/Preset Mananger and click "load". This will open the CS3 folder and you can choose any merged preset brush set.

Note that the preset can become quite large but if you want you can always delete brushes you really don't want by right clicking on them and "delete brush".

Of course first you'll need to view your brushes to determine which you want to group.
After that you can delete the seperate abr.files in the original brushes folder.

PS: it's not the quantity of brush sets but rather the quality of brushes that are important.

 

very true tc.
i have just deleted a LOT of brushes because they were shit. i hand pick mine. i don't think i'll bulk download brushes again.

 

Most brush sets contain some good and some bad brushes.
When you loaded them just right click and delete the ones you don't like.
This way you'll trim the set to the ones you want.
After that save 'em as a preset and discard the original abr.files 'cause they'll eat up your RAM and thus performance in PS.

I explained this earlier on the fonts issue but you can increase PS to perform better.
Got to Edit/Preferences/Performance; here you can increase the amount of RAM PS is allowed to use. Increase if your PC is up for it.
You can also lower the "history states" (number of UNDO steps) and "cache levels" so PS doesn't have to record so much you're doing.

 

Well written CF.
Another option is to save or categorized your brushes into sets and save then as presets.

For Example, I have all my blood type brushes in a sub-folder on my computer. Utilizing the preset manager, I gather them all together into one complete set, give that set a name, then save it. So, when I need the use of blood brushes, I go to that set and load it.

Large sets of brushes, fonts, etc. will take longer times to load and burn up computer resources. Breaking them up like this reduces that. It takes time, but worth it.

 

That's what I explained in my first post ... merging brush sets, delete the seperate brushes you don't want and then saving as preset in the preset manager.

 

And ofcourse: just don't use so many brushes . I have a few splatterbrushes. some grunge, some vector and that's about it.

There are so many settings that the possibilities are endless with those few sets.