TOO MANY BRUSHES!

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claytonreiners
Apr 24, 2007
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Ok, so as of recent I have found a few things out…

I downloaded and inputted about 220ish brushes into Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended

When opening the brushes in Photoshop there are so many that the list of brushes goes off the screen and you can’t even select every available set.

I attempted to divide up all the brushes into folders (since this works in CS2) inside the preset>brushes directory. I did so using the first letter for the folder, so presets>brushes>A for sets that start with A, presets>brushes>B for sets with a B etc…

I closed/reopened Photoshop and it still reads all the brush sets but as one huge list still, not seperated into individual sets like with CS2.

any other ideas?

Thanks
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Ed_Hannigan
Apr 24, 2007
Use Edit>Presets Manager to organize things. But you will have to get rid of the old list too, also in Presets Manager.
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claytonreiners
Apr 24, 2007
That will only allow me to make different sets of brushes, meaning ill have a few sets of like 75 brushes each, is that my only option? If I wanted to keep them all in seperate sets it appears my only option is to choose to load a new set and choose from my file list instead of having a list of brushes 200 sets long then, right?
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Ed_Hannigan
Apr 24, 2007
Sorry, I guess I am just not understanding the problem.

Seems to me with the Preset Manager you can make and save whatever list of brushes you want of any size you want. Mix and match.
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claytonreiners
Apr 24, 2007
Im sorry, let me try and explain it a little better then!

I have a bunch of sets of brushes saved in my presets folder, like Wedding Brushes, Smoke Brushes, Etc… each with about 25-50 brushes in each set. I have so many of these sets that when I go to change my set of brushes in CS3 the list extends past the side of my screen and I can only access up through the S’s (as far as the title) in the sets of brush’s. If I combine them all then I will have one set of brushes with 5000 brushes, and finding the brush I want to use would take even longer.

I guess what I really want to know, is in CS2 you can seperate sets of brushes into sub folders and when you go to choose a new brush the menu has sub catagories for each set, but in CS3 if you seperate them into different subfolders it still reads them all individually and makes one HUGE list of the sets of brushes. Do you know how to divide them up into Sub Sets instead of individual sets?
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THA_icarus
Jun 7, 2007
I have the same problem. this should have a Easy fix????
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dave_milbut
Jun 7, 2007
in the context menu you should be able to reset to default.
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THA_icarus
Jul 22, 2007
<br/>By tha1icarus <http://profile.imageshack.us/user/tha1icarus>Screen shot of all my brunches…
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Ed_Hannigan
Jul 22, 2007
Can you organize them in Preset

I’d just put them aside in another location until they’re needed. No one needs that many Brushes at once.

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