Managing Brushes

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Chuck Norris
Jul 23, 2004
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Ok, here goes.

I have worn Google out looking for a 3rd party brush management tool for Photoshop and came up empty. The preset manager in PS CS is just NOT working for me. You can’t import more than one brush at a time, and with the amount I have created + downloaded, I probably have about 500 – 600 brushes. It just is too lacking in too many areas for me to use effectively.

I do use some plugin and font managers which do exactly what I want (Typograph, Plugin Manger) and am basically looking for ANY 3rd party utility that operates similar to these programs. TIA for any advise.
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edjh
Jul 24, 2004
Chuck Norris wrote:
Ok, here goes.

I have worn Google out looking for a 3rd party brush management tool for Photoshop and came up empty. The preset manager in PS CS is just NOT working for me. You can’t import more than one brush at a time, and with the amount I have created + downloaded, I probably have about 500 – 600 brushes. It just is too lacking in too many areas for me to use effectively.

I do use some plugin and font managers which do exactly what I want (Typograph, Plugin Manger) and am basically looking for ANY 3rd party utility that operates similar to these programs. TIA for any advise.

If you put the brushes in the Presets folder and use Preset Manager to make sets of brushes it should work quite well. I don’t think there are any third party brush managers.

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Chuck Norris
Jul 24, 2004
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 00:01:35 GMT, edjh wrote:

Chuck Norris wrote:
Ok, here goes.

I have worn Google out looking for a 3rd party brush management tool for Photoshop and came up empty. The preset manager in PS CS is just NOT working for me. You can’t import more than one brush at a time, and with the amount I have created + downloaded, I probably have about 500 – 600 brushes. It just is too lacking in too many areas for me to use effectively.

I do use some plugin and font managers which do exactly what I want (Typograph, Plugin Manger) and am basically looking for ANY 3rd party utility that operates similar to these programs. TIA for any advise.

If you put the brushes in the Presets folder and use Preset Manager to make sets of brushes it should work quite well. I don’t think there are any third party brush managers.

Yeah, I have looked and looked and can’t find any. The problem with the preset manager is that if you put all your brushes in the preset folder, and you have more than, say, 500, you can’t see all of them. So I obviously want to make them into smaller, contiguous sets, and would like to have all of them available to me. But, if I do that, A: I cannot simply import a folder of brushes, I have to select one at a time (VERY tedious if you have more than but a few) B: if I put them in the presets folder and then move them, the presets will no longer be able to find the brushes and I’m back to square 1. C: if I keep the brushes in there own folder, I have no way to see what the brushes look like unless I load the brush, and bouncing back between the preset folder and the stored brush folder is a pain in the you know what as well… SO… Hence I’m looking or a third party utility.

It really is a large oversite on Adobe’s part not to allow simply being able to load more than one brush at a time. They went through the trouble of adding the preset manager, which is a great addition to the program, but handicap it by not enabling multiple selections just seems silly to me.

BUT, I have an idea, however bad it may be, but I will separate the brushes into categorized folders beforehand, and then import the brushes ONE by ONE to make a preset. Pain in the butt still, but better than having to bounce back and forth from folder to folder.

Thanks for your response, but I think I knew the answer before I asked it. Never hurts to ask though, and if anyone has heard of a utility such as this, let me know. If any coders are lurking around here, killer app that I’d certainly buy.
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Hecate
Jul 25, 2004
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 20:29:22 -0400, Chuck Norris
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Thanks for your response, but I think I knew the answer before I asked it. Never hurts to ask though, and if anyone has heard of a utility such as this, let me know. If any coders are lurking around here, killer app that I’d certainly buy.

Or, a more expensive solution – buy Painter and use the brushes there. Much better than PS any day for that sort of thing. 🙂

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