Okay, I'm downloading a lot of different brushes at this site and I'm putting them into the adobe photoshop cs3 folder on my computer.
However, how do I organize my brushes?
They're all mixed into that one tablet where you choose your brush shapes, size, etc and I gotta scroll down through a mess of scrolls.
Is there anyway to organize it on photoshop so I can go in and see brushes organized into catagories so I can pick it better?
Also, I can't take it out of photoshop unless I go in and right click and delete them manually, anyway to delete them faster? I even delete the abr file but its still in my photoshop when I open it.
Adobe Photoshop CS3. How To Organize Brushes?
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DriftRoot
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I haven't used CS3 (I'll be skipping to CS4 shortly), but hopefully brush-related matters are similar to CS2:
Make sure your brush files are saved in the Photoshop>Presets>Brushes folder and not hanging out somewhere else. Unless you're downloading single-brush .ABR files or want to micro-manage your brush sets, you probably want them to load into Photoshop as sets which appear towards the bottom of the Brush palette.
If you want to load a set and have it replace all the other brushes currently loaded, just select the set you want from that listing at the bottom of the Brush palette. You should be given a message that asks whether you want to replace the old brushes with the new or append them. Since you want to replace, hit "Ok" and you should be all set (no pun intended...).
You can also select "Reset Brushes" from the brush palette flyout menu and then browse to the brush file itself. This is what you have to do if your .ABR files are not in the Brushes preset folder. Unless you have tons of brush sets and don't want Photoshop trying to display them all at the bottom of the Brush palette, though, I recommend saving your .ABR files in the Brush presets folder because it's just quicker to find and load them that way.
If you just go straight to "Load Brushes" you won't be given that append/replace option and it will append the new set by default, resulting in tons of sets of brushes all loaded at once, which sounds like the scenario you've run into.
If things ever get too crazy or you want to get back to your basic Photoshop brushes, select the "Reset Brushes" option. ^_^
If you have single brushes from particular sets that you would like to build into a new set, then you should use the Brush Preset Manager (found in the Brush palette flyout menu). Basically all you do is load the sets containing the desired brushes, then delete the brushes you don't want and save the remainder as a new, custom brush set. You can delete them one at a time or hold down Shift or Control (yes, I am a PC user) to delete multiple brushes.
Make sure your brush files are saved in the Photoshop>Presets>Brushes folder and not hanging out somewhere else. Unless you're downloading single-brush .ABR files or want to micro-manage your brush sets, you probably want them to load into Photoshop as sets which appear towards the bottom of the Brush palette.
If you want to load a set and have it replace all the other brushes currently loaded, just select the set you want from that listing at the bottom of the Brush palette. You should be given a message that asks whether you want to replace the old brushes with the new or append them. Since you want to replace, hit "Ok" and you should be all set (no pun intended...).
You can also select "Reset Brushes" from the brush palette flyout menu and then browse to the brush file itself. This is what you have to do if your .ABR files are not in the Brushes preset folder. Unless you have tons of brush sets and don't want Photoshop trying to display them all at the bottom of the Brush palette, though, I recommend saving your .ABR files in the Brush presets folder because it's just quicker to find and load them that way.
If you just go straight to "Load Brushes" you won't be given that append/replace option and it will append the new set by default, resulting in tons of sets of brushes all loaded at once, which sounds like the scenario you've run into.
If things ever get too crazy or you want to get back to your basic Photoshop brushes, select the "Reset Brushes" option. ^_^
If you have single brushes from particular sets that you would like to build into a new set, then you should use the Brush Preset Manager (found in the Brush palette flyout menu). Basically all you do is load the sets containing the desired brushes, then delete the brushes you don't want and save the remainder as a new, custom brush set. You can delete them one at a time or hold down Shift or Control (yes, I am a PC user) to delete multiple brushes.
