A circle is a versatile shape for masking, and when used with edge detection of the Perfect Brush, the standard circular brush can handle many masking jobs. What Is A Custom Brush?īy default, the Masking Brush tool uses a circle as the brush head. If you missed the article introducing the Masking Brush, read that and then come on back. This article explains custom brush shapes in the Masking Brush tool. This article is part of a mini-series about the masking features in ON1 Photo RAW and ON1 Effects. Ready to buy? Use the offer code SDP20 at checkout and SAVE 20% ! There is no extra cost to you and it helps support ON1 tutorials like this one. That’s it folks! Hope this method help you organise Photoshop brushes and save your time finding them.If you are trying ON1 Photo RAW, the ON1 plug-ins like ON1 Effects or ON1 HDR, or upgrading your ON1 software to a newer version, please consider using my affiliate link. You can just group brushes with the same theme into a single preset. This method will come in particularly handy if you have several brushsets with the same theme, as such cloud, smoke or fire brushes. That’s it! Next time you want to use these brushes, you can simply use the “Replace Brushes” feature on the brush panel:Īnd you will see only the brushes within that preset! Much cleaner, isn’t it: Once you finish the selection, click on “Save Set…”:Ĭhoose a folder and name your brushes to save with, and press “Save”: Open the preset manager, then simply hold down the Ctrl key and left-click on the brushes you would like to group: Once the brush preset panel is on, click on the “Preset Manager” button down the bottom of the panel:
Now let’s begin – firstly go into Window > Brush Presets and turn on the brush preset panel: If you want to save time and find your desired brush quickly, it’s important to save them into groups using the Preset Manager. In this post, I will show you a handy way to use Adobe Preset Manager to organise Photoshop brushes.Īs we download more and more Photoshop brushes off the net and load them into Photoshop, they become quite disorganised and you will find it’s getting harder & harder to locate certain brush (like this screenshot below, I have hundreds of brushes all cramped into one panel): As time goes by you will have download thousands of these brushes and it’s hard to manager.
I love custom Photoshop brushes and there are tons of these over the internet.