Now we will do the same thing we few minutes ago. Click lmb on the canvas, click on the arrow in the upper right corner, and now select the Preset Manager...

And you will get Adobe Photoshop CS2 Preset Manager, or just Preset Manager to be informal. :)

Here you can se the default set of brushes in your brushes pallet. Now here is what are we going to do.
Select the Load button on the right side, and load any set of brushes you have. It is not imperative to be something meaningful we are just practicing. I hope. :)

The Load window is opened at C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2\Presets\Brushes\Adobe Photoshop Only\ off course that doesn’t mean that its the same on your computer. Basically, it is on the drive and folder where you have installed Photoshop, but this example is most common.
I think it’s the same with Mac’s.

I will select Dry Media Brushes, you select what ever you have or want. And click Load.
Now we are back at Preset Manager and as you can see I added the brushes from the Dry Media Brushes to my current set.

Now if I press Done right away I will be back in Photoshop with the current displayed brush set. And I can start using them right away.
But lets do just a bit over the top, shall we?

Step IV
Since we are working with no more than 100 brushes this is not a problem, but when you have 500+ brushes things can be a bit slow in moments.

Before we start I would like to bring to your attention that brushes in Preset Manager can be sorted the way you want.
By simple drag n’ drop technique. Click lmb on the desired brush and drag it to its new destination.
You will se the symbol ][ that shows where will the brush be laid off.

This can be helpful for the Shift deletion of the brushes in Preset Manger, because you can make a linear line of brushes you want to delete.

You don’t need to use them all at the same time, so I wounded up making my own every day set of about 250 brushes that I use often.
Here is how to do it.

Select any brush you seem that you don’t need or don’t want by clicking on it lmb (left mouse button).
And you will be given two choices, Rename Brush... or Delete Brush.

The Rename Brush... option will rename the brush, but I don’t care much in naming them, so this is on your personal choice and time.
Second is to Delete Brush from set.
Which I will use, and voila, its gone!
Also you can use the Delete button on the right side of the window if it’s easier to you.

Nevertheless, if you want to delete more brushes at once, you can use default OS choice selection keys Ctrl (or Cmd on Mac) and Shift. Here how it’s done.

Step IV – Shift key
Selection with a Shift key is simple. Shift is good when you want to delete number of brushes in the row.
Just hold down the Shift key, click rmb (right mouse button) click on the first (or the last) in line for deleting and select the last one (or the first one). Release the Shift key and then you can delete.

You will notice that the selected one’s have black edge around them. The process for deleting is somewhat different from the one described above. Because the deleting can only be done with the Delete button on the right side of the window.
NOTE! There is no Are you sure question when you click Delete button.

Step IV – Ctrl (or Cmd on Mac) key
The selection with Ctrl (or Cmd on Mac) key has its good sides, you can select brushes in the non-linear way.
Hold down the Ctrl key (or Cmd on Mac) and select any brush in the Preset Manager you want to delete.

I have selected a numerous brushes randomly, just to show you how it can be done.

The deletion process is the same as the Shift key. You must use the Delete button on the right side of the screen.
NOTE! There is no Are you sure question when you click Delete button.

Step V
Now when we have done editing our everyday brush pallet we would like to save it now, even dough if we click Done right away we will have them in our set, and can use them.
Consider this as an insurance of what we did.

As you are now in Preset Manager window click on the Save Set... button. And it will open exactly the same window as we had with opening brushes, except this is saving. :)

Give it some proper name, like Everyday Brushes and click Save, and then to close Preset Manager click Done. The brush will be saved in the same, default, folder from which you have loaded previous brush set.

Trivia:

The brush set you just saved will not appear in list when you click the arrow in the upper right corner of context menu. It will appear only after you load it for the first time from by selecting Load Brushes...

That’s it folks! :)
Now you have learned how to manage your brushes sets.

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**author: Nemanja Ćosović *