Brush Photoshop Cs5
Matty Fiedler
After I select a particular brush, and then use it for a few minutes, sometimes I forget the name of the brush preset I'm using, so I got back into the tool presets window to see if it's still highlighted, but it isn't.
I've looked everywhere else to see where I can get the name of the current brush (which was seleted via tool presets panel, not brush presets panel), but I can't find it anywhere. Surely there has to be a way to do this? If anyone knows that would be great (I'm hoping this is a simple solution that I've overlooked )
The names and icons of all the brushes are displayed. One post to this problem suggested deleting all the brushes you don't use and making a custom list. However, whenever you make a new brush it is displayed at the bottom of the panel, so you can see your custom brushes there without deleting any of the default brushes in case you need to use those as well.
Sufferincats, I don't think any of that is related to this topic. The problem is trying to find out what brush name you're using after you've chosen a brush from the tool presets panel and then changed the brush size. Here is the problem again:
..as far as I can tell, there's no way to determine which one you just chose, except for you to have remembered it. But if you're jumping back and forth between several tool presets, it's easy to lose track. Sometimes you want to know which one you're using because you like it a lot, but if you re-sized it during your work, there's zero way of finding out which preset you're currently using (unless there's something I'm missing - hopefully somebody has a solution ) But if you're like me, you have hundreds if not thousands of tool presets so simply trying to remember which one you just selected isn't an option. There should be a fix where the tool preset remains highlighted, even if you re-size the brush or if you close and then re-open the Tool Presets panel. Photoshop is riddled with these little "oddities" all over the place; it's little bugs left over from many years past that they haven't updated.
Boo, yes you're right absolutely. My suggestion was just a workaround because I only use a few custom brushes at a time. Have you noticed that with the new update of CC a couple of weeks ago there are serious bugs in several programs? Two updates ago After Effects would not render audio with quicktimes which was a nightmare right when I had to deliver to a client. With the more recent update AE has an even stranger bug that causes Media Encoder to freeze and crash when you render directly from AE. And Flash which I still use for animation out of habit, has always had weird bugs which we just get used to and fight, but again with the recent update of CC it has become even worse. It makes me wonder what is going on at Adobe. I gave up reporting bugs because any software engineer who designs an animation pgm that constantly throws up warning panels which interrupt your work flow is spending way too much time in the break room. Like when you go to another part of your work and try to select something with the lasso tool and get a warning asking you if you want to unlock the current layer. It's maddening and not at all helpful because you obviously locked that layer when you last worked on it so you wouldn't select it. I know this is off the subject of Photoshop but germane to your comment about "oddities". While reading posts about brushes I came across one that suggested deleting the default ones so only the custom brushes remain and then renaming the bin. Only problem is, you can't select all of them at once. You would have to go through a hundred brushes one by one with those annoying alerts that ask what you want to do. Too much time in the break room and not enough time actually using the program. Back in the day when Macromedia owned Flash I got into a running dialog with their software engineers about a problem in which a fill would become locked on its own unless you jumped out of the frame and came back again which was very annoying. At first they talked down to me like I didn't know the program, and then I sent them some examples and told them in writing exactly how to reproduce the bug. It became obvious that they were the ones who didn't know the program. After Adobe bought Macromedia flash and dreamweaver improved and some of these quirks were fixed but with CC they seem to be overwhelmed. I would love to see some of your work. Can you send me a link? I have a new project based on a true story about a cat which I would love to get some feedback on. If you would like to see the concept animatic it's here: MeMe the Cat
Nice site!! Looks like you've studied film extensively, your storyboards are cool I like the cat story... checked out some of the links on your site. Somehow I ended up on IMDB- did you work on 1980s cartoons like Alvin and the Chipmunks? Or is that just another animator with the same name?
I agree about Photoshop.. there's a lot of strange nits and picks leftover from times gone by, one of them being the Tool Presets thing- how annoying. I look at other software like Corel Painter and they seem to be on their game when it comes to the interface. But Photoshop does things differently- I guess because it was primarily developed as a graphics editing program, not a painter's program. That's changing though. I can't use Painter, it seems a little clunky. I think Photoshop can pretty well do everything it does, just in a different roundabout way. I find that even the brushes can come pretty close to Painter's brushes with a little tweaking.
Thanks. Yes, worked on a lot of old Saturday morning cartoons and some features back in the day. Alvin and the Chipmunks was one for the first five seasons when it was produced in Korea. Just finished some music videos for American Epic so have more time for MeMe's Story which is kind of a labor of love. Had a lot of criticism on the first part which is very appreciated. The part in the shelter is probably too heavy. Most people wouldn't be able to get through it without clicking off as it is. So if you have any ideas let me know. The idea is to create sort of an allegorical tale to help people get over their own problems, if that's possible. The cat certainly has.
Chris Cox's explanation is technically correct: as soon as you change any tool option, you are working with a custom tool, not a preset. But what is important to the user, and what the user needs to remember, is the PURPOSE of the tool, which is encapsulated in its name.
Dave Hallows suggested clicking the Create New Tool Preset button. This pops up a dialog with the name of the current tool preset. This suggests writing an action that copies and pastes from this dialog to ... somewhere. Perhaps into an extension panel that contains a scrolling text box that allows pasting. Then whenever you select a brush tool preset, you simply hit a function key that runs the action.
I am a brand new user of brush tool presets and I ran into this problem on day 1. I'm only using the brush tool presets that come with Photoshop CC, specifically the Mixer Brush Tool Presets. When I use a Cloner brush (e.g., Cloner Flat Fan), the Sample All Layers option on the toolbar is unchecked. I may be missing something, but I don't understand how a Cloner brush can clone onto a new transparent layer unless it is sampling from another layer (or layers). So I check the Sample All Layers button. As soon as I do so, the tool preset is de-highlighted.
My idea was that PS should have something like a swatches palette... when switching colors, I can go to the swatches palette and easily click on a recently used color. If there was a similar thing for the tool (or brush) presets, then the most recent ones used would be logged on a list separate from the preset palette itself. Then I could just click on the one I used a few minutes earlier but no longer remember the name of.
This is just a work around, but I've found it's helpful to create a new layer, and give that layer the same name as your tool preset name, so you can look back later for reference. This definitely adds more work though if you switch brushes a lot in the same doc.
I have 2 solutions for it using scriptng (they are examples that can be modified) in replies 1 and 14 of this topic, but you may try also r-bin solution: Getting the name of the current brush preset / If you have idea that worked other way, let me know...
I don't know if you ever figured this out. I have the same issue but am now in 2022 version. I have figured out how to do it in 2022. Brush settings window. bottom right the small square with + in it to add brush. It pops up a window with the name of the current brush. LOL, sorry I'm about 9 years too late. Hope it can help you still.
When I select the mixer brush, and then choose a brush tip from the brush preset menu, the tool will change to the brush tool as soon as I select the new tip. This doesn't happen with every brush (for example, i can change to a standard photoshop brush), but not a Kyle brush like the one below. As soon as I select the new
As soon as I select the new tip, the mixer tool will change to the standard brush tip. This does not happen in CC 2017. I am able to use the same kyle brushes without issue. I suspect something is awry with the way brushes and tool presets are sort of the same thing now? So when i am picking a new brush tip, it has the tool info with it? Please help if i am doing something wrong.
Thank you for your reply... This may work when i am creating a brush, but it seems almost every brush I used to have was maybe created with the setting checked (or before it existed)? Either way, using almost all of my existing imported brushes no longer works with the mixing brush or smudge tool. there doesn't seem to be a way to edit them either.
Yes, that did work, thank you. This is a good work around, but i can't duplicate every brush... Also there is no way of knowing which brushes will work (i.e. which were created with the Include Tool Settings box checked) until you select them. This problem did not exist in cc 2017.
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