Photoshop :: Installing/using New Brushes, Returning To Default
May 3, 2005
find new brushes? Isn't it great when you actually get them installed? Isn't it also great when you are worried about how to get back to default brushes when you're done using the new ones? lol Yeah, I'm still new to the Photoshop thing, and still have a lot to figure out. So, can anyone tell me how to use the new brushes I've downloaded, and also how to get back to the default brushes?
I'm trying to install some new brushes in Photoshop CS6. Previously on CS5, I just downloaded the zip, opened the file and clicked install. Now it shows up as an "unknown" file (windows doesn't recognize it) and I can't open it. If I try to load it directly into the brush presets folder I get this error Cannot create arrow brush.abr Access is denied.
I've downloaded a brush, that I'd like to use in Photoshop 10, and I read that you're supposed to extract the file into
Program Files > Adobe > Photoshop (whatever version you are using) > Presets > Brushes
Now, this is how far I can get:
Program Files > Adobe CS3 > Photoshop > Adobe CS3
I don't have anything called "Presets", but I have payloads, redist and resources. I can't find anything similar to "brushes" either, am I in the right place?
how do you get your default brushes back? I just got sets of new ones, which I was adding them at the time, and I accidently replaced my old ones. I tried uploading all the files that I could, but I never got those Circle brushes back. I may have missed one, I was able to get the Square brushes, but not the ones that PS(7 in this case) came with. Are these in the same brushes folder? Do I need to download them to get it back?
I've recently installed CS4 on my new Vista machine. After setting up my Wacom tablet, installing all the appropriate software I find Photoshop is not responding to me pen sensitivity as it has on my previous machine (Mac with CS1). Specifically I'm thinking the default brushes are incorrect, specifically I use the hard brush that by default should go from small - large- small. Thinking I was missing a setting I compared both side by side and sure enough my settings for default brushes are the same on both machines but I'm not getting the dynamic brush that I had on my Mac. Below is a screen shot I found online of what i'd like to have in my setup. in yellow is where I'd like to get to but at the bottom of the image is where I'm at currently. Any help would be appreciated. I just know the solution is going to be so simple that I'll bang my head on the desk when I get it.
I'm using CS4 and am searching for a particular brush - Oil Medium Wet Flow. This brush is already loaded in my pallette but I cannot find out which Brush set it belongs to. Someone asked where the brush is located but am unable to answer, and have spent quite a bit of time looking for it. I have downloaded many brushes so I have a huge list, but I know that it is a default brush. I wondered if there is a list of the default brushes available as I've trawled the internet to find one and so far haven't been able to. What I'm looking for is something that gives me each default brush set and the sub-category of individual brushes within. For example, Assorted Brushes, then all the brushes within that group. It would be really nice to have a list of these I can refer to without having to select the brush set first. Also, is there any way of knowing where brushes are from that are loaded in your pallette?
Twice now, upon a restart of my computer, Photoshop has reset to factory settings, and deleted all my custom brushes I've made since a particular point in time. I've had to remake some brushes for my digital art course twice, and now I'll have to do it a third time. This is EXTREMELY DISTRESSING...
 This started happening only recently. I can only guess perhaps an update to Windows or something has really jerked up my Photoshop, not sure.Â
Basically, there you can see a selection of default brushes, and how some of them appear like just small circles, rather than a smooth, hard round default brush like they should. The second one is the one highlighted in the window. Â When I use other brushes with my Wacom Bamboo they too look just a bit less effective than they used to. I don't want to reinstall
so i thought i was smart and created some new brushes. added them no problem (or so i thought) but to my dismay i cannot find my default brushes; the only available ones are those i created. did my saving the new brushes somehow delete the core collection?
I rarely use a green pepper in my work! I found the folder to add custom brushes but where is the folder that contains the default brushes. I am running the latest version of GIMP with Windows 7.
Im sick of writing the value of brushes i want to use like example: brush size 10 or brush size 20 or brush size 5 or less..
Whenever i touch to adjust brush size by mouse it always is like this: brush size 334 or brush size 554.. Why it is so easy to pick 400size brush and almost imposible to pick 40 size brush?
Brush are? its like 500px wide.. since when small brushes are obsolete?? i never use bigger brush than 50! and most of the time i use brushes that are less than 10(value)
So its pretty important for me(i hope not only for me) to easily pick small brush sizes..
I want to delete the default brushes in Gimp, like the famous green pepper and others that I find not useful to me. I know how to do this but is there's a reason why the pre-installed brushes cannot be deleted with the brush editor?
I had PSCS6 and LR5 working fine together, but after buying and installing Adobe Premiere Elements, the Edit in option from LR5 doesn't work like before anymore : after the PSCS6 edit is finished, the PS menu saying "Save and return to LR" is missing. I get only the Save and return to Bridge option.  I had hoped that installing both the Camera raw 8.2 and LR5.2 updates would have corrected the problem, but it didn't. What can I do to get the correct menu option back ? Is there anything in the preferences or in the ini file which I could change (working in Windows 7 64bits) ?  I never use Bridge and rarely use Premiere Elemnts and I find this behaviour very noyous. Although the edited tiff picture is correctly saved and seems appears in LR. Still getting back automatically to LR would be more aggreable, since both programs are supposed to work together and that was the main reason why I updated from CS5 to CS6.  Is there any option that I could tweak to get back to the old and more correct behaviour ?
I always close/save any image(s) that I'm working on however when I later reopen PS, the last image(s) I was working automatically open in PS again.  when I quit PS, it often says "Photoshop Quit Unexpectedly". This happens whether I close by right clicking on the PS icon on the dock and selecting quit or if I select Photoshop from the top menu and choose "quit photoshop" from the drop down.Using an iMac w/OSX 10.7.3 and PS CS4 11.0.2
I'm using copy paste of the example code from here: URL....
but I seem to be doing something wrong. My objective is to batch process a bunch of files using a filter i found for underwater images. I've tried both modifying the script I got and calling it using another function but I always get the same error:
MacBook-Pro:testImages twonius$ gimp -i -b '(batch-Scuba-mask "*.jpg")' -b '(gimp-quit 0)'This is a development version of GIMP. Debug messages may appear here.
The folder i'm in does contain .jpg images, and I've changed the filenames to eliminate spaces. script-fu-diving is working fine when I execute from gimp. Considering I've only made a couple of modifications from the example script this must be something pretty simple.
I want to create an i part which derives its length and width from pairs of snapped points in the assembly. These can be any two points not necessarily existing properties of any part.
My new part would then calculate its actual dims from these measurements. Can this be done in ilogic and how?
I just had to replace my desktop computer, reinstalled AutoCad, set it up using a saved profile, everything was working fine until this morning when I came in and most of my buttons on the toolbars return "Unknown Command". Now even when I type in the command on the command line it doesn't recognize the commands. ie _layfrz Unknown command "LAYFRZ) I've gone in and "repaired" the program, shut down the computer for a full restart, to no avail.
I use the "view" tab to create a half section view of an assembly. This works fine, but if I try to measure anything, move or select a component, or export image to a .jpg then it automatically returns back to "end section view" mode. Â
Without the ability to operate in a section view the it is impossible to constrain components that are placed deep inside of other components. This make this view function useless except for just looking at it on the screen. This worked in 2012 and will not in 2013. How do I correct this?
I have a layer that contains two clipping groups (groups with a clip mask and other art). When I call layer.groupItems it returns an empty array. When I call layer.layers it returns the two clipping groups. I need to know if these layers are clipping groups, but if they are coming back as layers how can I figure that out?
I´m having this problem:  I created and array to receive linked filed (let´s say var pItem = app.activeDocument.placedItems;)  After it, I used a loop to know the File each link is associated. So:  for (var g=0; g<pItem.length;g++){   var src = pItem.file >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The problem is here. If we have a missing link in the document, the script will stop with the message.      ... continue procedure    };   Of Course, I could try using an "try" statement...but..Just to know: Is there any way to evaluate the status of a placedItem (to know if it´s missing or not)?? In the user manual I did not find any property that checks for this. We have properties to check for bounds, matrix, notes, tags, if it´s locked, visible...but not for checking the consistency of a placedItem, right?
I am interested in grouping and sorting brushes according to size, shape, whatever.
Right now when I add a brush library, they just stack on top of one another.
For example let's say I have a round brush with a 10 diameter, then next to it a round brush with a 20 diameter. If I make a 15, it goes to the bottom of the list, and I have to scroll all around. How can I group them?
I suspect I would have to make my own brush library with my brushes how I want them, then save that and load it?
Why do the two User Parameters in the picture return different Nominal Values? Apron_Length equation is 36" so why does "Slats" Nominal Value come out as 26?Â
I've got a script for processing a bunch of files which starts by bringing up ufraw. I would like to have ufraw save the list of modifications made before returning to gimp. (.ufraw file)
However, when gimp starts ufraw, it passes some option to ufraw whichcauses ufraw to not display the save tab which allows setting what to save.
Is there a way to tell gimp to bring up ufraw differently, or is the problem in ufraw?
After upgrading to LR 4.4 the publish service to Facebook semms to not work anymore. Â I'm publishing from the new LR 4.4 to Facebook. I create a new Collection in LR 4.4, enters a Album name and presses the Create button. I see that the Album is created Ok on my Facebook account Then I add some pictures, and executes 'Publish now' After a minute, I gets the message the the 'Upload failed and no returning string was received from Facebook'.
When I edit a photo in Photoshop from Lightroom 4 and save it back to Lightroom, the photo ends up somewhere else in the folder than it's original location. This is a hassle as my folders can have hundreds of photos. Is there a setting that will place the file back to where it came from?
I have gone through the process of hitting alt/option when in develop to reset default settings in develop to no avail as the images keep being altered whether you are simply viewing in All photos in library module or a single image in develop .