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Organizing Your Digital Scrapbooking Brushes in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements

Scrap Girls University - Digital Scrapbooking Tutorial - Organizing Your Digital Scrapbooking Brushes in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements

Locate the drive where your Photoshop or Photoshop Elements software is installed. Mine is installed on the C Drive. Click on Local Disk (C):

 

Scrap Girls University - Digital Scrapbooking Tutorial - Organizing Your Digital Scrapbooking Brushes in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements

Choose Program Files.

 

Scrap Girls University - Digital Scrapbooking Tutorial - Organizing Your Digital Scrapbooking Brushes in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements

Chose Adobe.

 

Scrap Girls University - Digital Scrapbooking Tutorial - Organizing Your Digital Scrapbooking Brushes in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements

Choose the software in which you wish to organize your brush files. I am going to organize my Photoshop CS brush files.

 

Scrap Girls University - Digital Scrapbooking Tutorial - Organizing Your Digital Scrapbooking Brushes in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements

Choose Presets.

 

Scrap Girls University - Digital Scrapbooking Tutorial - Organizing Your Digital Scrapbooking Brushes in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements

Choose Brushes.

 

Scrap Girls University - Digital Scrapbooking Tutorial - Organizing Your Digital Scrapbooking Brushes in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements

I am now in my brush file folder. You will see that I have a lot of brush files installed.

 

Scrap Girls University - Digital Scrapbooking Tutorial - Organizing Your Digital Scrapbooking Brushes in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements

If I choose to just use this long list of brush files from within Photoshop, it would look like this.

This is what I have been doing. But I have to admit that it is getting kind of hard to use this way when digitally scrapbooking and I have a lot more brushes that I would like to install. So for the purpose of this tutorial, I'll organize them today!

 

Scrap Girls University - Digital Scrapbooking Tutorial - Organizing Your Digital Scrapbooking Brushes in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements

First, I'll create a set of folders that I want to file my digital scrapbooking brushes in. I'm creating my particular set of folders based on my experience of the types of brushes that our designers usually create.

 

Scrap Girls University - Digital Scrapbooking Tutorial - Organizing Your Digital Scrapbooking Brushes in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements

Next, I highlight the brushes that I want to file. I'll just drag them into the correct folder after that.

 

Scrap Girls University - Digital Scrapbooking Tutorial - Organizing Your Digital Scrapbooking Brushes in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements

If you are not sure what a brush set is about as you are filing, just go into your software and look at the brush set image or use it to stamp on a background.

You can rename a brush set if you have created something with a name that is confusing. If you have purchased a brush set, it is recommended that you NOT rename the file as the file names generally are set up to allow you to understand who created them and what the brush set is all about.

 

Scrap Girls University - Digital Scrapbooking Tutorial - Organizing Your Digital Scrapbooking Brushes in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements

In this instance, I created a neat border brush set one day and named it something ridiculous ("NewBrushesMay2005.abr"), which was the month I created it. No wonder I forgot about the brush!

 

Scrap Girls University - Digital Scrapbooking Tutorial - Organizing Your Digital Scrapbooking Brushes in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements

As you file, you will likely find new themes you need for your folders and may slightly rename your existing folders. Here is what I ended up with after I filed everything. See how neat and tidy it looks?

 

Scrap Girls University - Digital Scrapbooking Tutorial - Organizing Your Digital Scrapbooking Brushes in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements

To locate a brush file that you wish to use, go to your "Load Brush" area of your brush commands. This window pops up.

 

Scrap Girls University - Digital Scrapbooking Tutorial - Organizing Your Digital Scrapbooking Brushes in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements

Click into the folder that you wish to pick a brush from. Here, I am in my "Layer Your Own" brush folder. I going to select Mandy Steward's ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Striped Ribbons Brush Set. Select it and hit "Load." The brush set is now available for you to use.

When you want to install new brushes, just put your new ABR file into the correct folder. It's that simple. But remember, in order to get your new brush set to show up, you have to restart Photoshop.

 

Photoshop Elements

 

Scrap Girls University - Digital Scrapbooking Tutorial - Organizing Your Digital Scrapbooking Brushes in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements

Everything works exactly the same way for you, except your Presets list looks like this.

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