This also allows you to preview patterns (pat), custom shapes (csh), styles (asl), gradients (grd), contours (shc), documents (psd), and swatches (aco,ase,act,acb,ado) all within Windows Explorer. This allows you to view all brushes and collections in Windows Explorer just like you would view images.
It also features a quick install button that will automatically load the brushes into any version of Photoshop. abr brushes and organize then how you like.
Panorabrush - PS Plugin For Mac & PC (Photoshop CC 2014 & CC 2015)Īllows you to preview Photoshop's. So you can assume it will run on both Windows and Mac once it's released. It will be an actual plugin and it's for "CC". Out of all the available options, I am most looking forward to this one. They are currently in private beta but you can sign up to be selected for beta or if you want to be notified when Brush Gordon is for sale. In my honest opinion Brush Gordon and Panorabrush look to be really good options but one of the others may work for you as well. Check out the following links and you may find something helpful. And since the only way you can view a brush preset is through Photoshop, I need a better way of managing my brushes. On top of the hope to have a way to sort brushes by self determined categories, I also want to start sorting through my brushes one by one to start deleting old ones (10+ years, yes 10+ years of basic Photoshop experience and I still don't know this T_T Its sad).
but when I try to follow the instructions on the help page, it talks about how to create new Libraries, but all it's doing is creating new preset. And then Im under the impression that you can create different "Libraries" of brushes, which makes me think Folders or Catagories, to which you can add brush presets to. First, Im under the impression that a brush "Preset" means a collection of custom brushes. The problem Im running into is that when I go into photoshop, look at Brush presets and try to load or replace brush presets, ALL of my brushes within the "Brushes" folder appear, even those in the subfolders, to the point where the list goes out of the view-able screen. Currently I have X amount of brushes in "C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2015\Presets\Brushes"Īnd some are in subfolders within the "Brushes" folder. Meanwhile, the development team is working hard on the next major release, GIMP 3.0, which will be fully ported to GTK3.I desperately need help finding a better way to manage my brushes as my collection has gotten a bit out of control.
You should also be able to install this release from the stable software repositories of your favorite GNU/Linux distribution in the coming days. Don’t hesitate to check out the release announcement page for screenshots and more details about the new features and improvements added in this release.Īs usual, you can download GIMP 2.10.18 right now from the official website. Moreover, this release makes loading of PSD files imported from Adobe Photoshop much faster, especially for large files, and supports loading of CMYK(A) PSD files.Īmong other improvements, there’s better symmetry painting, the brush outline preview motion is now much smoother on the canvas, the Layers dialog for merging layers and attaching floating selections was consolidated, and the implementation that notifies users of new GIMP releases got smarter.Ī total of 28 bugs were addressed in this release, which also updates 15 language translations. GIMP 2.10.18 also adds a compact style for sliders by default for better user interaction, makes the ABR brushes load faster than in previous releases, and highlights the dockable areas when dragging a dialog. You’ll find configuration options on the Interface/Toolbox page of the Preferences dialog,” explained the devs. Or you can disable the grouping entirely. The changes will take effect immediately. “You can customize groups by creating new ones and dragging tools between them.
Without any further ado, the highlights of the GIMP 2.10.18 release include a new 3D Transform tool to let users rotate and pan items in 3D space (you can check it out in action below), a new high-contrast symbolic theme, a new “Composited Preview” option for most transformation tools, and the ability to group tools by default in the toolbox, which is enabled by default after you update to this version. Now, GIMP 2.10.18 is here, and we finally have details about the new features that were implemented during this cycle. GIMP 2.10.18 comes three months after version 2.10.14, which probably most of you out there are running on your GNU/Linux distributions, but the development team released version 2.10.16 a week ago without announcing anything official. The powerful GIMP open-source and free image editor and viewer software received a new major release, GIMP 2.10.18, which brings numerous new features and improvements.