Brusherator for Photoshop CC+, a panel with brushes! and more
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Hi everyone,
I've finished an extension for PS I've been working on for AGES
It's a panel for brush presets, tool presets and stuff.
Here's the teaser!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIleQLZ3sIA&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=SergeyKritskiy
The goal with this extension wasn't to make this beautiful panel more comfy
but rather try to take a slightly different approach, more similar to what, *cough*, more modern 2d painting packages do.
My problems with Brush Presets and Tool Presets windows were that with previews turned on the brush lists are huge and without the previews you only have brush names (well, for tool presets you don't even have the previews).
So I thought to separate previews and buttons. For tools I'm familiar with I can have tiny text buttons or tiny tip thumbnail buttons. For brushes I use less frequently I can have larger stroke and custom thumbnails.
Features:
- Several types of buttons: tiny text buttons, larger auto-generated and custom thumbnail buttons;
- Possibility to keep your Brush presets and Tool presets on the panel;
- Additional optional panel for larger previews;
- Brush size is inherited no matter what brush size is in the preset (and this can be overridden for particular presets);
- Alternatives: a different variant of the preset on the same button;
- Shelves for different tasks;
- Hotkeys to toggle Brusherator visibility and Alternatives.
Several more gifs:
Shelves:
Alternatives:
The extension is available on my Gumroad or Cubebrush
It's for CC and above only, CS6 and below aren't supported (sorry).
If you have any questions I'll answer them here or you can write me to kritskiy.sergey@gmail.com or https://twitter.com/ebanchiki
Sergey.
P.S. also, to celebrate this, Perspective Tools 2 is discounted by 35% for two weeks!
I've finished an extension for PS I've been working on for AGES
It's a panel for brush presets, tool presets and stuff.
Here's the teaser!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIleQLZ3sIA&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=SergeyKritskiyThe goal with this extension wasn't to make this beautiful panel more comfy
but rather try to take a slightly different approach, more similar to what, *cough*, more modern 2d painting packages do.
My problems with Brush Presets and Tool Presets windows were that with previews turned on the brush lists are huge and without the previews you only have brush names (well, for tool presets you don't even have the previews).
So I thought to separate previews and buttons. For tools I'm familiar with I can have tiny text buttons or tiny tip thumbnail buttons. For brushes I use less frequently I can have larger stroke and custom thumbnails.
Features:
- Several types of buttons: tiny text buttons, larger auto-generated and custom thumbnail buttons;
- Possibility to keep your Brush presets and Tool presets on the panel;
- Additional optional panel for larger previews;
- Brush size is inherited no matter what brush size is in the preset (and this can be overridden for particular presets);
- Alternatives: a different variant of the preset on the same button;
- Shelves for different tasks;
- Hotkeys to toggle Brusherator visibility and Alternatives.
Several more gifs:
Shelves:
Alternatives:
The extension is available on my Gumroad or Cubebrush
It's for CC and above only, CS6 and below aren't supported (sorry).
If you have any questions I'll answer them here or you can write me to kritskiy.sergey@gmail.com or https://twitter.com/ebanchiki
Sergey.
P.S. also, to celebrate this, Perspective Tools 2 is discounted by 35% for two weeks!
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Its been a while since I last bought something on Gumroad, but didnt they support Paypal? Not seeing an option for it atm, but was fairly I've used it there before...
I believe Paypal is available on Gumroad if you're logged in. And it's the same for Cubebrush.
It says the same thing if I switch to the text preset, but the text still displays after i hit ok. For either of the two thumbnails its just a broken image icon.
(edit: This is on cc 2015)
I've seen similiar tool WIP's in the Technical Art -thread and always wondered how the heck you decode the ABR format (it's an ugly, messy and BINARY file format - because Adobe is awesome and like things like that -_- ).
I was tempted to decode it myself but am kinda busy atm with other tech art stuff.
Good job on Brusherator!
I've seen similiar tool WIP's in the Technical Art -thread and always wondered how the heck you decode the ABR format (it's an ugly, messy and BINARY file format - because Adobe is awesome and like things like that -_- ).
I was tempted to decode it myself but am kinda busy atm with other tech art stuff.
Yep, Derrick Barth is doing a different brush manager. I didn't even bother trying to decode TPL/ABR, I'm not into these kinds of pleasures plus I'm not a proper programmer. Derrick however decoded them (I think)
• Actions may be placed on a panel as buttons
• Flyout menu (CC2014+) — striped small thing on the right of the panel
• You can select shelves from flyout menu
• Option to toggle brush size inheritance for all buttons (default: size is inherited)
• Option to toggle names visible on image buttons (default: off)
• Option to close a panel after button click (default: off)
• Moving/resizing buttons in Edit Mode won't trigger them
• Button size ignores Photoshop UI font size option
• "Name on the panel " field is available for all types of buttons (so you could type a name for image button)
• "Use preset size" checkbox if you want to override brush size inheritance for specific tool
• "Select Preset(s)" dialog is taller
• Name filter field in "Select Preset(s)" dialog is available on CC2015+ on OSX (may be slow!)
• Brush selection is faster on Windows
• You can open Brusherator data folder from flyout menu (for backups)
• Current shelf is visible
• Fixed Brushes lose sensitivity some WIndows users had
Actions:
Size inheritance on/off:
Show names on the panel:
Hide on selection + hotkey to get the panel back:
creating new buttons from current tool or defining brush/tool preset from image:
and finally moving several buttons at once:
yaaay
What do you mean exactly by «not make something a new brush from an existing brush»? The buttons on BT are 'links' to the tools you have in Tools Presets / Brush Presets / Actions. In 1.2 I'm also adding an ability to create new brushes from BT itself.
I think BrushBox is more like a advanced version of current RMB-menu: you can place brushes and tools into subfolders, it automatically shows all your tools and brushes, it updates the list of tools if you switch between abr/tpl files: it's an advanced brush and tools manager.
My goals wasn't to improve the Brush Presets window and not to manage presets, I wanted to make something you can find in 3d editors or in Adobe Configurator: custom palettes with the tools you want at specific moment for specific purposes: you can move them freely as you like, you can have some tools larger and some of them smaller, you can assign custom thumbnails to them, you can place Actions and Scripts along with tools and brushes, you can switch between tool selections (shelves).
Some people like Derrick's approach, some people like mine. Btw, in the update I'm hoping to release this week, I'm going to add several more features, polish it and get rid of some errors.
I'm sorry that there's no trial version to try it: the world of Photoshop extensions is full of unnecessary inconveniences, Adobe doesn't help to make it better at the moment
Brusherator has been updated: 1.3 few weeks back introduced a lot of cool new features and enhancements and here comes 1.3.2 with some fixes and improvements!
here's Michael Pavlovich using Brusherator:
Also, a new documentation website with more examples, gallery, use cases and stuff
Get it on my Gumroad or Cubebrush
Cheers,
Sergey
And a video, explaining new features
Get Brusherator on Gumroad or on Cubebrush
Auto-backup to which cloud? I mean if you use something like Dropbox you can simply redirect the preference folder of Brusherator to the folder you want in Dropbox