Adobe Photoshop CS6 Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks by Lynette Kent

LOAD OPTIONAL BRUSH SETS for better painting
Brushes are essential for working with Photoshop.
When you customize a brush and create a new preset,
you can use that brush with not only the Brush tool but
also a number of Photoshop tools, such as the History
brush, the Eraser tool, the Pencil tool, and other tools.
Adding brushes gives you more options for editing
photographs and many more variations for painting
with Photoshop. You can view the brushes in the Brush
picker and change the default view from small
thumbnail to any of the other view options listed.
When you first install and open Photoshop, only the
default brushes appear in the Brush picker. The
optional brushes are stored in sets in the Presets
folder. You can load any set and have the additional
brushes replace the default brushes or be appended
to the existing brush set using the Preset manager.
Once loaded the additional brushes appear in the
Brush picker.
You should only add the brushes you need because
loading more brushes requires more resources, or
memory. At any time, you can append different brush
sets to see your options, save different sets, and
delete the ones you do not need.
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1 Click the Brush tool.
2 Click the Brush Preset drop-down
menu.
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A The Brush picker appears,
displaying small thumbnails of
the brush tips.
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3 Click the gear menu button ( )
on the Brush picker.
The Brushes menu appears.
4 Click Small List or Large List in
the menu to see the names of the
brushes as well as the tip.
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