…or search: Photoshop Brush Tips on The Graphic Mac.Brushes are one of the best and most used Photoshop tools that designers love to use to enrich their designs. If you are a brush fanatic, take a moment to peruse the large archive of brush related tips at The Graphic Mac:

Source: This tip was initially inspired by a question during the seventh class in our 10-Week Photoshop Course. Mac Users: Make sure to download the non-Windows (.jar) version at the bottom of the page.

You may have to manually add the Brushes folder from your Photoshop Presets directory. Just click on the brush set you want to view and they’re displayed in the window. ABRView: Preview Brushes in Windows or MacĪBRViewer is a tiny Java application that when launched, offers a list of all your brushes already loaded into Photoshop. Just drop the BrushView Quick Look plug-in into your ~/Library/QuickLook or /Library/QuickLook folder and you’re good to go. If you are running the latest version of Mac OS X, this is my favorite tool. Brush View: Quick Look Preview in OS X Leopard.īrushView (shown at the start of this article) is an Apple Quick Look plugin that makes viewing your brushes as easy has selecting the brush file in the Finder and hitting the Space Bar. Both tools are quicker and easier than loading all your brushes into Photoshop in order to see what they look like. Our friend, James Dempsey at The Graphic Mac wrote up two handy tools that make previewing your custom brushes a snap. If you download a lot of custom Photoshop brushes, you have probably found yourself looking for an easy way to preview what those brushes look like before loading them into Photoshop and trying them out.

Photoshop brush sets