Why don't my brushes show up?

divamumdivamum Registered Users Posts: 9,021 Major grins
edited October 8, 2009 in Finishing School
They're downloaded .abr files, and they're in the right directory. I can see them sittin' there in file manager, but when I go to "load brushes" via the drop down menu in the brushes palatte... nada. Nuttin' there, and they don't show up on the drop-down menu listing either.

Windows Vista+CS3. Anybody?

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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,962 moderator
    edited October 8, 2009
    divamum wrote:
    They're downloaded .abr files, and they're in the right directory. I can see them sittin' there in file manager, but when I go to "load brushes" via the drop down menu in the brushes palatte... nada. Nuttin' there, and they don't show up on the drop-down menu listing either.

    Windows Vista+CS3. Anybody?

    Tx!

    You probably already tried this, but if you just downloaded them, you need to restart CS3 before the program will see them, even though they are visible in Explorer.

    Edit: also make sure that the file is not compressed. Sometimes presets are distributed as zip files...if so, you should unzip them directly into the ..\presets\brushes folde.
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  • AAABluestockingAAABluestocking Registered Users Posts: 116 Major grins
    edited October 8, 2009
    Have you tried just typing in the exact name? you might get a weak error message but they'll be there in the bottom of the brushes pallet
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  • divamumdivamum Registered Users Posts: 9,021 Major grins
    edited October 8, 2009
    Richard wrote:
    You probably already tried this, but if you just downloaded them, you need to restart CS3 before the program will see them, even though they are visible in Explorer.

    Edit: also make sure that the file is not compressed. Sometimes presets are distributed as zip files...if so, you should unzip them directly into the ..\presets\brushes folde.

    That was it! No I hadn't tried it... because I didn't know that I needed to "reboot" the program to get them to display. Awesomeness! thumb.gif
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,962 moderator
    edited October 8, 2009
    divamum wrote:
    That was it! No I hadn't tried it... because I didn't know that I needed to "reboot" the program to get them to display. Awesomeness! thumb.gif

    Great. :whew BTW, the same applies to all the presets you import into CS--actions, filters, whatever.
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  • Chile ChefChile Chef Registered Users Posts: 473 Major grins
    edited October 8, 2009
    did you hit ok to append the brushes?

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