How doth the little icon maker improve her efficiency

[azurite]

Is it possible to take a batch of images and quickly and easily turn them into a single Photoshop ABR (brush set) file? If so, how? I don't care if it's a plug-in, an AppleScript, or involves some other piece of software (so long as it's free). Help!

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[svelterose.livejournal.com]

This is how I save my brushes into one set file on Photoshop 7.0.

On my screen, my brushes window (it's small) has the last current brush used image and also a down arrow next to it. Click it, then click "Preset Manager". Load the brushes you want, then highlight the ones you want in your set. There's an option to the right called "Save Set" and I think that's how you create the .abr file. I've saved a ton of my personalized brush sets that way.

If you're doing it straight from a batch of images, you need to create brushes of them first before completing the process above.

[azurite]

Thanks for that-- I ended up doing something similar to speed up the process.

I opened up all the images (small 100x100 pictures) and, for one of them, made an Action-- I recorded my process of going and "Edit/Define a Brush Preset."

Of course, then I had to go into my existing brush palette and delete all the other images, which took forever, because there's no way to select multiple brushes and delete them, and PS CS3 apparently doesn't highlight/select a new brush when you delete an old one.

When I got that done, I went into File/Automate/Batch, selected the folder with the images, and told it to use the action I just created, which consisted of only one step. So the finished brushes went right into the existing brush palette. I deleted the one brush that was the duplicate of the original (from when I'd recorded the Action), saved the Brush Set, and that's it!