Even the other brushes that come preinstalled in Photoshop don't allow you to adjust hardness Regarding the hardness: typically, only the standard round brushes allow you to adjust the hardness. Just go to Edit > Presets > Preset Manager, and hit the 'Load' button.įor some tips and alternative methods of managing your Photoshop Presets, check out this great article: Installing And Managing Brushes And Other Presets Using this, you can select multiple brush files and load them in at once.

If you want to get all of your brushes back into your Brushes panel quickly, try using the Preset manager within Photoshop.

If the brushes you have installed are showing up in the Brush settings flyout menu (shown below) but not in the Brushes panel, you probably accidentally replaced your brushes instead of appending, or your preferences were reset. When you say 'gone', do you mean gone from the Brushes panel, or gone from your Presets folder altogether? When you download and install custom brushes, make sure that make their way into the Photoshop Brushes preset folder, shown below.

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