Have you changed your battery?
does this happen in a new user?
do you use your bracket keys to change brush size?
Thanks for the post. I dug in a bit further. To recap: I’ve arranged the tool/brush presets just so. If I quit Photoshop, restart or shutdown, upon start, the presets have reverted to a different order. Always the same order, just not the order I left them in. Every single time. The battery is fine. I tested it. Time and date are fine, and all other PRAM details are OK. I keep a Test User, tried that, and I get the same problem. I don’t use the bracket keys. I Called Adobe TS and the agent assured me, after on-the-spot testing, that no version of CS in combo with Tiger or Leopard has EVER maintained a list of brush presets in a specific order. All I can say to that is, quote: "Horse puckey", unquote. IF that is the case, then A: What the heck is the Preset Manager for? B: what was happening here in my computer for the past ten years or so? and C: If the Preset Manager can manage to keep the brush SIZE presets arranged in the user-defined sequence ad nauseum, why is it impossible to keep the brush TOOL presets in a user-defined sequence? Can anybody help? I’m getting tired of poking the Preset Manager every day.
Birck,
I just tested my Preset Manager and brushes by moving them around and then relaunching Photoshop CS3 and the brushes stayed where I’d moved them. If I had the problem you describe I’d suspect the brushes preference file was corrupt. To test my theory I’d probably try setting up my brushes the way I wanted and save the set so I could reload them.
Then I’d close Photoshop, go to /Users/username/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CS3 Settings/Brushes.psp and drag that brushes preference file to the desktop. Upon relaunching Photoshop, I’d expect to see a default set of brushes. Once more I’d open the Preset Manager and Load my saved set of brushes, replacing the default set. Theoretically that would create a new Brushes preferences file and might well eliminate your problem.
OK, I just tried that. It didn’t work, in two different ways. For one, the default set of brushes didn’t load when I re-started PS after dumping the brush presets, rather, my de-organized presets loaded, in the bad order. Then, when I deleted those with the Presets Manager and loaded my organized set, they showed up ok, but after I quit and re-started PS, they had reverted to the usual de-organized hurrah’s nest.
Maybe it’s a terminology problem. I select the brush tool in the toolbox, then go up to the Options Bar-lefthand end-to the brush tool icon, dropdown menu, pick a brush style (hard, soft, airbrush, two different sizes, etc), then move over to the brush SIZE dropdown menu just to the right of the brush tool icon. I am referring to the left hand brush TOOL dropdown menu as the "brush tool preset" menu. Is that accurate? Or is there more or less to it? Can I store the Brush sizes menu too?
see if you can keep your brush positions in a new user.
