: Saving a single brush to an existing library Is there a way to save one brush at a time to a library in Illustrator CS5? So far as I've figured out so far, you can clear all-but-one of

@Steve758

save the brush you want to have in one ai file. all those brushes you can save as a brush famaliy or overwirte existing brush famalies.
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i draw just one line and dublicate it. give every brush style i had to it so i can also just pick brushes by copy and place to different ai documents without opening brushes.
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illustrator has many unsolved problems in the brush panel. also that you cant just apply brush settings to another brush grafic...

shame on adobe

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@Caterina889

Not specifically.. but here's a work-around.


Draw a path.
Apply a brush.
Copy
New Document
Run action "Delete Unused Panel Items" (This is part of the default actions set)
Run action "Delete Unused Panel Items" (Yes run it twice)
Paste
Save As...


You'll have only your pasted brush in the saved file.

You can speed this up by assigning an F key to the action. Simply double click the "Delete Unused Panel Items" And pick an F key. Then the procedure becomes - Copy - new File - F Key - F Key - Paste - Save

Or simply leave the new file open and toggle between windows.


Copy
Window toggle
F Key (only need it once now)
Paste
Save
Window toggle
Apply Brush
Repeat

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