Is it OK if I edit the brush sets installed with Elements?

[Goldfrappfan]

I've been wondering...

[Carbone]

I don't know... if you erase or otherwise change a brush, you might be stuck reinstalling if you need it back. Make a copy of the Presets folder for a backup, if you intend on changing the defaults brushes and other factory made settings. Experimenting is always fun. Having a way back home is even better

Ray

[Goldfrappfan]

Thank you.
All I did was change the Basic Brushes file.
The Default Brushes are OK. Aren't the Default Brushes the same as the Basic Brushes?

[Carbone]

I don't know what is this brush set, but Basic isn't in the list, nor is Default a brush set (a file).

Ray

[Goldfrappfan]

I have the Windows Version, that might explain why.

[Carbone]

Maybe, I have PSE4 for Mac.

Ray

[graficalicus]

they *should* be the same on both platforms.

You can edit the set all you want - then you can just save your edited set under a different name. Click the little triangle on the brushes palette to get to the menu - you shoud see something like Reset brushes (which restored the default set), clear brushes (which empties the palette), Load brushes (which adds a new set to the palette in addition to the one(s) already there), Replace (replaces the current set(s) with the new one you want to load) and several other commands. Choose Save and you'll be prompted to enter a name for your edited set -

You can delete individual brushes (if you want to make a completely custom set) by right-clicking the brush footprint in the palette and chosing delete - when the set is as you want it, save it with a new name and it'll be there whenever you want to reload it.

Once you delete individual brushes, they're not really gone until you save the set - then they're all-the-way gone.

[Goldfrappfan]

Um, now I have the same brushes displayed twice at the bottom of the list. When I try to select one of the brushes from the bottom, it says "Operation couldn't be completed because of a program error" or something similar. When I restart the program, it's normal.
P.S.: I mean all of my brushes appear twice.

[graficalicus]

sounds like you just loaded the same set twice -

when you restarted, it eliminated the duplicates - maybe? You can always go back and start from scratch with the Reload brushes command - if you didn't save your new set in the same folder with the same name as the original default set (which, BTW, is Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 3\Presets\Brushes\ .

[Goldfrappfan]

I edited the Basic Brush set that was installed by the program, by mistake.