Finally! An .abr / brushes file viewing utility for Mac OS X!!!

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<img alt="Picture hosted by Pixentral" src="http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/16MaNQbwWoKYWxvx6jYd7zX0Nzxp_thumb.png" border="0" align="left" hspace="6" />For the longest time, Windows users have been able to grab and use the free and open source "ABRviewer" utility to preview their brush sets without loading them into Photoshop. It was always so frustrating that it wasn't available for Mac users.
 
 Well, pine no more, my fellow Maccers.
 
 ABRviewer is finally available for us, too.
 
 WHOO HOO!!!
 
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 Direct link to the author's site: http://www.easyelements.com/abrview.html
 
 The UI is kind of sucky in part because it takes a strange advantage of the space available in the right-side preview window, and parts of the way it works are kind of unconventional, but at least it works. Also, it doesn't keep a list of previously viewed abr sets in memory, so every time you fire it up you have to navigate to the folder of brushes you want to view.

Welles....
Maybe the ABR viewer utility for Windows keeps the UI populated with a list (and the PNG proxy images) of brush sets the user has viewed previously, but the Mac .jar version doesn't. At least it doesn't for me.
I sent a note to the software's author with a link to this thread, along with my misgivings about the way it works. Near as I can tell, he's a young guy, going to University, and this is just a little hobby project for him that he won't be devoting a lot of extra time to. I'd love to open a dialogue with him about how it could be improved, but I really don't expect he'll show up here to do that.
Photoshop's Preset manager is good, but still, you have have PS running and you have to load the ABR files just to preview the set. That's a little cumbersome IMO. That's why the ABR viewer is a cool utility...it just needs a few tweaks.

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