Save a brush

I created a brush in PS CC 2014. Back in PS CS6 the brushes I created were stored in a directory which I often copied to another drive in my system along with a cd for safe keeping.
However, I can not find anywhere on my pc that PS CC 2014 has saved a brush I recently created. it just isn't there.
The default brushes are at : c:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2014\Presets\Brushes
And brushes I get from the web and load into PS CC are at:
And this:C:\Users\Steven\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2014\Presets\Brushes
But can anyone tell me where PS CC 2014 stores brushes I make. It's like they don't exist anywhere. Also for some reason the sync feature in PS CC 2014 does not include any brush I have except the defaults and this is why I want to know where it hides them. TIA

I assume that over at
Recently active topics in Photoshop Family about Photoshop
there have been Feature Requests concerning the Brush Presets Panel … a lot of people seem to be less than satisfied with the current state.
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What version of cs6 and operating system are you using?
On windows 8 using cs6 13.01 i'm able to save textures with both brush presets and tool presets.
Perhaps there is a certain kind of brush or setting that is preventing photoshop from saving the texture setting for the brush.
What kind of brush are you using: i.e regular, bristle, pencil etc
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Merge the layers, make sure you have a black shape on a white background - then define as a brush.

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bump, I realize my post is long, but the main issue is that on subsequent calls to this method, the only line that isn't working is the "Save" method call. For some reason, it seems that Acrobat is maintaining a lock on the file, preventing a save. So that when I call "Save", the result value is "false" rather than "true", and the save never occurs.
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We appreciate your continued correspondence regarding your EOS 5D Mark III, EOS 7D, and Speedlite 580EX II.
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You could use the preset manager to make a custom
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http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-74b0a.h tml
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On record, I have over 1,000 brushes, over 1,000 fonts, and I'm making other resources on the fly. I have an issue here: I can't find anything!!
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Is it that hard to ask Adobe to put in some font organization, tags for brushes and a search engine for them? Sometimes it's a pain trying to find the right font, but say, I think, "Hmm.. I want a font that is remotely Western, probably serif" there is no way in Adobe Photoshop to get through all of those fonts in a timely manner which means I'm spending about 2 hours shuffling through the fonts trying to find the right one. Sure there is a panel where you can select your favorite ones, but that's not by category... there is no sane way to find the font just for you.
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not sure if anybody mentioned this.
tumasoft.com has a product for viewing and organizing your brushes patterns etc. 25 bucks.
This should be native to Photoshop rather than from an external program. It's in many other programs,so I don't understand why Photoshop doesn't have a system native to it.
To be blunt: If that has happened more than once to you and you still don’t save useful, newly created brushes regularly you should, in my opinion, improve your workflow.
Saving a brush into a set should be doable in something like 15 seconds, less if you use Keyboard Shortcuts.
Even less than that if one automates the task with a Script (which could then be invoked either via a Keyboard Shortcut or Configurator Panel).
Let me know if you want to give it a try.
You misunderstand me. I save the brush into the brush panel, and I may have the brush in up and working, but to save the brush permanently, you have one of these options:
1. Quit Photoshop between each brush made. The Save Brush Preset was NOT a permanent solution. It should be automatically saved to a file. Such as "all". Illustrator has a similar feature, though this really needs to be streamlined for Illustrator as well.
2. Save as a brush pack. However, if you have a bunch of brushes planned, this becomes a pain to do. This means out of say the 100 brush packs you have to find it every single time and add it and even if Photoshop crashes, the brushes you saved won't show up in the brush menu, because Photoshop doesn't remember any of the brushes you made until you quit Photoshop. This means then, if you're in the middle of making a brush and Photoshop crashes, you have to bring up said brush pack.
Do you really make brushes? 'cause I do. I make lots of brushes and it annoys me to no end that when I save the brush to the brush panel it's not a permanent save, but temporary. It should be permanent and I shouldn't have to shut down Photoshop to get it to save automatically to the Photoshop Brush palette.
I spend a lot of time refining my brushes by testing them, making them, and then testing them again. When I get the brush perfect, and find that something big has happened, I expect the brushes I saved to the brush palate should have saved permanently. But test it... You can force quit Photoshop, after saving to a brush to the brush palate and find that it's not at the end of the brush palate anymore. This is wacky and should be fixed. I view it as an internal bug rather than a "feature" i.e. something they didn't think about when they gave users the ability to create their own brushes. This is very programable as other programs can do it and as you pointed out it, it is minor. Especially with the advent of workable backup files, it has become ten times easier. Since Photoshop remembers on shut down, it may be even more minor--just shifting some code from the shut down process to the "save to Brush palate" process. I wouldn't mind say 5-10 seconds more of waiting while it saves if the save ends up in a permanent save.
But as for organizing Brush Presets and Brush-name search capabilities Photoshop could indeed do with some improvements. (I still work with CS4, so I don’t know what changes exactly CS5 brought in that respect.)
Fonts on the other hand … I suspect the risks connected with implementing any expanded font-capabilities in Photoshop may be significant.
Font organizers already exist. And programs have implemented them with success without hindering the work flow. I'm proposing this in addition to the "favorites" and the type-in pull down menu, not instead of it. As there are working examples, I doubt it will be that difficult to mock up. This isn't like a new fangled idea--so making it isn't as difficult. It should have been in In Design a long, long time ago... All the Adobe Products need one. I wouldn't even mind if it was an external program that worked with the suite. (Similar to Font Book for Mac with the Coco Products)

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1) Is this behavior reproducible by others and/or is it a known issue? It's been reproduced consistently in-house.
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