Is there a better way to organize your brushes?

[Jack V.]

I've recently started working on my digital painting techniques and I just imported a number of brushes from a LARGE collection (over 350) I had purchased a while back.  The problem is that all 350+ are in the same ABR file so they all import into the same organizing folder and I'd like to organize them by the media type they are meant to simulate (Charcoal, Ink, Oil Impasto, etc).  Is there a way to select several brushes at once and move them into a different folder or am I stuck with moving them one at a time?

Thanks in advance for the feedback. Loving Affinity so far.

 

P.S.

On a related note, is there a way to set a brush's opacity to be the pressure sensitive factor rather than the size?

Edited May 17, 2019 by Jack V.
additional, related question

[Dan C]

Hi Jack V.,

Welcome to the forums

1 hour ago, Jack V. said:

Is there a way to select several brushes at once and move them into a different folder or am I stuck with moving them one at a time?

Unfortunately not, right-clicking on each brush and using the 'Move to Category' operation is the only way of doing this in Affinity currently.

1 hour ago, Jack V. said:

On a related note, is there a way to set a brush's opacity to be the pressure sensitive factor rather than the size?

There is! Please see the following post:

I hope this helps  

 

[Wosven]

Hi,

You can also add/use text images (or dots or 1 px brush… something you'll reconize easily) as delimiters in a brush category (too many categories can be a mess too)

[Jack V.]

Thanks for the input Dan C and Wosven, it was helpful.  The brushes I'm using were intended to be used as tool presets (with ALL of the tool adjustments included) rather than just rubber stamp brush shapes so they take some tweaking to get their intended effect.