Illustrator Workflow: “Persistent” Brush Palettes

March 25, 2008 | Posted in Illustrator |

Workflow is always important for productivity. Avoiding as many clicks as possible is an everyday battle, and, with this little Illy tip, I hope to help you avoid yet another 3 clicks. For some reason, the folks at Adobe decided that Illustrator shouldn’t have a ‘Preset Manager’ like Photoshop, so here we are working around it. I’d like to share with you one way I get around a lack-of-a-preset-manager in Illustrator when it comes to brushes.

Illustrator Workflow:

It’s pretty simple. If you ever grow tired of loading a set of Illustrator brushes that you use regularly, click on the palette options in the upper right corner and select “Persistent,”and that brush set will automatically load the next time you launch Illustrator.

Illustrator Workflow:

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17 Responses to “Illustrator Workflow: “Persistent” Brush Palettes”

  1. erica Said... March 25th, 2008 at 5:46 pm

    Thanks! I have just started learning Illustrator after 11+ years on Photoshop. This little tidbit will save me so much time!

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  3. Askhari Said... March 26th, 2008 at 2:25 am

    again, one of the small things that can help so much :D
    thx alot, I think I’d never noticed myself

  4. Esben Thomsen Said... March 26th, 2008 at 3:27 am

    I use it for my large swatch palettes, which makes it easier to use gradient palette.

  5. MediaMisfit Said... March 26th, 2008 at 9:00 am

    Essential. This is something I never really think about until I go to use my custom brushes. SWEET TIP!

  6. Phil G Said... March 26th, 2008 at 10:42 am

    As usual, you guys are right on!!

    As of CS3, there is one other way of doing this. If you have certain brushes, swatches, styles, and other content that you find yourself using regularly, you might want to use an AI file with that content as your starting point.

    Mordy covers the use of these Doc Profiles in 2 quite thorough blog posts -

    http://rwillustrator.blogspot.com/2007/09/new-document-profiles-and-metadata.html
    http://rwillustrator.blogspot.com/2007/09/ask-mordy-new-document-profiles.html

  7. Mike Wilson Said... March 26th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

    Awesome… I always wondered about that!

  8. DBdesignCo Said... March 28th, 2008 at 7:22 am

    Cool tip! Thanks Bitt

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  10. shabith ishan Said... March 29th, 2008 at 10:14 pm

    thanks bitt. your tips are really helpful for me. thanks again. :)

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  14. LJ Said... April 4th, 2008 at 7:34 am

    This would be helpful, but it’s not working in my illustrator for some reason. When I follow these steps and re-open illustrator, the same old default brushes and swatches are there and in the list beside the ones I used “persistent” on it just has a check mark…am I missing something?

  15. L.T Said... April 20th, 2008 at 4:55 am

    Thank you to share this to have the help to me

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