How Do You Store Your Brushes?

[Linda Lou]

I've collected quite a few brushes in the last few years. For those of you who use a lot of brushes do you keep them in your Brushes folder, or do you prefer to keep them on removable media and direct PSP to that location?

[hartpaul]

I keep any extra ones I download and install in :
C:\Users\Paul\Documents\Corel PaintShop Pro\2018\Brushes
But as well I keep a copy of those brushes elsewhere
eg C:\Users\Paul\Documents\MyPSPBrushes
Both placed in Documents which is normally backed up on external hard disc drives. So at least 3 backups.
I would not use them while on external media ( HDD, or USB drive ) as that is something you need to remember to plug in each time and as well it uses up a USB port and on a laptop I may have only 3 available.

[Linda Lou]

Thank you for sharing your method. I do similar but was wondering if having so many brushes in the Corel folder is slowing things down. My PSP 2018 has a tendency to freeze every so often when I'm painting. If I forget to save every few steps, I lose a lot.

[hartpaul]

Fairly easy for you to experiment - just remove all the brushes from the folder normally accessed and leave a few brushes there that you intend to use . Then operate your program for a while and see if there is any difference. If you still get the slowing down then it may indicate something else is causing the slow down.