Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To, and today I'm going to show you how to load brushes
in Adobe Illustrator. And I'm also going to go over where they're stored
on your machine. We'll go over both Mac or Windows PC. All right, let's get started.
Ok, so the reason you would want to know this, let's say you have some brushes. And if you're
not seeing your Brushes panel up, you can just go to Window. And then Brushes right here. Let's say
you created some brushes, or you have some saved somewhere. Maybe they're on your desktop, and you
want to load them into Illustrator. So what we'll do is come over here to these three little lines,
and then choose Open Brush Library. And we'll choose >Other Library, and then we'll navigate
to our Brushes. And here are the brushes that we want to use. And then we can go ahead and
use these brushes and everything will be fine. We finish the project and we close Illustrator.
Now, unfortunately, the next time you open Illustrator, you'll have to load these brushes
again. And you'll have to do that every time you close and open Illustrator. But if you want them
to open every single time you open Illustrator, you can put your brushes that you saved into a
certain place on your computer. So if you put your brushes into where your brushes are stored
by Illustrator, Illustrator is going to open preloaded with the brushes in User Defined and
you won't have to load them anymore. So first, I'll show you how to do this on a Mac. I'm going
to hit CMD N for a new window. This is a finder window, and then I'm going to hit SHIFT CMD H.
And what that does, it brings you to your Users folder, and then your little home folder. And
inside that is your Library folder. Now you might not see the Library folder though. So if
you don't see it, right click and choose Show View Options. And you can just toggle it on
right down here. And I'm going to go ahead and get out of that. But anyway, click on your Library,
and then we'll go to Application Support, Adobe, Adobe Illustrator. You want to choose whichever
one you're currently using. I'm going to choose 25. And then en_US and then Brushes. And here
is where you can drop your new brushes. Ok, so after you restart Illustrator, they should
come up in your User Defined. So I've restarted here. I've got my Brushes open, and I'll click on
the flyout. And then come down here to Open Brush Library and then go to User Defined. And here are
the brushes that we just loaded into the file hierarchy. Now on PC it's going to be a little
bit different. You're going to your C drive. And then we'll go to Users which is right down here,
Administrator and then App Data. Now yours might not have the Administrator. You can just go to
App Data from the Users folder. And then we'll choose Roaming. After that it's Adobe. And then
you'll choose your current version or the one you're using now of Illustrator. My PC has CS6,
and that is the most recent, which is kind of crazy. I haven't used the laptop really
for anything really for years. I'm going to choose x86 and then Brushes. And then you can
just drag the brushes file in here. Next, you can restart Adobe Illustrator. And you'll be able to
see those in User Defined. Now if that doesn't work, go back out. And instead of being in x86,
you'll want to choose the other one, which is x64. Let's go ahead and do that. And you can put them
in here and try that. But you definitely won't see them until you restart Illustrator and they're
going to be in User Defined. All right, if you liked this video and you want to see more videos
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