abrMate

abrMate allows you to open, organize, sort, import, and export brushes.  You can preview your Adobe Photoshop .abr files in thumbnail or full resolution, and this allows you to speed up Adobe Photoshop by clearing out stuff you don’t use.  You can also open any brush in any version of Adobe Photoshop. 

Features:

• All .abr brush files are in specific directories 

  abrMate displays your various brushes and converts them to open in any version of Adobe Photoshop

• Open and preview Adobe Photoshop .abr brush files 

• Each brush previewed in .abr files at full resolution or thumbnail 

• Save each brush as .png 

• Create a preview panel of .png images 

• Convert newer brushes so you can open any brush from any version of Adobe Photoshop 

• Ability to export brushes to the .png image so it can be used in other applications 

• All open brushes can be opened to a thumbnail preview 

• A quicker way to open .abr files 

• Allows for close inspection of brushes in a large preview area 

• It’s the only utility that exists that can perform these functions 

• It can be used as a complete alternative to using Adobe Photoshop 

• You don’t have to try to remember what brushes you have any more 

• A website has resources for patterns 

• A website has resources for textures 

• Speed up Adobe Photoshop by allowing you to see and clear out what you don’t use 

• Organize brushes 

• Sort brushes 

• Import brushes 

• Export brushes 

• It’s free 

• Developed by texturemate 

• Downloaded over 5,000 times 

• Ranked 30 in Graphic Design (11/30/2018) 

• Latest version 1.1 

• File size 1.10 MB 

• Compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows 10 

• Hosted on Photobucket 

• Used by commercial artists around the world 

You can’t find a utility as useful as this one, even if you pay for it.