Save My Favorite Settings for a Tool?

If you’ve found a particular set of settings that you really like for a particular tool (for example, let’s say you like to use the Brush tool, with a custom brush you loaded or created, with a particular hardness setting, and a particular opacity), you can save all of that as a Tool preset. Then, that brush, with all those custom attributes, will always be just one click away. You do this by setting up the tool the way you want it first, then going up to the Options Bar, and clicking on the tool icon on the left. When the Preset Picker appears (Adobe put some default presets there, but you can delete them), click on the Create New Tool Preset icon (it’s right under the gear icon in the top right). You can now name your preset, and even choose to include your current Foreground color, if you like. Click OK and now when you want to get that custom tool, just go up to that Preset Picker, choose it from the list, and off you go!