Using these files you can load the brushes individually and save them to a set. Many brush sets come with a set of ‘png’ picture files which contain grayscale images of the brushes in the set individually.

The Workaround Assuming you have a brush set that is incompatible with your version of Photoshop, the ‘abr’ file will not load. Some good guidelines are that in general, brushes made in Photoshop 7, CS, and CS2, will work in Photoshop Elements 3 and onwards. The line between the Elements series and the main Photoshop series is a little fuzzier.įrom experience, it’s usually a case of trial and error to find out whether brushes made in a certain version from one series will work in another version from the other series. In any case, that is the cause of this error message.īrushes made in Photoshop can only be used in versions equal to or higher than the one they were created in.įor example brushes created using Photoshop Elements 3 can be used both in Photoshop Elements 3 and 4, but not 2 or 1. You might be familiar with the following error message:īrushes Incompatible Message “Could not load the brushes because the file is not compatible with this version of Photoshop.” When doing the research for this page, I looked into why Photoshop brushes aren’t backwards compatible.Īdobe have given us a wonderful product in Photoshop, but some of their decisions I still can’t fathom.

Uploading brushes to photoshop