Managing Photoshop brushes?
 

is there any way of seeing the brushes in a brush set without having to load the set into Photoshop? i have tons of brush sets but it's impossible to remember what's in them and a real time waster loading them just looking to see if one might be good for the job at hand.

As far as I know, there isn't, unless the guy(s) creating them don't have a preview set done in AI or similar program.

not the best solution, but the first thing i do when i download a new set is re-name it something logical, instead of "Don's crazy shapes" or whatever their stupid (and usually non descrip) default names are.

I have a similar problem with my fonts so I made a giant screen cap with samples of them all so I can scan real quick for what I want.

renaming them is a good idea

i have done screencaps of all the brushes but it's still a pain going to the folder i put them in and browsing them - Adobe should have a built in Brush Viewer/Browser with large thumbnails of each brush

Google is your friend. http://abrviewer.sourceforge.net/