What is a .ABR file?
ABR is a Photoshop brush-preset file. Created and opened by Adobe Photoshop.
- Did you know
- Custom, shareable brushes have been a Photoshop hallmark since the 1990s.
- An ABR can bundle not just brush shapes but also patterns and a descriptor block, each tagged with Photoshop’s 8BIM resource marker.
- The format comes in an older and a newer variant, and Adobe has never publicly documented the modern ABR structure.
- What Analyser reads
- Identify Adobe project files and read their metadata: Photoshop (PSD, PSB), Illustrator (AI), InDesign (INDD), After Effects (AEP, AEPX, AET) with composition / layer / effect and asset extraction, Premiere Pro and Elements (PRPROJ, PREL) with sequence and media counts, XD, Animate (FLA), and Lightroom.
- Depth of analysis
- .ABR is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .ABR file
- Drag a .ABR file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.