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Photoshop 7 has a great new addition, and that addition is the addition of allowing you to save settings for any particular tool in what's called a tool preset. This pop down palette is the presets palette, and you can see if you press on the palette icon, it shows me in this case a collection of four brush tool presets. Now these brush tool presets are a little bit different than simply the brush presets. Brush presets show me basic settings for brush shape and size. But the brush tool presets include not only the brush presets, but also other settings such as my color mode, opacity and flow. Now why is this important? This is important because of the nature or way Photoshop works. If I just choose this particular brush and make some changes to the way it works, such as choose a different blending mode and opacity, the next time I make changes these are not saved. If I go ahead and choose normal and back to 100% opacity, Photoshop just uses the last settings. If I want to save them so that I can use them over and over again quickly, all I need to do is make the changes that I want to save, such as choose a different type of blending mode and perhaps a different opacity for my brush. And now I can add them to my preset list. Click on the tool preset pop down palette icon, and it will popup the pop down palette, and I can choose from any one of this collection of, in this case four brush tool presets, or I can add my current settings as a new brush tool preset. So I'm going to click on the preset palette menu item here, and add new tool preset. And it will bring up the dialogue box asking me to name it. And I'll just call this one brush tool dissolve. And click ok, and now it's been added to my list of brush tool presets. Notice at the bottom of this palette, I have a check box which allows me to see only the current tool collection of presets. In this case brush tool presets. If I deselect that, it will show me all the various presets available to me. So I'm just going to go back and choose current tool only, and this way I can choose from any of these brush tool presets. So I click on transparent red spray paint, click off of that. You can see that it immediately of course chooses a different brush shape, but it also chooses in this case a different color as well, and a different blending mode as well as changing my flow. So it's a great way of adding favorite collection of settings to Photoshop that you can access over and over again. Under the window menu, there is actually a palette called tool presets. And you can see that this basically looks exactly the same as the pop down menu. And it has the same functionality as well. We can see all our presets by disabling current tool only. And of course, if you enable current tool only, it will show me only the presets for the tool that I am currently using.
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop 7 |
| Author: | Andrew J. Hathaway |
| SKU: | 33329 |
| ISBN: | 1889347272 |
| Release Date: | 2002-09-05 |
| Duration: | 11 hrs / 152 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |