Adobe Photoshop 7 Tutorials
Productivity / Preset Manager
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Photoshop gives you a lot of power to really customize the way the application works. And one of the big advantages of using Photoshop is the ability to create your own custom collection of presets. And you can see, I'm looking inside my Photoshop folder here, there is a folder called presets. And in this folder there are subfolders - one for brushes, so this would contain all my various collections or libraries of different brush shapes and styles. We also have a folder for different color books or swatch books. Custom color swatch libraries, as well as gradient collections, so I think you get the idea here. Well you manage these collections or libraries using the preset manager. You find that under edit menu in this operating system - Preset manager. The top of my preset manager dialogue box, we have a pull down menu for which type of libraries we want to manage and manipulate. So you can see that we have brushes libraries, swatch libraries. We can work with gradient libraries, styles, patterns, contours and even tool presets. I'm going to talk about the brushes library as the concept of how this works will be the same as applied to the different library types. But of course you access the different libraries in different areas, and of course you access the brush library when you click on the brush's palette. Well, what can we do here? We can of course create our own custom library and then edit it, or we can begin to edit libraries that we see right here. And notice that we also have a preset manager menu button. Press and hold on it and we have a couple of options here. We can choose how we want to see our library items, and generally a small thumbnail is pretty good, we can choose to reset the brushes so if we've change any of our brush options, reset brushes will load the default set that comes with Photoshop. If we've edited any brush such as selecting this particular brush and then hitting the delete key, now we've edited that collection, we could choose to replace the current library with our new edited version by choosing replace brushes. And also I can choose to add or replace this current library with any of these sets that I'm finding right here in this section of the pull down menu. So if I just choose dry media brushes, Photoshop asks me if I want to replace my current library or append the library and add these brushes. I'll just choose append and you can see now that my brush library is much longer indeed. So if we want, using the preset manager I could create my own custom library. And you could choose safe set and I'm going to call this 'AJH custom 1', and click save. Now that I have my new saved library, I could of course go and edit this at any time. So I might click on one of these brush thumbnails, hold down the shift key to add to my selection, and you can see that when one of these brushes is highlighted or one of these items is highlighted, it has a strong black square around this particular thumbnail. You could of course go and delete these items to go and edit my library. So in this way, you can really customize the way Photoshop works by editing any particular library that you want to use. And of course when you are working with these libraries, such as maybe I'm using the gradient tool, one of my options of course when I'm using something like the gradient editor, is to go and load a custom library. So I can click load and it will take me to all the preset in this case gradient libraries that I could of course load. So I'll just choose metal here and choose load, and again it's now loaded the metal preset gradients and added them to the current collection.
Tutorial Information
| 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 |
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