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Photoshop CS3 is very customizable you're able to create your own patterns and your own swatches and all kinds of cool things, but you might not know where they live. They live in a place called the preset manager. The preset manager is a dialog box which you can access to look at, to change the name of, to save and load all the presets. So I'm gonna go and show you where that's located. It's under the edit menu and its right here the preset manager so let me go ahead and scroll down and show you. This dialog box opens up and it has all the presets. The presets in here are the ones that come with Photoshop CS3 by default as well as all the things that you eventually add into it and unknowingly by the way. So let me just give you an example, in one lesson I'm gonna show you how to create your own custom pattern and I have one here and I'm gonna double click and show that this is the VTC logo. So this is a pattern I created and I even named it. With the preset manager I can double click as you see here to look at a preset, I can rename it if I want to and I can also uh save this set. I can also rename something and I can delete it so if I no longer want this logo I can delete it. I can also look around at the other things in the preset manager such as brushes, I can look at swatches and what I can do as well is if I don't want a swatch I can click on a color, I can rename it, so I can give it a more appropriate color for whatever project I'm working on or I can delete that color. Likewise I can also save a set of colors, I can also load colors so if someone you're working with has some colors for a character you can load those swatches and as you see here the swatches are in a folder called presets in your Adobe Photoshop CS3 installation. So here's my Adobe folder, here's my Adobe Photoshop CS3 folder, here's the presets and here are the color swatches. You see that the extension as ACO so when someone sends you swatches make sure that you find that color swatches folder and throw it right on in there so that when you wanna load those you can load those swatches and work with them. So it's very, very convenient. Once again you could put everything you that create in here as well including gradients so you can make your own custom gradients and everything like that. Now you'll notice as well you can't create those things in here. So if I double click on something here I can't make a gradient here only when I create my own gradient can I then save it and it winds up in the preset manager. I'm gonna quickly show you something. I'm gonna go ahead and click done and I'm gonna very, very quickly create a pattern. So I'm gonna change my color and once again don't worry about how I'm doing this because I'm show you later on more in depth how this is done. So I'm going to add some noise, actually I should fill this with color first that would be nice. Let me go ahead and fill this layer with some color and I'm going to put a little bit of noise in there. I'm gonna select all and I'm gonna choose edit and I'm gonna choose define pattern. I'm gonna call this noise. I'll click OK and then when I go to my preset manager and I go to my patterns, I double click and here's noise. So once again you don't create things in the preset manager, you literally manage them. You add them; you delete them and you can save these and give them to other people.