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In this movie, we're going to talk about using Presets. As we saw in another movie, Aperture makes it easy to batch process images by using the Lift and Stamp Tools. However, there's another way that you can save time when making adjustments to groups of images that have similar issues and that is to use the Presets. Presets are available for each Brick in the Action Icon. Any time you've made an adjustment, you'll see an option to Save as a Preset. That's available in each and every one of the Bricks. Once you make the adjustment, you can save those adjustments as the Preset. For example, perhaps you liked a certain White Balance Setting. I like the white balance in this image with the Raw Fine Tuning Decode of 1.1 but there are other advantages to using the 2.0 Decode. But when I change to the 2.0 Decode, the white balance changes slightly and I don't like it as much. And I have an entire group of images that were shot that way. In fact, there's a whole series of images that were shot that day in the same conditions. So I can come and manually adjust the white balance more to the way I liked it. Perhaps like that and then I can save that as a Preset. I'll go to the Action Icon and choose Save as Preset and a new Dialog appears. All the information as to the actual change or the actual adjustment is already here. All I need to do is give it a name. So I'm going to call this 1.1 WB for 1.1 White Balance, at least on this image. And then I'll click OK. And when I come over to this image and I want to change it over to the 2.0 Decode, now when I look at the white balance, I can go back to that Action Icon in the White Balance Brick, click on it and see that my 1.1 White Balance Preset is right there. When I click on it, my white balance is immediately changed. That can be very handy when you have an entire group of images that you need to change. Or maybe you have a white balance that you like to use with your studio shots and you want to plug it in so that you can always apply it quickly. There are a lot of ways to use the Presets. But if you find that you no longer need a Preset, go back to the Action Icon and choose Manage Presets. Choose the Preset. Now, in this case we only have the one because that's all I've added and I'll click the Delete Key on my keyboard and I'll get a Warning Dialog. Am I sure that I want to delete the selected Adjustment Preset? And I'll go ahead and say Delete the Adjustment Preset and you can see now that it's gone. I'll click OK. When I look at the Action Preset, the Preset if of course no longer there. So you don't have to end up with an unruly mess of Presets. Although there's not an overall Preset that will contain the settings for multiple Bricks, that's actually more the province of the Lift and Stamp Tools, using Presets for common problems can save you time.