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Welcome to this lesson on more tips and tricks with Paint Shop Pro Photo Preferences. I'm going to open the File Menu, look at Preferences and go down to the very bottom, Switch Language and here my language is English in the United States. I can Switch to all of these listed here. If I feel like speaking French one day, parle vous Francais, I can switch to that and the program will be labeled in French then for me. If we jump out to the Paint Shop Pro Folders Structure, you can see these folders are named without using English or otherwise native language names; Corel 4. And then the files within that are named with numbers. This is so that Paint Shop Pro can switch languages with the click of a button and all of these files won't become a problem in a different language. Now, if we go to File, Preferences, Reset Preferences, this opens a dialog box which allows you to customize what preferences you want to reset; General Preferences, File Locations, Workspace to the Default Configuration, Dialog Boxes and Last Used Settings and then Deleting all Cache Files. These are all very useful and I've used these many times myself, especially Delete All Cache Files. If you find that Paint Shop Pro is acting quirky or is crashing, try deleting all of these cache files and see what happens. You can also make All Toolbars and Palettes Visible on screen. Don't forget about this dialog box. It's a very powerful way to get your preferences back working or if you've over-changed it, to get it back to the default location. Let's look now at Auto Save Settings. You can enable Auto Save and then identify the number of minutes in between Auto Saves, which defaults to five. If you find yourself prone to not saving and then the computer crashing or one of your children comes in and messes things up or turns it on or turns it off rather, you might find Auto Save very helpful; otherwise, uncheck it and don't worry about it. It is a very useful feature however. I don't want to minimize the importance of it and Auto Save can really, really save you if you're working on, you know, business or work-related material or if you don't want to lose your work. Now, if we look at some General Program Preferences, I'll start again from the bottom up and we'll look at Auto Preserve. If you enable Auto Preserve, that means when you edit a file like a photo, Paint Shop Pro will preserve in its own unique folder the original file so that all of your changes are made to a copy and so you're essentially presented with an archival version of this file that Corel preserves automatically. That's pretty helpful. Moving upwards, Auto Action. I'm not going to go through every single one of these. I'm just going to hit a few highlights. Auto Action, you've got three choices; Never, Always and Prompt. If you open up a file and you're working and you've got a vector layer, let's say, and you apply a drop shadow to the vector layer, Paint Shop Pro will ask you more often than not to convert that to a raster layer. If you just want it to do it without asking, change this prompt to Always. If you never want it to do it, change that to Never. See, if you find yourself in your particular workflow always being irritated by being prompted by Paint Shop Pro, switch that to Always. Conversely, if you find yourself wanting to be able to stop the process, change that to Prompt. You've also got a series of warnings here you can turn off, which again depends on your workflow and how irritated you get with the warnings. I'm going to go up to Units now and take a look here, just some helpful hints and tips again. If you find the rulers and pixels, if you're working in let's say more of a print dimensions, if you're looking at creating a flier or a brochure or something in Paint Shop Pro, you can switch that to inches or centimeters so your rulers then display those units, not pixels. You can also change the default resolution, which mysteriously shows up at 200 pixels per inch; just kind of a random value. If you want to work with 300 or 72 or 150, change that here at the Default Resolution. If you want to work in metric units, change that to centimeters. Miscellaneous Preferences; if you want more recent file names you're kind of out of luck but you can reduce that to less than ten. If you do not want the splash screen shown, turn that off here. Paint Shop Pro will just load. Palettes, if you find yourself wanting in work in HSL instead of RGB in the Material Palette, change that here, as well as working in hexadecimal versus decimal. Keeping moving up here. And I think that about covers it. Those are some tips and tricks, not an absolutely comprehensive list of everything possible with Preferences, but just some highlights, things that I like to do and I think you might benefit from.