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Welcome to this lesson on managing Effects Settings. Along with managing Presets which are associated with tools managing Effects and other types of settings like that which are accessed through the Menu Choices mostly is really important in order to gain control of what you're doing in Paint Shop Pro. They're vastly different, the difference between Presets here and the settings I'll show you in a moment. But they also they share use of a Resource Manager for you to manipulate on your computer. So got a picture open that's a photo I took of sunset at a reservoir and just not really going to do anything specific with it, I'll just use it as an example. I'm going to choose the Adjust Menu, Color Balance and that calls up Color Balance Dialog, each type of adjustment and many of the effects have settings that you can see here and most of the time they pop up with the last used setting which you can see the slider here is offset to the cooler side of the temperature, which turns in this case, it turns the photo bluer rather then yellowier or brown. I can access my Effects Presets here by clicking on that Down Arrow and up pops all the different options that Paint Shop and Corel has included with the tool. Now these are specifically identified with this Color Balance Dialog and you've got all these different sorts of options to choose from. Simply select one, it loads the settings in and if you want to expand that in this case we can see all the different settings and let's change to Fluorescent Warm and you can see the difference here on the actual photo, that's the Fluorescent Warm setting. Now these are all the built in presets. What can I also do is make my changes myself, let's just go something almost random, something very much cooler and I'm going to click Save Preset and then enter a name, got my author and copyright is already loaded and now a description and we can see below this options that are included with this preset and you can click the Disk Icon, it will exclude or include specific settings. You can play around with those if you want to, to achieve really the exact precise settings that you want. When you're done press OK, that very cool shows up as a preset that's loaded, its still not applied yet, its just been saved and then if we press OK that'll actually apply that preset on this image. Next time you want to come back, just Color Balance, it shows last used but you can also then access that preset which is sorted down at the very bottom. Now you'll notice the File Location here is stored in My Paint Shop Pro Files, if I come down to presets this is my user location on the hard drive. And if we sort through things here we should be able to find, there, Preset Color Balance, Very Cool. Now the file name itself tells you it's a preset, the second part tells you the tool or menu item associated with that and then the name that I gave it is Very Cool. You'll notice that's a Paint Shop Pro Script, you can actually come back and modify that with notepad or another text editor, change your name and change other factors about it without using Paint Shop Pro if you like. You can also see the specific color temperatures; it's interesting to look inside these files to see what's happening. A lot of times you'll get more information then just looking in Paint Shop Pro. Now I will do this a lot, let's say if I've got a photo I'm working on and I've got a particular levels adjustment that I want to make it or to a group of photos that I took on the same day that all need the same adjustment and I'll make that adjustment, I'll save this and I'll just put like my Photo and number in there so I can remember what Photo I applied it to, press OK, then I have to save that preset and I'm good to go and this helps me keep track of what I did with Photos and I can always bring that back up, reapply or investigate which is very cool to be able to organize your presets that way. If you click on the Reset to Default accesses the default name, if I click on Resource Manager I can again sort, I can also delete presets that I might want to just trash. I can rename a preset, I can copy this preset to the same folder or a different folder on the hard drive and I can also move it which instead of copying it just moves this particular file out of the Paint Shop Pro Directory to wherever I would like and I think you can see from this that the presets you're dealing with the effects. Let's go back in here for a moment, this preset for the effects is different then the presets for the tools but they're managed and manipulated in very much the same way.