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The next option is our input devices and here we can go in and configure extended input devices and if I click on that we should end up seeing whether or not we have anything attached to our system such as a WACOM tablet or any or any other type of graphics tools that will allow us to do alternate inputs and mine doesn't have any right now, notice that I have the input controller so that we can control how some of these things are going to be behaving. Then we have our window management, window management allows us to have a hint for the toolbox, how that's going to show up, hint for other docs and how that's going to show up, then we have focus, this activate the focus image so whenever we bring focus to an image it becomes the active image so that we can perform operations on it. Window positions, save window positions on exit, that's going to make it so that if we configure our user interface the way that we want it, GIMP is going to remember that. Right now the last category here in our preferences are the folders and we can expand that out and we'll see that we have different folders for first of all our temporary folder and then the swap folder, temporary folder is where its going to be holding images when it's manipulating them, swap folder's also going to be doing something very similar to that, but it's going to be cashing information there for memory purposes. Next you have brushes, this is going to give you the ability to set where you are storing your own personal brushes and as you can see here this is where I'm storing mine which is on the C drive under Users, GIMP and then. GIMP 2.6 and then Brushes so that's where all of my personal brushes are going to be stored. And if you take a look patterns is more or less the same, just patterns, palettes, and gradients and so forth, very similar locations. They are all under this. GIMP 2.6. OK so our folders is talking about where all of the additional things that we can create are going to be located. Now down here at the bottom we also have a help button which is going to launch our help so that we can find out more about our different preferences. If we've made changes to our preferences and we're not sure what changes we might have made, we can hit the reset button, now in fact I'm going to go ahead and hit that reset button so that I can set all of the preferences back to the defaults so that I don't accidentally change something I didn't mean to. So I'm going to go ahead and hit reset, it's going to ask me if I'm sure if I want to do that and I'll hit reset to confirm that and it changes all of the settings back to default. We also have an OK and a cancel if you click OK it will apply all of the changes that you made to the preferences dialogue and if you click cancel it's going to cancel out of this dialogue without applying any of those changes. Since I hit reset either one of these buttons will do the same thing so I'm just going to go ahead and hit cancel. Now that takes care of looking at the preferences dialogue in terms of customization but I also want to mention again with our dialogues that we can customize how these are behaving by going to the dialogue menu and going to Add tab and selecting one of the dock-able dialogues that we want to add to this particular dialogue area. We also have some of these things where we can close tabs, detach tabs, lock tab to the dock, we can also change preview sizes, tab style so instead of showing just icons it would also show say text, icon and text or current status. An example, the current status is with our brushes because depending on which brush we select it changes what we're seeing there so we can change how our icons in the tab are behaving. Some of these are also going to give us the ability to view as lists or grids if you take a look here down on our brushes for example we'll see view as list or view as grid, right now it is a grid but if I change it to a list it's going to give us names too. I'll go ahead and change that back to a grid then in our dialogue menu here we also have this show button bar which will remove the buttons at the bottom that allow us to add new items and so forth. And we also have down here showing image selection as well as auto follow active image that's going to control how our interface is behaving a little bit here. So depending on which dialogue you're working with will determine what kind of options are available although a lot of these have pretty consistent options throughout. Now that concludes this movie on all of our options for customizing our preferences inside of GIMP.