Setting Up Your Tools with the Preset Palette


In the "Creating or Displaying a Brush" section in Chapter 3, "Adding Content with Tools," you learned how to create and use your own custom brush in Photoshop. In addition to creating a custom brush, you can create a preset. To make a preset, you select a tool, choose your favorite settings for the tool, and then save the preset. The preset stores your favorite settings for the tool. Later, when you load the preset, the tool and the specified settings immediately become active. This section describes how to create and use presets, as well as how to load additional brush, color , or pattern choices for your tools using the Preset Manager.

Saving a Preset

Because Photoshop offers so many tools and settings, you have nearly unlimited possibilities for editing images. Over time, however, you'll probably develop favorite techniques that involve using a particular tool and particular settings. Rather than having to remember the desired tool and all the associated settings, you can simply save each favorite combination as a preset using the Tool Presets palette.

  1. Click on the desired tool . Its options will become active in the options bar.

  2. Choose the desired settings in the options bar, and choose a foreground or background color if necessary. These settings will become the current settings for the tool.

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  3. Click on Window . The Window menu will appear.

  4. Click on Tool Presets . The Tool Presets palette will open .

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  5. Click on the Create New Tool Preset button at the bottom of the palette. The New Tool Preset dialog box will open.

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  6. Type a name for the preset in the Name text box. The preset name will appear in the dialog box.

  7. Click on the Include Color check box as necessary. When it's checked, Photoshop will save the current color selections along with the other preset settings.

  8. Click on OK . The dialog box will close, and the new preset will appear in the Tool Presets palette.

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Using a Preset

Most presets that you create are available from the options bar for the tool you select.

  1. Click on the desired tool . The option bar will change to match that tool.

  2. Click on the Click to open the Tool Presets picker button . A window with presets for that tool will appear.

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  3. Double-click on the desired preset . It will now be selected, and you can begin using that tool.

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Adobe Photoshop CS Fast & Easy
Adobe Photoshop CS Fast & Easy (Fast & Easy (Premier Press))
ISBN: 1592003451
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 179

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