Tool Presets
With tool presets you do not need to go back to a setting every time. The settings are saved which can be recalled as and when required.
Happy with the card designed, Tina now wants to create and design many such cards and prepare a card catalog. She needs to extract images from a CD, resize them and then insert these onto the pages with a stock number and headings on each page. No problem. Just design one card page and let Photoshop complete all the other cards. Automation is one of the Photoshop's greatest strengths.
What are Tool presets?
The normal process of creating a design/card/document would involve choosing a tool, color, and size, applying and repeating the complete process all over again. Every time you need to go back to a setting and repeat the entire process again. But with tool presets you can save all these settings, save them and recall them for later use like style sheets. We shall briefly see how to create and use these tool presets.
Tool Presets Palette
Select window > Tool presets. The checkbox at the bottom of palette called the current tool only helps reduce the clutter.
Palette with the Current Tool
To Create a Preset select the tool you want to use for a preset. Make all the settings for the tool as you normally would. Choose Window > Tool presets to open the tool presets palette and click new Preset button. Type in the name for a new tool preset.
The new preset name will appear in the Tool Presets palette. Some tools have additional options like color and gradient available via a checkbox located in the New tool Preset dialog box.
- Brush tool with additional option Color.
- Gradient tool with additional option Gradient
- Freeform Pen tool with additional option Color
- Custom Shape tool with additional option Color
To Use a Preset select a Tool. Select Windows > Tool presets. If preset palette is not available then highlight the preset you want from the tool presets palette. Use the tool with all the preset settings.
