If you’ve been using
Photoshop for a while, you probably already know that there are a ton of
presets that come pre-installed with
Photoshop. Things like Patterns, Shapes, Brushes, Styles and Gradients. Maybe
you’re like me and you enjoy playing around in Photoshop when you’ve got some
free time. Personally I like to create posters and play with graphics, so I’m
always creating new brushes or shapes, importing new colors or making new
patterns. Sometimes I’ll be working on a photo or image and change the settings
on a particular tool to get the effect just the way I like it, but after I
close my document, I can never remember my settings again? Does this ever happen to
you?
Fortunately, one of the lessor known features in Photoshop
is also one of the handiest, the Preset Manager. Because there are so many features in Photoshop, a lot
of people don’t even know that it exists? This is a convenient place to save
your custom tools or brushes so you don’t have to remember all your settings the
next time you want to use a particular tool or brush or one of the colors or shapes you've downloaded. This is especially
nice when you tweak brushes or adjust scattering or other shape dynamics, you
can just save it in the Preset Manager and next time you want it you've got it.
Try this the next time you’ve created a new brush or shape.
When you get all your settings just right, just click on the drop-down menu in
the top left of the toolbar (next to your current tool icon) and you’ll see a
little gear symbol. Click that and your first choice is New Tool Preset. Give it a
name you’ll remember and next time it’ll be there when you want to use it
again. Beauty is, you can also sync all
your presets with the Creative Cloud. All you do is go up to Edit>Presets>Export/Import
Presets then select the presets to migrate. If you're like me I'm sure you'll find this little tip
useful.
