The Preset Manager in Photoshop
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The Preset Manager in Photoshop

on Jun 22nd 2011 with 9 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 20 Minutes

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This entry is part 26 of 29 in the Photoshop Basix Session
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Are you new to Photoshop? Have you been trying to teach yourself the basics of Photoshop but have found the amount of educational material available on the net a bit overwhelming? As the world’s #1 Photoshop site, we’ve published a lot of tutorials. So many, in fact, that we understand how overwhelming our site may be to those of you who may be brand new to Photoshop. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video series demonstrating everything you will need to know to start working in Photoshop.

Photoshop Basix, by Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, Martin Perhiniak includes 25 short video tutorials, around 5 – 10 minutes in length that will teach you all the fundamentals of working with Photoshop. Today’s tutorial, Part 26: The Preset Manager is a bonus tutorial in this series and will explain how to use Photoshop’s preset manager to help you manage your collection of Photoshop brushes, gradients, swatches, and more. Let’s get started!

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  • Trevor

    This a is a bonus indeed, thanks again, really looking forward to 27.

  • http://tutness.tumblr.com Tutness

    Oh Martin, you da man!

    You can even make presets sound reasonably interesting ;) Thanks for taking the time to make these.

  • Shinoda

    Hi,
    how can i create a groups with similar brushes or fonts? Or separate them with line.. They are in alphabetical order and it isn’t very synoptical..

    For example:
    I want to create thematic groups with handwriting fonts, cartoon fonts, retro fonts etc. The same with brushes, patterns atc.

    THX

    • http://www.yesimadesigner.com Martin Perhiniak
      Author

      Hi Shinoda,

      Use the Preset Manager. You can select and move items back and forth. You can’t put division lines though.

      • Shinoda

        Hi, the presets manager is very useful, but the big disadvantage is, that you can create only sets of single brushes and you can’t create groups of sets. I hope it will be possible in CS6..
        PS: thank you for your reply and tutorial.

      • vikentijs

        Hi! :)
        where you can find the presets manager?

  • http://www.designerist.ch Designerist

    Thank you very much for this bonus tutorial. Very helpful tips!

  • LeslieA

    I have really enjoyed all of your tutorials. I have taken extensive notes so I can refer back. In the last part of this tutorial you said there are 4 presets for the Mixer Brush tool. When I click on the options bar it tells me there are no presets for this brush. I have CS5 but not the extended. Is that why I can’t find them?

  • Vijay

    Part 1 in not loading for me :(

    I tried it several times… please check if it’s fine. Thanks :)