Working With Pop-Up Panels; Display And Define Menus - Adobe Photoshop CS6 User Manual

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down the Shift key while dragging accelerates the scrubbing by a factor of 10.
Hovering over the title of a slider or pop-up slider shows the scrubby slider

Working with pop-up panels

Pop-up panels provide easy access to available options for brushes, swatches, gradients, styles, patterns, contours, and shapes. You can
customize pop-up panels by renaming and deleting items and by loading, saving, and replacing libraries. You can also change the display of a
pop-up panel to view items by their names, as thumbnail icons, or with both names and icons.
Click a tool thumbnail in the options bar to show its pop-up panel. Click an item in the pop-up panel to select it.
Viewing the Brush pop-up panel in the options bar
A. Click to show the pop-up panel. B. Click to view the pop-up panel menu.
Rename or delete an item in a pop-up panel
Select an item, click the triangle in the upper right corner of the pop-up panel, and choose one of the following:
Rename Tool Preset Lets you enter a new name for the item.
Delete Tool Preset Deletes an item in the pop-up panel.
Note: You can also delete an item in a pop-up panel by holding down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) and clicking the item.
Customize the list of items in a pop-up panel
1. Click the triangle in the upper right corner of the pop-up panel to view the panel menu.
2. To return to the default library, choose the Reset Tool Presets command. You can either replace the current list or add the default library to
the current list.
3. To load a different library, do one of the following:
Choose the Load Tool Presets command to add a library to the current list. Then select the library file you want to use, and click Load.
Choose the Replace Tool Presets command to replace the current list with a different library. Then select the library file you want to use,
and click Load.
Choose a library file (displayed at the bottom of the panel menu). Then click OK to replace the current list, or click Append to add it to
the current list.
4. To save the current list as a library for later use, choose the Save Tool Presets command. Then enter a name for the library file, and click
Save.
(Mac OS) Include the extension of the library file name so that you can easily share the libraries across operating systems. Select
Append File Extension Always in the File Handling Preferences to append extensions to file names.
Change the display of items in a pop-up panel
1. Click the triangle in the upper right corner of the pop-up panel to view the panel menu.
2. Select a view option: Text Only, Small List, and Large List.

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