Setting Preferences - Adobe PHOTOSHOP 6.0 Manual

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Looking at the Work Area
3 From the Preset Manager pop-up menu do one
of the following:
• Choose Reset to restore the default library for
that type. Select Append to append the default
presets to the current set, OK to replace the
current presets with the default presets, or Cancel.
• Choose Replace to replace the current library
with the contents of another libraryloaded
from a file.
To save a subset of a library:
1 Choose Edit > Preset Manager.
2 Choose a preset type from the Preset Type
menu.
3 Shift-click to select multiple presets. Only the
selected presets will be saved to the new library.
Choose Save Set, then enter a name for the
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library. If you want to save the library to a folder
other than the default, navigate to the new folder
before saving.
To rename presets contained in a library:
1 Choose Edit > Preset Manager.
Choose a preset type from the Preset Type
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menu.
Select a preset in the list.
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Choose Rename, then enter a new name for the
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brush, swatch, and so on. If you selected multiple
presets, you will be prompted to enter multiple
names.
Changing views of the Preset Manager
You can change the view of the Preset Manager to
display presets by name, by thumbnail, or for some
preset types, you can choose to show both the
name and thumbnail of each item. Only the
available choices for each type of preset display
when you change the view for that preset type.
To change the view of the Preset Manager:
In the Preset Manager dialog box, choose one of
the available views from the pop-up menu:
Text Only to display the name of each preset
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item.
Small Thumbnail or Large Thumbnail to display
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a thumbnail of each preset item.
Small List or Large List to display the name and
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thumbnail of each preset item.

Setting preferences

Numerous program settings are stored in Adobe
Photoshop 6 Prefs.psp file (Windows) or the
Adobe Photoshop 6 Prefs file (Mac OS) in the
Adobe Photoshop 6 Settings folder. Among the
settings stored in this file are general display
options, file-saving options, cursor options,
transparency options, and options for plug-ins
and scratch disks. Most of these options are set in