Working With Presets - Adobe PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS Manual

• Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS),
and choose Clear History from the palette menu to
purge the list of states from the History palette
(and from the Undo buffer) without changing the
image. If you get a message that Photoshop
Elements is low on memory, purging states is
useful, since the command frees up memory.
Important: This action cannot be undone.
Choose Edit > Purge > Histories to purge the list
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of states from the History palette for all open
documents.
Important: This action cannot be undone.
To replace an existing document with a selected state:
Drag the state onto the document.
Note: This will replace the original image without
changing its name. Make sure to choose File > Save
As to rename the image if you want to keep the
original image.

Working with presets

Photoshop Elements provides predefined brushes,
swatches, gradients, patterns, layer styles, and
custom shapes called presets. Think of presets as
ingredients for creating an image. You select
presets through pop-up palettes in the options bar.
The Fill dialog box, and Layer Styles, and the
Swatches palettes also display presets.
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Presets are organized by type into libraries. Each
type of library has its own file extension and
default folder. You can use the Presets Manager to
load different preset libraries. The presets you load
in the Presets Manager correspond to the presets
that appear in pop-up palettes and regular
palettes.
Using pop-up palettes
Pop-up palettes appear in the options bar and
provide access to libraries of brushes, swatches,
gradients, patterns, layer styles, and custom
shapes. When closed, pop-up palettes display a
thumbnail image of the currently selected preset.
When you click the triangle to the right of the
thumbnail image, the pop-up palette opens to
show you the currently loaded preset libraries. You
can change the display of a pop-up palette to view
presets by their names, as thumbnail icons, or with
both names and icons.
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The Brush pop-up palette in the options bar. A. Click to
open the pop-up palette. B. Click to view the pop-up
palette menu.
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