Working with the Tool Presets Palette and the Tool Presets Picker
The Tool Presets palette and the Tool Presets picker are like smart storage bins for tool presets. The palette and the picker store exactly the same tool presets; they are just different ways to access the tool presets. As shown in Figure 6-1, by default, the Tool Presets palette resides in the Palette Well at the right side of the Options bar; the Tool Presets picker lives at the left side of the Options bar.
Figure 6-1: By default, the Tool Presets picker and Tool Presets palette are both on the Options bar.
Because the Tool Presets palette is, well, a palette, you can pull it out of the Palette Well into the program area if you want complete access to it, or you can close it if you don’t need it. (For more about moving, grouping, and docking palettes, take a look at Technique 2.) If you don’t see the Tool Presets palette anywhere in the Photoshop program area, choose Window>Tool Presets.Both the Tool Presets picker and the Tool Presets palette work in exactly the same way. All you need to do to select a tool preset is to open the Tool Presets picker or the palette, and then click the tool preset you want to use. The tool is automatically selected from the Toolbox with the saved attributes selected.By default, all the tool presets that are loaded into the Tool Presets palette and picker are displayed. If you want to see tool presets only for the currently selected tool, then you must select the Current Tool Only option in either the picker or the palette. (When you turn this option on in one, it is automatically selected in the other.)