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Creating Your Own Tool Presets
Imagine that you’re working on a text intensive Photoshop project with four other artists. And, coming up with the type styles needed for the project is your job. This job includes the type’s font, size, and other attributes, such as alignment, color, and horizontal or vertical scale — any feature that you can set for one of the Type tools.| Time Saver | After you come up with the type specifications, how do you deliver the specs to the other artists? You could type them all out and send them via e-mail, but that means that each artist has to enter multiple attributes into Photoshop as they need text — not a pretty picture when you think about time spent and the errors that could creep in. Instead, you can create a tool preset for each type spec, save the presets with descriptive names, and then e-mail them to your co-conspirators. The other artists load the tool presets into their versions of Photoshop, and that’s it. Everyone has the same specs and can use them with a click of the mouse. |
Besides creating a new tool preset from scratch, you can also create a tool preset based on an existing tool preset.To create a new tool preset from scratch, follow these steps:
Select the tool from the Toolbox for which you want to create the preset.
Choose the settings you want to save with the tool preset.Depending upon the tool you select, you can use the Options bar, Brushes palette, or Character palette to choose the tool’s settings.
Select New Tool Preset from the Tool Presets palette menu.The New Tool Preset dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 6-5.
Figure 6-5: Enter a descriptive name in the New Tool Preset dialog box.
Type a name for the tool preset.Depending upon the tool you’re creating the preset for, a special check box may also be included in the New Tool Preset dialog box:
Brush, Pencil, or Shape tool: Select Include Color to tell Photoshop to remember the currently selected Foreground and Background color.
Gradient tool: Select Include Gradient to save the currently selected gradient.
Pattern Stamp tool: Select Include Pattern to save the currently selected pattern.
Click OK.The new tool preset appears at the bottom of the Tool Presets palette.
Follow these steps to create a new tool preset based on an existing tool preset:
In the Tool Presets palette, select the existing tool preset that you want to use as the basis for the new tool preset.
Modify the tool preset settings by using the Options bar, Brushes palette, or Character palette.
Select New Tool Preset from the Tool Presets palette menu.The New Tool Preset dialog box appears (refer to Figure 6-5).
Type a name for the tool preset.
Click OK.The new tool preset appears at the bottom of the Tool Presets palette.
Creating new tool presets based on existing tool presets works especially well for the Type tools. For instance, suppose you want to create two Type tool presets that have the same formatting attributes (font, size, horizontal spacing), but one preset uses the Horizontal Type tool and the other uses the Horizontal Type Mask tool. Here’s how to create two different presets:
Create the original tool preset by using the Horizontal Type tool.
Select the tool preset in the Tool Presets palette.
When you select the tool preset, all of the type attributes load into the Options bar and Character palette.
Select the Horizontal Type Mask tool from the Toolbox.
Even though you select a different Type tool, the type attributes remain set in the Options bar and Character palette.
Choose New Tool Preset from the Tool Presets palette menu.
Type a name for the tool preset in the New Tool Preset dialog box.
Click OK.
