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.

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.

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