Software:     PhotoImpact 12 and X3

Author:         Maureen Eves-Lavis

Title:             Presets 101
Part 1           Making Presets
Part 2           Saving Your Presets to the Easy Palette
Part 3           Packaging/Exporting Presets for Sharing
Part 4           Importing Downloaded Presets

For Versions: 7.8. XL & Pro - Debisty Designs

Skill Level:  Beginners

Featured Tools:  Easy Palette

Additional Files:  None Required

 

Description:  This is the third part of a four part Presets 101 tutorial for PhotoImpact 12.  It shows how to save the preset you created in Part 1 to your Easy Palette for future use.

Warning: Be sure that any image you use to make these presets are either your own, a part of the PhotoImpact package or free of any copyright restrictions

Versions X3 and 12 has the ability for customised workspace modes.  For this tutorial we shall be using Full Edit so that all tools will be available to you.

Version 11 please use advanced mode

Version 10 has two work modes, Basic and Standard. Basic Mode features a simplified workspace with larger buttons and the most common functions, whereas, the Standard Mode displays all of the functions.  We will be using the Standard Mode in this tutorial.If you see Standard Mode faded out as shown, then this is the mode you are using.  If you change from standard to basic you will lose any presets you may have saved.

 

You can drag this pointer as you go to keep track of your place in the tutorial
 

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Packaging or exporting a set of presets is very easy to do 

By default, PI12 creates a My Easy Palette folder in My Documents on your C drive.  You can choose to use this folder or create another one on a different hard drive, or place on your desktop for an easy find.  It's best to have this folder in a permanent place to keep your presets for easy palette.  Should you ever require to reinstall PI12 then it's always better to have your My Easy Palette or folders containing presets etc. from your easy palette on another hard drive, this way you will not lose anything upon uninstalling/reinstalling and you can just import the .smp files you create.d into PI Easy Palette.  More on this a bit later.

When you've done that, open Easy Palette in PI to show the Gallery where your presets are stored. Right click on My Presets - a box will open named Export Gallery and by default it will show My Easy Palette in My Documents.  If you have made a folder elsewhere then locate that folder.  In the Export Gallery box, tick Package, give it a name and the click save.

If you look in the folder you will see a My Presets.smp

 

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Open the folder where you saved your package and you'll see that your .SMP file has been saved, but there will also be another folder in there which contains all the bump, texture and reflection images you used to create your preset.

                                 

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All that's left to do now is to create a neat little image to show people what they'll be downloading from your web site, zip up the folder containing the .SMP file and images that go with it, and then add them to a web page and upload everything to your webspace.

Below is an example of the sort of image required on a web page to show off the presets you're offering. If you'd like to move on with me to Part 4 of this Presets 101 tutorial, I will show how to import these presets to your Easy Palette for future use.

 

Part 4 Loading Presets to Easy Palette

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