Adobe Photoshop CS4 - Manual (Page 48)

41 USING PHOTOSHOP CS4
Workspace
Last updated 1/10/2010
Show or hide Extras
Guides, grid, target paths, selection edges, slices, text bounds, text baselines, and text selections are nonprinting Extras
that help you select, move, or edit images and objects. You can turn on or off an Extra or any combination of Extras
without affecting the image. You
can also show or hide Extras by choosing the Extras command in the View menu.
Hiding Extras only suppresses the display of Extras. It does not turn off these options.
❖ Do one of the following:
• To show or hide Extras, choose View > Extras. A check mark appears next to all shown Extras in the Show
submenu.
• To turn on and show an Extra from a group of hidden Extras, choose View > Show and choose an Extra from the
submenu.
• To turn on and show all available Extras, choose View > Show > All.
• To turn off and hide all Extras, choose View > Show > None.
Note: Showing Extras causes color samplers to be shown as well, even though color samplers are not an option in the Show
submenu.
Presets, Plug-ins, and Preferences
Work with the Preset Manager
About the Preset Manager
The Preset Manager lets you manage the libraries of preset brushes, swatches, gradients, styles, patterns, contours,
custom shapes, and preset tools that come with Photoshop. For example, you can use the Preset Manager to change
the current set of preset items or create new libraries. After you load a library in the Preset Manager, you can access
the library’s items in locations such as the options bar, panels, dialog boxes, and so on.
In general, when you change a preset, Photoshop prompts you to save the changes as a new preset so that both the
original and changed preset remain available.
Each type of library has its own file extension and default folder. Preset files are installed on your computer inside the
Presets folder in the Adobe Photoshop CS4 application folder.
To open the Preset Manager, choose Edit > Preset Manager. Choose an option from the Preset Type menu to switch
to a specific preset type.
You can adjust the configuration of presets by clicking the panel menu button and choosing a display mode from the
top section of the menu:
Text Only Displays the name of each preset item.
Small Thumbnail or Large Thumbnail Displays a thumbnail of each preset item.
Small List or Large List Displays the name and thumbnail of each preset item.
Stroke Thumbnail Displays a sample brush stroke and brush thumbnail of each brush preset. (This option is available
for brush presets only.)
To rearrange the list of items, drag an item up or down in the list.