ABSTRACT
Photoshop provides many settings for the various pieces used to edit an image. Tools have settings. New documents have settings. So do other parts of the application you are likely to use regularly. By capturing these settings and saving them to a file, you can create a preset. Those values define how a specific feature works in Photoshop, such as how a brush paints on a blank document or how a Camera Raw file is rendered into a document for Photoshop to edit. Many areas of the application allow you to save presets and apply them. Saving these settings allows you to explore features while always retaining the values that you know work. A preset might be one of many that you use for different subjects, styles, or even types of printer paper. Tuning settings for use as presets is a way to customize Photoshop, so you can easily repeat your work.
