browneyedsusan Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 I have so many styles that when I go to load a style they go off of the page. So if I wanted one that say started with R then I can't even see it or get to it. How do I get my list smaller and still keep all my styles. I organized all my brushes and just load them when I need them and I am doing the same with the actions but from what I can see I can't do that with styles. Help someone I need to see my styles. : ) Thanks so much for any help. I am not talking about PSE. I have 7 and have organized them great. I am wanting to organize in CS3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan Neff Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 Hey Susan! I like your name. Okay, I should know more about using styles in PS, but to be honest, since switching to PS I haven't used styles all that much. But I do know that when I was using PSE I was able to sort the styles into folders - I had a folder for metalics, a folder for paper styles, and folders for 'A-F' styles, that sort of thing. It made it more manageable it the styles palette. I wonder if doing something like that works in PS, if creating files and subfiles would make it more manageable in the palette...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
princessrunningfingers Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 I don't have CS3, but I just started using CS4, and there is a preset menu just like the one for brushes in PSE6, which I was using before. I have sorted my styles into groups (metals, fabric, etc.) and that works well for me. As I said, I don't know CS3, so I don't know whether it works that way in it or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lvich Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 I have so many styles that when I go to load a style they go off of the page. So if I wanted one that say started with R then I can't even see it or get to it. How do I get my list smaller and still keep all my styles. I organized all my brushes and just load them when I need them and I am doing the same with the actions but from what I can see I can't do that with styles. Help someone I need to see my styles. : ) Thanks so much for any help. I am not talking about PSE. I have 7 and have organized them great. I am wanting to organize in CS3. Actually, I would advise you against loading ALL your layer styles at once! PS makes it easy to load styles as you need them instead of having to have them loaded in a special spot in the program's directory before opening the program. If you load ALL of them, it will really slow down your program! However, if you want to organize your layer styles by type, load a bunch of layer styles by clicking the right-facing arrow at the top of the Layer Styles palette. Choose Preset Manager. There you can load whatever you want to load. Next, select each style you want in a particular set such as all your metal styles. Click on each style until you have them all selected (if they are one right after the other, you can click on one and then hold Shift and click on the last one) and then choose Save. Navigate to where you want to store your brushes (I choose My Documents/Photoshop Extras/Layer Styles) and give the set a name like Metals. You can then delete these layer styles from the palette and continue making other sets in the same way. Then, when you want to use a particular set, you can come back to the Preset Manager to load it or simply choose Load from the right-facing arrow at the top of the Layers Palette and the set you choose will be appended to the palette. I make one set with all my frequently used styles like drop shadows, etc. and place them in a Favorites set that I keep loaded all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiza126 Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 I have too many styles they don't fit in the little drop-down box on PSE...but I found that I can use the arrow or my mouse scroll wheel to move the list up and down so I can find them all. I haven't tried grouping them yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLLatscrapgirls Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 I had this problem in PSE where I could not see any styles below the drop shadows - what I found was to shrink the size of the screen with the minimize - that gave me back the scroll button on the side of the styles so I could get to the bottom ones - then I resized it with the arrows from the desktop to get it big enough to work on but small enough to see the scroll buttons - hope that makes sense! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
browneyedsusan Posted October 17, 2009 Author Share Posted October 17, 2009 Okay I didn't know you could just add the styles when you wanted to use them. I am going right now to figure that out. I do that with my brushes and actions in PS but thought you couldn't do it with styles. I do know that anything you can load as you use it won't put such a tax on your RAM so I am going to do that right now. Gee now that means I will have to organize my styles. It is so nice when you are done though. Thanks, going to look right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmandaFace Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 id be in trouble if all my styles were loaded all the time! i load mine as i use them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
April Showers Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 You can just drag the style into Photoshop from its folder and that will install it. Easy as can be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
browneyedsusan Posted October 17, 2009 Author Share Posted October 17, 2009 Okay I took all my styles out of PS but have one more question before I do this. Last night I went into preset manager and put all my ex: bannerwoman styles in one style called Bannerwoman. I could not find it afterward so figured I did something wrong. When I started PS back up just now it was there listed at the bottom as Bannerwoman. So if I go to that is shows all of them. Do these load everytime I start PS? I wasn't sure. I know it is better to load as you go so it doesn't bog stuff down. PS and PSE bog stuff down as it is anyway. I am having fits with my new bamboo pen and touch right now and working through that. I like it but not if I keep having it close down my programs. : ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
April Showers Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 And something that wasn't mentioned-- you can print thumbnails of the styles (download the images from the gallery) and use them as a reference when choosing styles. Handy, handy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lvich Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 Okay I took all my styles out of PS but have one more question before I do this. Last night I went into preset manager and put all my ex: bannerwoman styles in one style called Bannerwoman. I could not find it afterward so figured I did something wrong. When I started PS back up just now it was there listed at the bottom as Bannerwoman. So if I go to that is shows all of them. Do these load everytime I start PS? I wasn't sure. I know it is better to load as you go so it doesn't bog stuff down. PS and PSE bog stuff down as it is anyway. I am having fits with my new bamboo pen and touch right now and working through that. I like it but not if I keep having it close down my programs. : ) You are probably seeing these IF you have them in the Brushes folder within the Program directory for PS. I keep all my extra stuff (brushes, styles, shapes, etc.) OUTSIDE of PS and load them from there. However, if you do load a brush from outside or inside, it will stay there until either PS quits by itself and you have to reset everything or until you remove it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
browneyedsusan Posted October 17, 2009 Author Share Posted October 17, 2009 I found them but they were in a weird place. I know PSE does them different but didn't know PS did . They were in a hidden folder in appdata but I found them and deleted them. Now I will only load them when I use them. It will be better that way because they stay backed up. Now I only have to back up my PSE styles since you can't load them as you use them. I went in one day and they had disappeared totalle even off of my computer. If they are there I sure don't know where they are. At least I had them in my ACDsee. I would be lost without it. : ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michgirl Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 I, too, had so many styles and it was hard to remember which each one was and my list was too long. Last week I discovered Preset Viewer. It is a program that has a viewer for styles, brushes, shapes, patterns, textures, etc. It is wonderful! Especially for my styles and shapes, I can see what they look like before loading them into CS4. Then you can just right click on the one you want and select either load into PS or PSE. It is great! And it was only $25! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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