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Manage Presets
The Preset Manager
The Presets Archive stores all presets, either factory produced or user produced in folders according to their filter (or effect or other) and have the file extension of .pst. A nice feature of DCArt10/DC Forensics10 is the ability to share presets you have created with other users via email, or web pages like the Diamond Cut Users Forum. You can export any or all of your presets to share them with other users by sending them via a single (.zip) file to the Presets sharing portion of the Diamond Cut Users Forum. Go to www.diamondcut.com and then click on the Users Forum link. Once there, you will see the preset exchange area. This exchange provides both uploading and downloading capability with an area for you to describe the preset(s) that you are posting. You will find approximately 200 presets that you can download from that site that have been created and uploaded by Diamond Cut Users over the years.
Your current presets are stored in a Presets folder in the Diamond Cut directory on your hard disk as a single small file for each preset. Since DCArt10/DC Forensics10 comes with over 1000 presets, it would be cumbersome to find and share them by sending or receiving one file for each preset. The Manage Presets window makes this easy. You simply create an Archive by clicking on the button and giving the new archive a name. Now you can copy any individual or group of presets into this archive. Double clicking a preset folder will open it and reveal its individual presets. This archive file will exist as a single filename .zip file on your hard disk and will contain all the presets you copied into it. Copying presets does not delete them from your own preset list. This single .zip file can then be sent to another user and opened using the Open Archive function. The user can then place any or all of the received presets into any of his or her personal preset folders.
Saving a Preset (Tutorial)
Download the presets of interest (perhaps onto your desktop for convenience). Presets Archives are simply zip files containing one or more presets. The presets themselves have the extension of .pst, but they are placed in a .zip wrapper.
Once the preset archive is open, on the left side of the dialog box you will see the presets contained in the archive, select the presets you want to import and hit copy or copy all if you want all of them. Copy them to the appropriate filter or effect. Basically, the importing of a preset is just the opposite process as exporting a preset or a set of presets.
Exporting a preset (or a set of presets)
Exporting a preset of a set of them just uses the inverse process of importing them. Set up a directory in which to place a file folder to hold them someplace (often on the desktop for convenience).
The presets themselves have the extension of .pst, but they are placed in a .zip wrapper by the software (manage presets feature found under the edit menu).
The Preset Manager
The Presets Archive stores all presets, either factory produced or user produced in folders according to their filter (or effect or other) and have the file extension of .pst. A nice feature of DCArt10/DC Forensics10 is the ability to share presets you have created with other users via email, or web pages like the Diamond Cut Users Forum. You can export any or all of your presets to share them with other users by sending them via a single (.zip) file to the Presets sharing portion of the Diamond Cut Users Forum. Go to www.diamondcut.com and then click on the Users Forum link. Once there, you will see the preset exchange area. This exchange provides both uploading and downloading capability with an area for you to describe the preset(s) that you are posting. You will find approximately 200 presets that you can download from that site that have been created and uploaded by Diamond Cut Users over the years.
Your current presets are stored in a Presets folder in the Diamond Cut directory on your hard disk as a single small file for each preset. Since DCArt10/DC Forensics10 comes with over 1000 presets, it would be cumbersome to find and share them by sending or receiving one file for each preset. The Manage Presets window makes this easy. You simply create an Archive by clicking on the button and giving the new archive a name. Now you can copy any individual or group of presets into this archive. Double clicking a preset folder will open it and reveal its individual presets. This archive file will exist as a single filename .zip file on your hard disk and will contain all the presets you copied into it. Copying presets does not delete them from your own preset list. This single .zip file can then be sent to another user and opened using the Open Archive function. The user can then place any or all of the received presets into any of his or her personal preset folders.
Saving a Preset (Tutorial)
- Establish the desired filter settings and/or states for a particular filter or effect application.
- Click on the "Save" button.
- Using your mouse, place the cursor at the beginning of the data entry field, and double click the left mouse button.
- Delete any characters in the data field with the "delete" key on your keyboard.
- Type in a descriptive name for your setting (up to 32 characters in length).
- Click on "OK". Your preset setting will then have been saved.
- With the left mouse button, click on the down arrow located on the right hand side of the setting list (located at the bottom of the Filter Dialog Box).
- With the left mouse button, single click on the filter or effect preset setting description you desire from the list.
- With the left mouse button, click on the down arrow located on the right hand side of the setting list (located at the bottom of the Filter Dialog Box).
- With the left mouse button, single click on the filter or effect setting preset that you desire to delete.
- With the left mouse button, click on the "Delete" button. A question box will appear. If you still desire to delete the particular filter preset, click on "Yes" and it will be deleted. If you do not, click on "No" and the preset will be retained.
Download the presets of interest (perhaps onto your desktop for convenience). Presets Archives are simply zip files containing one or more presets. The presets themselves have the extension of .pst, but they are placed in a .zip wrapper.
Once the preset archive is open, on the left side of the dialog box you will see the presets contained in the archive, select the presets you want to import and hit copy or copy all if you want all of them. Copy them to the appropriate filter or effect. Basically, the importing of a preset is just the opposite process as exporting a preset or a set of presets.
Exporting a preset (or a set of presets)
Exporting a preset of a set of them just uses the inverse process of importing them. Set up a directory in which to place a file folder to hold them someplace (often on the desktop for convenience).
The presets themselves have the extension of .pst, but they are placed in a .zip wrapper by the software (manage presets feature found under the edit menu).