Debisty Designs

Software: Ulead PhotoImpact 7, 8, XL or Pro
For PI 12 version of this tutorial see Creative Designs
Author: Debbie Hardisty
Home Page: Debisty Designs
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

Skill Level: Beginners

Featured Tools:
Easy Palette

Additional Files:
None Required

Description: This is the third part of a four part Presets 101 tutorial. It shows how to package/export the presets you created in Part 1 and saved to your Easy Palette in Part 2 ready to share with your fellow PI users.

My terms of use for this tutorial are simple....What you create using this tutorial is yours to do with as you please. A link back to this tut is appreciated but is not a requirement. The tutorial itself along with the images herein are copyrighted to me and all rights are reserved.

1	Packaging or exporting a set of presets is very easy to do, but first you need to create a folder on your computer to save them to. The best place to create the new folder is on your computer desktop so you know exactly where to find it afterwards. When you've done that, open PI and open the Easy Palette to show the Gallery where your presets are stored. Right click on My Presets and then PI8 and higher version users click on Package.....PI 7 users click on Export.
2	A window called the Package Gallery will open (In PI 7 this window is called the Export Gallery). Browse to the folder specially created on your desktop and be sure that's exactly where you're going to be saving to. Give your file a name of your own choosing and then be sure the arial button "All thumbnails of the current group" is selected. Then click on the Save button.
3	Open the folder on your desktop and if you're a PI8 or a higher version user 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. If you're a PI7 user, then unfortunately all you will see is the .SMP file so you will need to copy into that file all the images you used....It's a good job you made a list of them whilst you were creating your presets in part one of this tutorial!
4	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. You're welcome to download the presets that I created during the writing of this tutorial. Just click on the image to start the download process. 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 - Importing Downloaded Presets

Debisty Designs Tutorial Award
When you have completed this tutorial you are welcome to download and display this award on your web page. As a courtesy, you may wish to display your results on the PhotoImpact International Board. This award is being offered on the honour system. Right-click on image and save to your hard drive.

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