As it stays in the "Scanning for New Extensions" mode for the longest time, do I literally have to load each extension from whichever folder in order to eliminate the long delay? Please say no…
Sheesh! That’s crazy!
There is no reason to have all those things loaded at the same time. Stash them in a folder somewhere and load them as needed. Use the Presets Manager to organize them in sets and evict the ones you aren’t using from the palettes.
Huh? Photoshop only has about 20 extension plugins available. And extension have nothing to do with presets or palettes.
What are you talking about?
I think the OP meant Presets, sinced he mentioned .atn files.
a nice healthy choice of design options
nothing healthy about that. i doubt you could scroll through them all in an entire day!
"nothing healthy about that. i doubt you could scroll through them all in an entire day!"
Right, but to try them out they’ve still got to be in the Presets folder in my local installation right? Otherwise, how to access them from within PS?
Just about everything can be loaded from any folder on your system. You do not have to have things in the presets folder to load them. You will for example with actions using the load or replace actions command and then find the folder with them on your system and then choose the ATN file you want to load. Styles, brushes, patterns, etc. all work that way as well. The point of the presets folder is to have a select few accessible from the various popup menus in Photoshop. You certainly don’t want 30,000 things listed there. Besides I very much doubt that there is very much in that massive collection of 30,000 that are all that hot. Sure there a few good free actions, brushes, pattern sets, etc. but not even close to 30,000 most are just trash.
Robert
Hi, Robert;
Yes, I put everything on an external drive to load; just wanted to exhaust the Exchange so that for each App I only have to check on the most recent additions… My God, PS has over 90,000 entries… too curious, too curious…
You downloaded everything off the exchange?
Wow!!!!!
Robert
OK, Mariska…I think I get it. That "cloudy mess" is because of the new translucent top menu bar in Leopard.
I’d disable that (i.e. make opaque) as one of the first things after loading OS X 10.5.x
I heard some guy tried to download the internet, it worked and now he says owns it.
Stevie:
10 copy *.* from http: / / *.*.*
20 go to 10
All your bases are belong to us!
(TGIF)
….thereby turning it into a black hole. We’re trapped.
Not all, just about a third; took bloody forever, but it’s much less time-consuming to only have to check the most recent entries periodically… I really like the subtlety of some of the brushes; you can’t get that in FW…
Don’t forget to download every free font you can and have everyone of those active at the same time too.
I have it on good authority that there are well over a million free fonts on the internet. better start downloading.
Paul: Despite the snide comments, the sub-text is that there is no need for this many. You should have made some decisions about what was really interesting, some of them are pretty lame. Sooooooo now you have to figure out which ones are interesting enough to keep.
So, how do you get back to the basic, slimmed down, default "Preset Folder"? Or does one just pick out the rarely if ever used items and store them in a separate "Bloated Preset Folder"?
If they are all loaded, use the presets manager.
Edits>presets manager, and in each entry, select Reset "whatever (brushes…)" in the flyout menu (the little arrow that points to the right)
If they are not loaded, use windows explorer, and sort by date to move all non default files to another folder.
Choice is a matter of discarding, not adding…
Most Photoshoppers go through a collecting stage, then through a studying stage, then a creating, a sharing, a teaching…
And a realization stage of "Oh crap, my folders are bloated! When did that happen!?!" B-)
