Cadman,
I think that Collin’s suggestion of saving the "workspace" is the answer. As you are working on projects that utilize your many different effects, you will save your workspace as a "descriptive palette." Names that are meaningful to you and are indicative of the tools necessary to accomplish the function. Then you will be able to utilize that for each different type of need.
Patty
Patty,
I think that Collin’s suggestion of saving the "workspace" is the answer
I’m not conviced that Colins answer is what the poster is looking for. He has mentioned the words "Brushes", "effects", and "filters" in both posts. Saving the workspace only saves pallet locations, not loaded styles, etc. AFAIK, those are all driven by the presets manager.
Cadman,
Filters load from the Filters folder of photoshop. Not much of a management issue there.
As far as styles, brushes, patterns, etc. Load them up then, in the presets manager. Load up as many as you like. If you find PS becoming sluggish, that’d be one place to look for trimming.
Even if you do as I suggested and only load the ones you need for this session, they are still easily at your disposal through the little triangle in the respective pallet: e.g., want more styles loaded? Go to the styles pallet and add more. <shrug>
Tony,
You’re right—I didn’t think it through properly, plus I usually post a disclaimer saying, "I’m new etc."—I must have been experiencing a "surrealistic" moment of competence.
Sorry for the bad advice.
Patty 🙁
