Two Questions

[photogeek]

I'm fairly new to Photoshop and I've been learning little by little through tutorials and this website seems to be the best so far.

I have Photoshop Elements 6 and I us an iMac (love both).

I have two questions:

1. For some reason in my "Cookie Cutter" tool a lot of images are gone. Would anyone know how I can retrieve them?

2. I've created some brushes, but is there a way to organize them?


~Sharon

[DurbinDigital]

I work on a PC but hope this info applies...

1. To get all of your cookie cutter shapes back you go up into the options bar for your tools, there is a little thumbnail box with the current shape on the far left of the bar, click the little down arrow. This opens the shape selection box. In the top right of this box (next to the scroll bar) there is a double right pointing arrow set, click the arrows. This will give you a flyout menu with all of the categories of cookie cutter shapes, click on ALL ELEMENTS SHAPES and it will put thumbnails of ALL of the shapes into the shape selection box.

2. Not real sure what you mean by organizing brushes, but the following will describe how to save a brush set. After creating a bunch of brushes you want in the set, you click the little down arrow next to the brush preview thumbnail (top left of the options bar), this opens the brush selection box. Right click (or ctrl click on a mac) and delete the brushes you DO NOT want in the brush set (like all of the default brushes that you start with) **NOTE** if you have a lot of new brushes in the box but don't want them all in the same set, save ALL of them in a master set so you can reload them and create smaller sets from it. Otherwise when you delete the new brushes without saving them somehow, they will be GONE! After you have deleted all of the "extra" or "not wanted" brushes and all you have left are the ones you want in the set, click the set of right pointing arrows in the top left corner of the brush selection box, this flyout menu has an option at the very bottom of the list called SAVE BRUSHES. This opens a save box (defaults to the brushes folder for the version of PS/PSE you are using), where you can name your brush set. You can also navigate to a different folder/location on your computer (or even an external hard drive).

Hope this was helpful!