I'm a new pro user. I've downloaded new styles, brushes, textures, and palettes. I notice built-in styles are grouped in categories, which may further complicate 'the process.' HOW do I add the new styles and place them in appropriate categories, or is sorting a matter of personal preference? [Mac user] PostworkShop stands alone in my Applications folder. I see a PostworkShop folder in path Macintosh HD/Users/MyName/Library/Preferences/Xycod, which contains empty Styles and Brushes folders. There's also a StyleDB folder containing an .xml style database and backup. Do I unzip the zipped files and drag and drop styles and brushes into those folders? If yes, where do I place textures and palettes? In appropriately named folders I create? Looking ahead, if I have a styles PACKAGE as WELL as a single style that's contained IN a package, will duplicates be flagged, or refused, or just accepted, and how would one reMOVE a style one does not like or doesn't use...to include built-in styles possibly? My questions about adding or deleting styles, I suppose, would apply in similar fashion to brushes, textures, and palettes, no? And how are new styles I might create with specific brushes, textures, and palette colors saved, and perhaps later edited?
Tue, 01/18/2011 - 23:53
Adding downloaded styles, brushes, textures, and palettes and saving those same which I create...later editing or later deleting
Thu, 01/20/2011 - 01:46
#2
Download textures, effects, filters and brushes...
Hello! i'am a new user of Postworkshop, and my question is: Is possible to downloading every textures, effects, brushes and filter in only one moment? is terrible to download one filter or effect one to one!...Sorry for my extremely bad bad english!!!Alfredo55
Thu, 01/20/2011 - 11:43
#3
Hi Alfredo!
well, actually it
Hi Alfredo!
well, actually it is not possible- for now. Textures are mostly high-res, so putting them together in a unique zip file would be probably a too big file. But we will think about it, espepcially for the styles.
best, Rita
You are not supposed to do anything manually in the Xycod folder. This can even make the program unstable, so I suggest not touching it.
For Styles, Brushes and Palettes there is an installer in the corresponding browser window (you can open them from the Styles menu). You can also install brushes and palettes from the appropriate selector/editor windows when you need one in the style property editor.
External textures are not handled by the current program version. They are provided on the sites as bonus material, you should blend them into your composition as you would do in your usual image editor. Consequently you can put them on your machine wherever you keep your other textures. Note: unlike in usual editors, PostworkShop effect Layers are inside an image, so additional images can be added as new Objects.
About organizing styles: new styles (created or imported) are always put into the User folder of the style browser. Inside the User folder you can organize them as you like by creating subfolders (and drag&drop). If you want to find them in the folders of the built in styles (e.g. a new pencil drawing style in the Pencil folder) you can send a shortcut there using the context (right-click) menu of the given style thumbnail.
You can also delete unwanted styles using the context menu. It won't work though for the built-in styles.
Brushes and palettes can be deleted from the corresponding manager windows, mentioned above.
A few tutorials which may help you:
- http://postworkshop.net/tutorial/511-create-and-import-your-own-brushes-...
- http://postworkshop.net/tutorial/512-import-adobe-photoshop-brushes
- http://postworkshop.net/tutorial/34-palette-editor
Bela