First of all it is important to be aware that saving styles is not allowed in the Simple Layout.

In this tutorial we will show you how to save a style in PostworkShop 3 and how to create style packages, called Stylez. 

Save a New Style

Create a style as explained previously in 2.2.1 "Layered Styles" for the Basic Edition or in 2.2.2 "Layered Styles" for the Artist and Pro Editions. Your style can also be a chained style, as explained in 2.3.1 Chained Styles and in 2.3.2 Chained Styles.

To save the created style, choose “Save Current Style” from

• File menu
• Styles menu
• Save Style floppy icon in the Layer browser

Whether you choose to save from either of the menus, or the Save Style floppy disk icon the “Save Style” dialog box appears.
In the Publishing pane, enter a name for your style in the Name field and select the Category where the styles should be saved. Your own styles can be saved only in the User category, but you can create as many child-categories as you want inside the User folder.

You can also add a short description to the style or you can leave it blank. Next add a thumbnail to your style.  Either take the picture you are working with and using the scroll bar under the magnifying glass icon to zoom in or out of it to personalize the thumbnail, or choose from the reference images in the window to the right of your picture. Click OK to save the style.

Your style will appear in the User/chosen-category. We saved our style called "Flower style" in a child category we created within the User category and that we names: "new styles."  (see 2.0 "The Style Browser" to know how to install new categories).

You can test your style by applying it to your image. The style’s name is displayed on the Default Layer just like the built-in styles.

As you can see, the previously saved style has no exported property which means that if we wanted we could not modify it. You c an update your own style by clicking the double-arrow button in the Layer browser (on the left of the Save Style button). The Save Style dialog box appears. Switch  from the Publishing pane to the Properties pane and check all the properties you want to export. In this case, we selected the Brush family and its main properties like brush sizes and Sharpen too. You can set the range values – minimum and maximum – to each property. These range values serve as the recommended values when applying the style to other images.
Note: Any non-exported property will keep their current values, which will define the specifi look of the style.

Click OK when you’re done. Your style is now updated. You can test your style again by applying it to your image. The style’s name is displayed on the Default Layer just like the built-in styles and its exported properties can now be modified in the Properties+Preview pane to best fit your images.

How to create a *.stylez package
“Stylez” is the name of a zipped file containing more than one style. To create style packages, simply save, and publish your styles.  Then zip them into a single archive (without directories). Rename the resulting file with a *.stylez extension.

It is recommended that you use 1000x1000px images to create styles that you intend to publish and share. This is the optimal image size that allows the correct property scaling. If you work with 4000x4000px size images, the properties (exported or not) will not be rescaled correcty on the end user's smaller images, while scaling from 1000x1000px to a 2000x2000px will surely give best results.

Choose the thumbnail that best shows the applied style’s effect on an image. You can zoom into the thumbnail to personalize it or to show more details, such as the textures, of your style. The reference images are 400 x 400 pixels, and the thumbnails are 200 x 200 pixels.

If you have several instances of the same filter in your style, their properties would have the same names if they were exported unchanged. The "Save Style" dialog will not allow this, so you must rename these exported properties. This is a good time to give them descriptive names, based on the role of the filter in the style.