Presets don't show

[Richard Wittstruck]

I downloaded some presets i found on the blog. The one called toolbox works but none of the others show up. I downloaded chuck's shooting stars,funpac ,etc. Anyone have an answer? Richard

[Donna Kuhn]

i have the shooting stars and fun pack under the general/default category. if you don't put them in the right category they don't show up. i occasionally have presets that don't show up no matter where i put them and i don't really understand it. i don't have toolbox so i may have had trouble with that one.

[Synthetik]

You can always drag and drop presets on the studio artist icon in the finder or in the dock and load them that way. Or run the file import menu to import a paint preset.

If you want them to show up in the preset browser, you need to make sure you put them in the right place in the finder hierarchy.

Here's some info from the studio artist user guide pdf on presets:

Presets are predefined patches stored as files on your hard disk. You
can organize your presets according to Collection, Category and Patch
names within a Category. The Patch name is the name of the preset
file located on disk. The Category name is the name of a subfolder in
a particular Collection folder and its associated Patch files are located
within the subfolder.

Collections provide a means to organize a set of Categories and their
associated Presets. The Collection name is the name of a folder at the
top level within a particular preset folder and its associated Category
are folder names located within it.

Collections are the first level of folders located within the Preset folder.
Categories are the second level of folders located within each Collec-
tion folder.

Don't store loose presets directly in a collection folder, store them in a specific
category folder located within a given collection folder or they will not be
found by Studio Artist. The exception to this rule are loose presets at the top
level in the Preset folder itself, which will appear in the automatically gener-
ated General category in the first Collection.

[Donna Kuhn]

thanks, i had no idea you could drag and drop to the icon. do they just go where they're supposed to go?

[Synthetik]

They load as imported presets. They don't go to anywhere in the preset folder hierarchy, they just import. It's like running a file : import menu on the preset file.

You can just double click them as well and they load and studio artist will start up if not running, but if you have multiple versions of the studio artist application on your hard disk it's unclear which one will start up to open it.

[Richard Wittstruck]

Thanks a bunch. I will get the hang of this thing yet. Everything is working now.
Richard