{"id":16324,"date":"2010-04-13T22:14:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T22:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2010\/04\/sticky-layer-styles-in-photoshop-cs5.html"},"modified":"2010-04-13T22:14:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T22:14:31","slug":"sticky_layer_styles_in_photoshop_cs5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/13\/sticky_layer_styles_in_photoshop_cs5\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Sticky&quot; layer styles in Photoshop CS5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We used to hear complaints about the default settings in Photoshop&#8217;s various layer effects, especially about strokes always starting out red.  In CS4 we <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2008\/09\/cs4_sweating_the_details.html\">changed the stroke default<\/a> to black, but that was just a stopgap measure that didn&#8217;t address the fundamental problem: No matter what we might pick, people want effects to start with whatever values they happen to prefer.<\/p>\n<p>For CS5 we thought about making layer styles sticky.  That is, after you applied an effect with a particular set of values (e.g. Drop Shadow at 50% opacity), the next time you applied that effect, the dialog would start out using the last-used values.  Sometimes that behavior works well, but just as often it can be confusing and annoying.<\/p>\n<p>We therefore opted to add a pair of buttons (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/adobe\/cs5\/sticky_layer_styles.gif\">screenshot<\/a>) to each effect&#8211;one to establish the default values you prefer (&#8220;Make Default&#8221;), and one to restore the &#8220;factory settings&#8221; for the effect (&#8220;Reset to Default&#8221;).  The wording of the latter isn&#8217;t quite as clear as I&#8217;d like, but hopefully it&#8217;ll make sense to people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We used to hear complaints about the default settings in Photoshop&#8217;s various layer effects, especially about strokes always starting out red. In CS4 we changed the stroke default to black, but that was just a stopgap measure that didn&#8217;t address the fundamental problem: No matter what we might pick, people want effects to start with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}