Now
we're going to start organising PSP
and planning for the future! I
know it's a pain to do it now, but
believe me, it'll save a huge amount
of frustration later on!! :o)
Like
I said on my index page of these
tutorials, I'm assuming you have a
working knowledge of Windows,
therefore I'm going to assume that you
know where to find Windows Explorer
and how to use it.
So,
with that assumption, bring up Windows
Explorer and navigate to the root of
your hard drive (or if you are lucky
enough to have more than one hard
drive, use the one with the most space
available on it). I've blocked
out the names of my folders on my root
directory on the screenshot for my own
safety and privacy :o)
Now
you need to create a new folder on the
root of that drive - I've called mine
"PSP Tubes"
This
is where you need to put the tubes
that you download and save - you can
create various other folders within
this folder to categorise all your
various tubes.
Now
you need to do the same again and
create a folder for "PSP
Plug-Ins" and "PSP
Selections". If you'd like
to, you can also create folders for
"PSP Patterns", "PSP
Textures", "PSP
Gradients", "PSP
Brushes", "PSP Frames"
and "PSP Shapes".
If
you've still got PSP open, you need to
close it down and open it up
again. I know it's a pain, but
this won't work otherwise :o)
Now
go to the "File" menu, down
to "Preferences" and across
to "File Locations"
You'll
get a dialogue box like this pop up:
In
that top box, you need to change the
path to show the folder you've just
set up for your tubes, so click on the
"browse" button
You'll
get another box pop up over the top of
it showing where the path is currently
pointing to
In
this box, you need to navigate to the
tubes folder on your root directory
and hit OK. You'll notice that
the path has now changed - that's
cool. Now you just need to save
any tubes that you download into the
tubes folder you set up and your tubes
will be available to you in PSP!
:o)
Do
the same for the other folders you've
just set up and it will stop PSP from
slowing down too much as you download
more and more extras to use in PSP.
