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Note: You can keep the Catalog open after an import by holding down the Shift key as
you click the Import button. Useful if you want to try a range of filters.

Using presets from the Local Designs Gallery
Once you’ve imported one preset, you can optionally download all the presets to your
Local Designs Gallery, for easier access.
Right click on the "COMPONENTS" > "IMAGE RESOURCES" > "PHOTO FILTER PRESETS" folder
in the gallery and choose DOWNLOAD ALL. Re-open the folder and now you can drag and
drop any of the effects onto your photos, or select the target photo and double click an
effect in the gallery.

Using multiple filters
There are multiple different ‘classes’ of filters and overlays that can be applied together.
The set of filter presets is divided into two folders under "COMPONENTS" > "IMAGE
RESOURCES" > "PHOTO FILTER PRESETS". The FILTERS folder contains presets that affect
the overall look of your photo. It would not be useful to apply more than one of these
presets to a photo and so these will replace each other. In other words, only one of these
presets can be applied to a photo and applying a second will automatically remove the
first.
However the OVERLAYS folder contains various different classes of presets that can be
applied in addition to any of the presets under the FILTERS folder.

This photo has had the "Softlight" filter effect applied from "Filters" > "Effects" and also the
"Stripes" pattern, from "Overlays" > "Patterns".
Each of the presets in the same sub-folder under OVERLAYS will also replace each other,
because it wouldn’t be useful to have for example two different patterns applied. But you
can mix presets from each of the other folders under OVERLAYS as much as you like. So