Creations by Rose Thorn: A List of Default Tools for PSE7

Today I'm posting something a little different from my normal.

Since I started down the avenue of designing in digital I've discovered that there is a lot to learn about copyright ethics and laws. This is a topic that comes up often in the digital scrapbooking communities and the rules are not always black and white, some are rather gray and are interpreted differently from person to person. Anyway, I'm not going to talk today about the laws or rules as I interpret them, nor will I point you to anyplace in particular on the Internet to learn more about them yourself, instead I just want to state, for my own record, that in my designing, I strive to create original products and although I have used CU (Commercial Use) products created by others (such as a scanned image of a ribbon), I try to do this on a limited basis. I do, however, use quite a few resource tools (like brushes and styles that can be used within the Adobe software programs). When I do use this type of resource, created by other people, I always read the TOU (Terms of Use) documents and follow the rules they set within.

Anyway, the real reason for my post today is derived from one of the rules set in the Designer Survivor contest in which I am participating over at Brownie Scraps; that rule being, we can only use resources (such as brushes and styles) that came packaged with our designer software, no CU resources, whether purchased or acquired for free, can be used. That has a number of people wondering (myself included), 'Just exactly what ARE the defaults of my software program?'

In an effort to help with determining this, I thought I'd share what I discovered as the defaults for my particular software program, which is PSE7 (I purchased it bundled with PRE7). For any other users of this software, I hope this list helps you.

I understand that the location of these files differs somewhat from OS to OS and between a Windows PC and a MAC so I can only offer information from my environment (Windows Vista - 64bit) but if you can find your Adobe preset folder you can easily determine what your default files are by their date created. It appears that they all have a creation date of 9/16/2008 (since PSE7 was released in October of 2008, that would seem to be correct).

So, what follows are both a visual list (screen capture of my preset folders) and a text list of the PSE7 default files for Brushes, Custom Shapes, Layer Effects aka Styles, Patterns and Textures. (Note: If you click on the images, you'll get a closer look.)

Default Brushes are: