One feature of Photoshop is its ability to store things like custom shapes, brushes and workspaces so you can use them again and again. Saving settings you use a lot in Photoshop will save you time in future when you need to repeat the process. Here are six handy ways to speed up your work in Photoshop by saving custom settings: 1. Curves (and other) Dialog presets One of my favorite fixes is one involving a curves adjustment in the LAB color space which I introduced in my blog post “ Turn Ho-Hum Color into WOW! with Photoshop “. The fix involves taking an image to LAB color mode and then, on a duplicate of the background layer, applying a particular Curves adjustment. Once you’ve done this once, you can speed up the process next time by saving the Curves settings as a preset. To do this, click the down-pointing arrow icon to the right of the Presets list, choose Save Preset and type a name for the preset.