Saving and Applying Styles

There are several ways to save your custom layer style settings as a style. With the Styles palette visible, select the layer containing the effects that you’d like to save from the Layers palette, and then do one of the following:
- Choose New Style from the Styles palette flyout menu.
- Click the Create New Style icon at the bottom of the Styles palette.
- Place your cursor over the Styles palette until the cursor icon changes to display a paint bucket, and then click to add the style.
- Drag and drop the layer into the Styles palette.

When saving styles by using any of the preceding methods, Photoshop always displays the New Style dialog box, which allows you to name the style and to specify whether to include layer effects, blending options, or both.
After you’ve finished naming the style and specifying which layer attributes to include, click OK to close the New Style dialog box. Photoshop adds the new style to the set that is currently displayed in the Styles palette. Click any preset style in the palette (custom or default) to apply its saved settings to the currently selected layer in the Layers palette.