The Configuration Problem
You've built a complex batch: CSV columns mapped to layers, multiple Beast Mode rules handling conditional visibility, color swaps, and Smart Object replacements, export settings tuned per client, and a custom naming pattern. The batch runs perfectly. Next week, the same client sends updated data. Do you remember every setting? Do you set it all up again from scratch?
This is where presets come in. Xlaypand lets you save your entire configuration — every mapping, every logic rule, every export setting — as a named preset. Next time, you load it in one click and you're running.
What Gets Saved
A preset can capture the complete state of the plugin — but it doesn't have to. When you save, a dialog lets you choose exactly which parts to include: Logic Rules and Beast Mode actions, export format, file naming, row filters, post-export actions, logging, and the output folder path. Need just your logic rules without the export settings? Check only what you need and save. Want the full configuration? Hit Check All and you're done.
The same flexibility applies when loading. You don't have to apply everything a preset contains — you can select which sections to restore. This means you can mix and match: load the logic rules from one preset, the export settings from another, and keep your current file naming as-is.
Layer matching: Presets reference layers by name. When you load a preset onto a new template, Xlaypand matches saved layer names to the current document. If a layer name doesn't exist in the new file, that mapping stays empty — the rest of the preset loads normally and you just reconnect the missing ones manually.
Real-World Use Cases
Weekly Social Media Batch
A marketing team produces 50 social media posts every Monday from a CSV the content team delivers on Friday. The template is always the same PSD. The CSV structure is always the same columns. The export settings are always JPG at 1080×1080 for Instagram.
Without presets: the designer spends 15 minutes reconfiguring the plugin every Monday. With a saved preset: they open the PSD, load the preset, select the new CSV, and click Export. Total setup time: under 30 seconds.
Multi-Client Agency
A design agency serves 10 clients, each with a different template, different CSV structure, and different export requirements. Without presets, the operator needs to remember (or document externally) how each client's batch is configured. With presets, each client has one or more named presets. Switching between clients is instant — load the preset, load the CSV, run the batch.
Presets and the Render Queue
Presets integrate with the Render Queue for fully unattended batch processing. When you add a job to the queue, the preset is embedded in the queue item. The queue can process multiple jobs overnight — each with a different template, CSV, and preset — without any manual intervention. Open Photoshop, start the queue, and come back to finished exports in the morning.