C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS\Presets
I found out you have to take all the actions but the brushes I havent figured out yet. I made a copyright type brush in cs and want to add it to cs2 but so far it eludes me. I know where the actions and brushes are in presets but…..
If you create a new action, it exists only in the murky depths of the preferences files.
Trash the Prefs or reinstall Photoshop and you’ll likely lose it.
Only when you expressly "Save Actions", using the palette’s fly out menu, will they be written to the relatively safe haven of the presets folder.
Chris.
As Photoshop engineer Chris Cox so generously councilled me, and which I’ll pass along to you:
Make friends with the Presets Manager.
Exercise your due diligence and read up in the Help files or the PDF manual about how to save, delete and export presets for all the file categories that the Presets Manager handles.
Phos…
re: "Make friends with the Presets Manager."
Very interesting. I had not considered this from a version or PC migration perspective.
Suppose I build a preset based on a particular brush (from an .abr file that’s been loaded into the Brush palette) and save the preset as a .tpl file. Further suppose I migrate the .tpl file to another machine, but not the .abr file.
If I have not loaded the .abr file on which the preset is based on the other machine, do you (or does anyone) know if PS will complain when I try to select the preset via Preset Manager, or is the .tpl "a package deal" – no other files required?
TIA
~Danny~
"I had not considered this from a version or PC migration perspective."
Well, when I move my Presets files, I copy ALL of them, lock, stock and barrel, so the only problems I would anticipate is if there are version— or platform—specific attributes that wouldn’t work in the new location.
What would be your reason for NOT copying everything to the new machine or version? If they won’t work in their new home, you’ll get an alert. Soooo, you’d just need to go back and do what you need to do in an older version.
You DO have older versions of Photoshop on your machine, right?
I wasn’t certain if CS2’s presets would have any new "goodies" in them since I had been using ver 7 and missed an entire version. So I elected NOT migrate the TPL file. If there was anything new, a new default shape, or whatever, I didn’t want to miss it; I realize that I could go experimenting by loading the new default styles and such, but didn’t want to take the time to do it file by file.
Also, it’s long been known that making friends with the presets manager has the added benefit of streamlining the loading of Photoshop. So I strip my Presets down to bare minimum, and load only what I need for a particular session from the HD.
I’m not being argumentative, rather, just sharing that my strategy is different.
Peace,
Tony
The Presets Manager did the trick and the suggestion to RTFM first was relevant. However theres no way to separate the brushes or actions you create from existing ones and its all or nothing so now I have all these duplicate brushes as well as the ones I made. When it bugs me enough I may try to delete the twins but its no big deal. Just more to scroll through.
With the Presets Manager, just select your own ones, and save them to a new set.
Phos…
To clarify, I understand one would migrate all Preset files.
What’s not clear to me is, "Do the .abr files on which the preset(s) are based have to be moved, too?"
