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scraphappy22
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July 7, 2021
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Photoshop elements 2021 styles

  • July 7, 2021
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I have hundreds if not close to a thousand of layer styles I purchased and could bulk upload in the past.  Is there a way I can do this in elements 2021?  It takes days to do it one by one. I tried doing it by adding in like I did in the past and they don't show up.   Please help.....

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Phil Pickering
Phil Pickering
Legend
July 7, 2021

Hi 🙂

 

There are three "official" methods for loading Styles (.ASL files) into PSE2021:

 

  1. Styles panel > Load Styles...

  2. Styles panel > Preset Manager... > Add

  3. Edit > Preset Manager... > Preset Type: Styles > Add

 

Unfortunately, you can only add one Style (.ASL file) at a time using any of these three methods (unlike Brushes and Actions, which use different file formats and are managed in a different way to Styles).

 

In earlier versions of PSE you could get around this limitation by copy & pasting multiple .ASL files into a number of different folder locations depending on the version of PSE you were using, and then force-rebuild the ThumbDatabase.db3 and MediaDatabase.db3 files.

 

Unfortunately, that workaround no longer appears to work.

Jeff Arola
Community Expert
Jeff ArolaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
July 7, 2021

What operating system are you using?

 

Your using Window>Styles to load the styles?

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scraphappy22Author
Participant
July 7, 2021

Windows 10.  I'm trying to go into presets or through app data then photoshop elements  I've tried every way I've done in the past to just bulk add them. None of them working 

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