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Fotomaker01RA
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January 7, 2025
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Color Lookup Files Missing - After Ps 2025 (production vers. rel. 26.2) Update

  • January 7, 2025
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This happens every year when I update to the new annual version. So I dread (and delay) updating. It happens even though I click the option to carry everything from one year's release to the next.

 

Only the default LUTs appear in my new Ps 2025 under Adjustment Layer options. I want my full collection of lots of LUTs (some custom developed by me, some purchased and downloaded from the Web). But now I can't see where to find the previous lists on my Win 11 PC in order to (yet again as in past yrs) copy them and paste them into the Ps 2025 file hierarchy.

 

I already tried looking under:   C:Users,[Me],Appdata,Roaming,Adobe,AdobePs2024,Settings       - and I don't see a listing for them there. I know I've found the files and been able to copy them in the past (b/c, as noted, this annoyance happens every year).

 

If I'm looking in the wrong place or there's another method to find, retrieve and copy all my LUTs, not just the defaults, to Ps 2025 so they show up in the list when I click on the 3D LUTs box under the Color Lookup adjustment layer I'd greatly appreciate it. Thx in advance for the help!

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silk-m
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silk-mCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 8, 2025

If you save your user's 3DLUTs in the following location, it will be carried over during updates.
"3DLUTs" Folder is not created by default, so you will need to create it yourself.

 

Windows:

Users\[user name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop [version]\Presets\3DLUTs

Mac:

Users/[user name]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop [version]/Presets/3DLUTs

--Susumu Iwasaki
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    Fotomaker01RAAuthor
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    January 21, 2025

    This is what I was hoping to get an answer about for my Windows system.

     

    i.e., How to avoid having to do the Cut/Paste maneuver every year and, instead, have all my LUTs (not just the default Adobe ones) carry forward from one annual release to the next.

     

    Thx! I'm very visually oriented (I guess not surprising for a photog...) so your snips are helpful to me.

    BrettN
    Community Manager
    BrettNCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    January 8, 2025

    The default storage location for 3DLUTs is in the Photoshop application folder: 

    • C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop [VERSION]\Presets\3DLUTs

    This is not a preference folder, so it does not transfer over to newer versions of Photoshop when you choose to copy settings. You'd have to manually copy yours over to new versions after installation.

     

    The default directory for Abstract and Device Link profiles is another location: 

    • C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Color Profiles

    This location is universal to all versions of Photoshop. However, on Windows, Photoshop doesn't prepopulate these profiles into the drop-down menu as it does on Mac. 

     

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      Fotomaker01RAAuthor
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      January 21, 2025

      Thank you. That helped me find the older files location for me to copy/paste from Ps 2024 to Ps 2025. At least I can use my LUTs again now.

       

      Now I just need to figure out a way not to have to do that each year. Which was what I was hoping there was an answer to in my post above.

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