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How To Back up My Ps Brushes Before Update to Ps 2025?

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December 18, 2024
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I work on a Win 11 Pro PC.

I want to back up all my Ps Brushes before updating from Ps 2024 to Ps 2025. And, I want to back them up to a folder on my PC that is not in the Adobe presets file hierarchy on my C: drive.

I know there's an "Export Brushes" option in Ps under the brush tips panel under the Settings asterisk.

Here's the key background info & my question. I have a ton of brushes (Adobe, Web, custom that I've created). I have them organized into topline folders and multiple sub-folders under the topline folders. The sub-folders are where my actual brushes reside. If I click on a topline folder name and then Export will that capture all the sub-folders and the specific brushes (.abr's) within them?

I want to retain the organizational structure and not lose any of the individual brushes when creating brush backups. If I have to back up all sub-folders and brushes individually, I think Adobe will be up to Ps 2026 before I get that finished. If I only must click/export the topline folders, then I have about 10 categories (with multiple sub-categories each) of brushes to export.

Thx! I hope that makes sense .... I hope no one says I have too many brushes! 😉

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Stephen Marsh

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Don't forget to save any custom actions to .atn file:

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/01/photoshop-custom-action-file-backup.html

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

I'd say that Actions are the things I have lost most often with updates. It can be scary if you have a lot of them, so check Stephen's links for sure if you use them.

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lvartist

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Screenshot of your post regarding the location of brushes, ETC,

When I open "Brushes" the folder is empty. Likewise every folder is empty. I have at least a thousand brushes in CC 26.2. Many are my custom brushes. Acccording to the "brushes" folder I have no brushes.

In the VIEW menu of file manager all hiden files/folders are shown.

Why is the "brushes" folder and all other folders empty?

Michael

Trevor.Dennis

That worked ! I probably have 50 to 75K hours working professionally in PSD in the POD market. But all those hours would never have led me to your solution. You are a real community expert.

As an added bonus, I also have BrushBox 2.5.4, your solution automatically adds the abr brush to BB. Very helpful.

Thanks for the solution. I will be saving your reply to a permanent text file for future use.

Michael

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

That's exactly what I do. My Photoshop assets are in My Docs folders with shortcuts to those folders placed in the presets folders.

C:\Users\[Your User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2025\Presets\Brushes

If you do forget and find you have lost your presets, then you should find that the previous version with still have some content, but it only goes back one major version

If you create new brush .abr groups and export them, then they will be saved to the Photoshop presets\brushes folder, so you'll need to move then to your new central location manually.

https://helpx.adobe.com/nz/photoshop/kb/preference-file-names-locations-photoshop.html

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