Loading Brushes Into Photoshop

[juliust9149185]

I just upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11, and I cannot get my Photoshop brushes from my old computer to my new computer. I went into Drive C, and navigated to presets, and copied the brushes from there, but they will not load. I tried Importing the brushes within Photoshop without any luck. Should I have done it a different way? 

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[Sameer K · Accepted solution]

Hey, @juliust9149185. Welcome to the Photoshop Community. I'll help you figure this out. 

You'll need access to the old machine to manually move the Brushes to the new machine. Do you still have Photoshop on the old machine? What operating system were you working on?

If yes, you'll need to:

1 - Group Presets in the Window menu > Brushes panel in Photoshop.

2 - Select a group > Menu button > Export Brushes to output your Brush groups in .ABR format.

3 - Move these ABR files to the new machine & double-click on these ABR files to import. 

If you don't have Photoshop on the old machine, you might have the Photoshop Settings folder. 

1 - Navigate to the Photoshop Settings folder. (Location for macOS & Windows: https://adobe.ly/3Hbbnnh.) 

2 - In the PS Settings folder, copy the Brushes & any other PSP files & overwrite/paste in the new machine at the same location.

Let me know if this helps. Thanks! 

Sameer K

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[juliust9149185]

I have the old machine (Windows 10), and I know where the folder is. I also know how to "Export Selected Brushes," but maybe I did something wrong in the process. I am now running Windows 11 which is a new machine. I will try again in the next couple days, and let you know if I get them all migrated to the new Windows 11 machine. One last thing, can I select all the brushes, or do I have to Export them one at a time?

Thank you,

Julius

[Sameer K]

Thanks for the updates. To speed things up, instead of exporting single brushes, you can drag and drop multiple brushes into a few Groups and export the groups. In the GIF I attached before, I did make a test brush and drag it into the group before exporting it. 

I hope this helps. Thanks! 

Sameer K

[juliust9149185]

Sameer K,

I Exported each Group of Brushes one at a time since some of the groups were a bit large, and that worked perfectly. I'd like to thank you for responding to my issue, and your advice!

Julius

[Bojan Živković]

I have a question: do you have a new computer with Windows 11 installed, or did you simply upgrade the OS version on the same machine?