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Hi Victoria. I think Christoph interpreted 'My patterns' as patterns you had created. I must admit I parsed it that way till reading your second post. You can retrieve the default patterns by clicking on the four bars top right of the pattern menu.
If you do create your own patterns then you really do need to save them to avoid losing them with a major version update.
Select the pattern or Patterns. They can be a new group or at the bottom of the panel.
Choose Export and give them a nam
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Hi Victoria. I think Christoph interpreted 'My patterns' as patterns you had created. I must admit I parsed it that way till reading your second post. You can retrieve the default patterns by clicking on the four bars top right of the pattern menu.
If you do create your own patterns then you really do need to save them to avoid losing them with a major version update.
Select the pattern or Patterns. They can be a new group or at the bottom of the panel.
Choose Export and give them a name.
This will save them to a .pat file that lives on your drive, and not somewhere in Photoshop Settings
We can see you are using Windows, so this is the file location (Note: I am using the beta version)
C:\Users\[Your User Name0\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop (Beta)\Presets\Patterns
This applies to brush presets (,abr) Shapes, styles gradients etc.
why would i do that?
»my patterns« seemed to imply that you had created custom patterns and not saving those as pat-files would mean risking losing them in case of Preferences corruption.
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