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Transfer brushes, effects etc from one computer to another

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
February 4, 2025
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Hi,

I'm working as IT support for my organization. We've just got one of our users a new iMac. She does have a lot of things that aren't stock in her old one such as brushes, effects, settings and so on. How do I help her transfer all of this stuff from her old iMac to her new one? It would be a huge time-save not having to set up years and years of work again from scratch.

She's also using more apps like InDesign, Illustrator and Lightroom which the same applies to them.

Thankful for any helpful response. Regards,
Kristoffer

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creative explorer

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@kristoffer_9298 if you can copy the brushes (ABR) on a thumbdrive or to the server that would work perfectly well. I get my students to install brushes each time we want to learn the use of brushes.

In Photoshop, open the brushes panel, and load brushes by importing them... In the brushes panel, click on the drop down hamburger menu, and select Imort Brushes. Locate the brushes and select all those brushes, and it will now show up. Click on Open when done.

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c.pfaffenbichler

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Personally I would recommend they copy the abr-file/s into

~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop 2025/Presets/Brushes

right away and load them from the dropdown-menu, so they do not get lost in case of Preferences-corruption.

AxelMatt

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See here: Migrate presets, actions, and settings

My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 8 - PureRAW 6 - Topaz Photo AI

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kristoffer_9298Author

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This didn't work. When the end user clicked to export, it asked to do so for 2020 PS, despite the user being on 2025. When we proceeded, it still failed.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

This didn't work. When the end user clicked to export, it asked to do so for 2020 PS, despite the user being on 2025. When we proceeded, it still failed.

By @kristoffer_9298

Please explain what you mean exactly and illustrate with screenshots.

Did she save all her custom Brushes as abr-files, custom Patterns as pat-files etc.?

If so you should be able to copy the files from

~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop 2025/Presets

and some others (Workspaces) and the unsaved ones (various psp-files like Brushes.psp for example) from

~/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop 2025 Settings

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