Transfer brushes, effects etc from one computer to another

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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

macOS

creative explorer

Community Expert

@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

Community Expert

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

Community Expert

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

Don't have a screenshot currently as I don't have access to that machine all the time. We looked in the folders you suggested, but nothing that isn't stock install is there. I don't really know where it's saved/how it's been saved. She's kind of accumulated a lot of stuff over the years, then had external help to transfer her stuff from one machine to the next. Now she'll go from a private computer to our corporate machine, which makes it a little harder to just shove everything over, since there should be some restrictions on admin privileges for end users etc.

The loaded Brushes, for example, would be in ~/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop 2025 Settings/Brushes.psp

(The same goes for other presets with the appropriate names.)

Those are the preferences files that are created when quitting Photoshop and contain the loaded Brushes in the Brushes Panel, even those that were created without ever saving them in an abr-file.

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