Skip to main content
Inspiring
October 28, 2023
Answered

Wondering where the Gradients and Styles folders have gone for presets that ship with Photoshop

  • October 28, 2023
  • 3 replies
  • 3244 views

The Presets directory for presets that ship with Photoshop is still located in the same place on Mac:  Macintosh HD/Applications/Adobe Photoshop 2024/Presets  

 

The Actions and Brushes folders are still in that location, but the Gradients and Styles folders are strangely absent.  A lot of gradients and presets come with Photoshop, but they appear to no longer be resident in the program.  Are they now being downloaded from Adobe's cloud when a major update is installed?  I'm using these particular assets more, so I like to know where they are on the back end.

 

 

 

 

 

This topic has been closed for replies.
Correct answer Jeff Arola

Since Adobe revamped some of the presets panels, they moved many of the default presets to the Required folder inside the Adobe Photoshop 2024.app and they are named, for example, Default Gradients and Legacy Gradients..

Right click on the Adobe Photoshop 2024.app, click Show Package Contents, then look in the Contents>Required folder.

 

If you want to add your own presets put them in

Macintosh HD/Users/UserName/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop 2024/Presets

3 replies

Jeff Arola
Community Expert
Jeff ArolaCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
October 29, 2023

Since Adobe revamped some of the presets panels, they moved many of the default presets to the Required folder inside the Adobe Photoshop 2024.app and they are named, for example, Default Gradients and Legacy Gradients..

Right click on the Adobe Photoshop 2024.app, click Show Package Contents, then look in the Contents>Required folder.

 

If you want to add your own presets put them in

Macintosh HD/Users/UserName/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop 2024/Presets

Inspiring
October 30, 2023

Thank you, Jeff, that's exactly what I wanted to know.  The legacy files for all the presets seem to be in that Required folder.    I've updated my notes with the new location.

Trevor.Dennis
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 29, 2023

If you turn on the relevant panels under the Window menu, you can add the legacy presets from there.

 

For instance

 

If you want to find them on the drive

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

 

 

Inspiring
October 28, 2023

Correction:  The Styles folder is there, but there is only one ASL file in the folder.