Manually backing up important Photoshop Brushes and Actions.įor some people, their brushes and actions are their bread and butter, Let’s keep them safe. To load them in, navigate to your folder and choose Import Presets. I usually do 2 copies, one to my Creative Cloud account, where I created a folder named Photoshop and a second copy to dropbox. Highlight each one and choose the arrow to add them to the “Presets to export” column. To export (save) You will see your current presets. Basically all the things that used to be in preset manager. This is where most of your presets will be managed, including layer styles, gradients, grids, workspaces and more. Just choose the menu option and it will do all the work for you.

If there are other versions of Photoshop installed on your system, this will copy the presets over into your new version. Don’t save them locally, because if your hard drive crashes, you will lose them all. Save these in a folder you create in your Creative Cloud account, or on dropbox. Select all the presets and choose Save set This is where all the presets used to live.

Photoshop allows you to have more than one version installed at the same time.īefore you update Photoshop (or reset preferences), its a good idea to back up all your settings and presets.Ĭhoose Edit>Presets. You will see a list of other, earlier versions of Photoshop that you can install. You can go back to earlier versions of most of the CC apps.Ĭlick the ellipses to the right of Open on Photoshop. When its updates, you will see that it says “open” this will launch the newest version of Photoshop.ĭowngrading to older versions of Photoshop Choose Check for updates.ĬC will check the Creative Cloud server for up-to-the second updates.Ĭlick on update, next to your app. You will see the individual app updates, don’t do anything yet.Ĭlick and hold the 3 eclipses on the top-right. The Adobe Creative Cloud App will launch.Ĭlick on Updates. You could also click the CC app icon in the top right on mac, or the bottom Right on Windows. For best results, restart your computer first.Ĭhoose Help>Updates on either Mac or Windows. All updates are done through Creative Cloud. To do this, we launch the Creative Cloud app.

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