3 Replies Latest reply: May 6, 2010 6:27 AM by John--G RSS

    How do you move brushes/actions from CS4 to CS5?

    ac361 Community Member

      Hi. I've been using Photoshop CS4 Extended and have a ton of actions, styles, brushes, and other custom settings that I'd like to now import into CS5 Extended. Is there a tool for doing this? If not, how do you manually accomplish this task? Thanks.

        • 1. Re: How do you move brushes/actions from CS4 to CS5?
          gener7 Community Member

          It depends which folder you assigned them to,but as an example: Program Files > Adobe > Photoshop CS4 > Presets > Brushes

           

          Select your custom brush sets using the Shift arrow keys or Ctrl-click with your mouse to select the sets that are scattered.

           

          Ctrl-C to copy

           

          Open the CS5 presets > Brushes folder from there and use Ctrl - v to paste the sets into that folder.

           

          The best suggestion I have heard so far is to keep a seperate Presets folder for custom stuff in the Adobe folder and simply load them from the Brushes, Actions and Styles menu.

           

          That way you can get at them no matter the version of CS.

          • 2. Re: How do you move brushes/actions from CS4 to CS5?
            ac361 Community Member

            Thanks, gener7. I wonder why there's not a utility that will import these various settings. If I had the time, I'd write one as an extension to Photoshop.

            • 3. Re: How do you move brushes/actions from CS4 to CS5?
              John--G

              I will second that!  I wish there was a simple utility to save/export these settings and bring them into the new version. Likewise with keyboard shortcuts, I have not been successful in saving keyboard shortcuts from one version to other.