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If you use Photoshop on Windows, here’s a handy tip for managing actions, scripts, gradients, styles and other presets. In Photoshop's presets folders, add shortcuts to the folders where you have saved your actions etc. When Photoshop is opened again, your presets will then be added to Photoshop palette menus. |
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To explain, Photoshop’s program files includes a subfolder called Presets with subfolders containing the actions, scripts etc that ship with the package. These don’t load when you open Photoshop, but they are available when you click the palette menus (the triangles at their top right). Some users save their own/downloaded actions etc in these folders. This has a couple of disadvantages. It’s messy to store your tools amongst the program files. Will you remember to backup folders in program files? Maybe not. What if you uninstall or re-install Photoshop? You’ll delete your actions etc. So it’s better to store your actions etc elsewhere, where you save other "work" files – that might be in My Documents or on another drive. I’m going to use actions as the example, but this works for other
presets. I save my actions and downloaded ones in a folder on my D
drive - D:\Photography\Photoshop Actions. So I put a shortcut to
that folder in the program files folder C:\Program
Files\Adobe\Photoshop CS\Presets\Photoshop Actions. When Photoshop
opens, it includes these D drive’s actions with the list of default
actions. I can save actions in as many folders as I want, and have
one shortcut to each. I do the same for scripts and styles, and it
works for other preset features too. Usually the palette’s menu will
list your presets, though your scripts will display under File >
Scripts (no need to load them). Here for example, Photoshop's
actions palette shows built-in actions plus those I've
written/downloaded: |
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