Comments When you first launch PSCS6, it will ask if you if you want to migrate your presets from a previous version (assuming that you have been working with a previous version). You can choose to migrate your presets at that time, or you can choose to migrate them later using Edit > Presets > Migrate Presets. For those of you who want to know what Photoshop is doing under the hood when you choose to Migrate Presets, Photoshop grabs the entire Presets folder in (User) Library > Application Support > Adobe > Adobe Photoshop CS6 > Presets, and uses file extensions to organize them into buckets. This means that you can have any folder structure for your presets as long as everything is contained in the Presets folder.
In addition, you can import and export presets to distribute by selecting Edit > Presets > Export/Import Presets. You can select all or Export/Import a subset of your presets. This should make it easier to keep presets the same when working with multiple computers.
What about migrating actions from CS5.1 to CS6?
5.1 is a previous version – so the post applies.
This whole migration concept is useless. It transferred nothing of importance. NONE of my actions, preferences, workspaces or plugins moved over. Not even workspaces? It took me a while to set these up in CS5 and I want the same environment. How about color settings?
What does CS6 mean by “migrate” exactly? Is it supposed to update previous version actions to match current commands or does it just repopulate the presets file/folder list?
When I chose Migrate, the message was “No Presets Found” so I used the Import function to bring the old actions into the CS6 preset folder, chose Migrate again and got the same message. What’s up?
It makes them available to load from the presets manager. It doesn’t blow away anything that’s currently there.