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Monday, August 9, 2010

How to import custom doc sizes from Photoshop CS4 to CS5

I know a lot of people make custom document size presets in Photoshop and rely on them to create new projects. Here's how to import them across versions of Photoshop in Mac OS X.

First locate the older version X's "New Doc Sizes.psp" file in "~/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CSx Settings/". Open the "New Doc Sizes.psp" file in Text Edit as plain text (don't turn on the Rich Text feature). Select all of the presets with Command+A then press Command+C to copy.

Go to the newer version Y's "New Doc Sizes.psp" file in "~/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CSy Settings/". Open the "New Doc Sizes.psp" file in Text Edit as plain text (don't turn on the Rich Text feature). Select all with Command+A then press Command+P to paste. Press Command+S to save. Then quit out of Text Edit with Command+Q.

Open up Photoshop CSy (the newer version) and voila! You have your old file sizes!

In this instance I imported from CS4 to CS5 and it worked! :) CS4 was CSx and CS5 was CSy.