The Photoshop Productivity Series: Customizing Photoshop

Creating a Preferences Backup

As a failsafe, make a backup copy of your preferences and store it somewhere outside of Photoshop. Then, when any quirky behavior starts, you can replace the existing preferences with your backup copy. Sounds easy enough, but the challenge is remembering to make a backup copy of your preferences in the first place...when everything is working well!

Finding the preferences can be a bit of a challenge: you’re looking for a file called Adobe Photoshop XX Prefs.psp, with XX being your version number. On the Mac, the Library that contains this file is hidden by default and can be accessed in the Finder by holding down Option and going to the Go menu.

You’ll find the preferences in this path:

• Mac: Users/[user name]/Library/Preferences/Adobe ...