There are 2 different kinds of presets in Alien Skin software, factory presets that come preinstalled for each program, and user created presets. A lot of customers want to be able to find their created presets so they can move it to a new computer or back them up before erasing their computer.

Your user created presets can be located in the following location provided that you installed them on your local disk (normally C drive)

Windows 7 computer

Local Disk >  Users > “Your user folder” > AppData > Roaming > Alien Skin > Associated Program

The AppData folder is a hidden folder so unless you have your computer set to show them, you won’t see the folder.

To show hidden files and folders you will need to do the following.

Open a windows explorer window by clicking your Start button > Computer (or My Computer)

Once Windows explorer is open you may need to hit the ALT key just to the left of your space bar to show the menu bar at the top

Once you click on the Folder Options then you will see the Folder Options dialog box.

Select the “Show hidden files and folders” option.

Once you click OK as shown above, just reopen your windows explorer by clicking again on your start button, then Computer (or My Computer). You should then be able to browse directly to your presets. 

Macintosh computer

On a Mac based computer, you will be looking for your user presets in your users home folder using the following path:

Macintosh HD > Users > Library > Application Support > Alien Skin > Program Name

You can copy the Alien Skin folder (where the arrow is pointing) to get all of your presets at one time.