Actions

It's simple to move actions from one version of Photoshop to anotherjust save them from Photoshop CS and load them into Photoshop CS2. Note: You don't actually save individual actions, but rather you save sets of actions (which is why it is important to save your custom actions into a separate set when you record them). Here's how:

Step One.

In the Actions palette, click on the set you'd like to save and then use the palette's flyout menu to choose Save Actions. In the resulting dialog, name the file and save it in your Custom Stuff folder. If you come across actions that are not in a separate set but are in the Default Actions set, you can move an action into a different folder by clicking-and-dragging it, or copy the action by holding down Option (PC: Alt) as you click-and-drag it. Then you'll be able to combine those actions as a set without saving a bunch of other actions you don't really want.

Step Two.

After you've installed CS2, just return to the Actions palette's flyout menu, choose Load Actions, and then select the actions you saved in your Custom Stuff folder. An important note about actions: Although this procedure will allow you to load previously recorded actions into Photoshop CS2, this does not guarantee that they will work. Since some operations have changed, particularly in the Layers palette, there is a chance that some steps in actions will not function the way they are intended. This means that after you have loaded the actions into Photoshop CS2, you need to be prepared to do some testing to see if the actions need to be "tweaked" in any way to accommodate the changes in CS2.