Best workflow practice:
Move all non-Adobe/3rd-party Photoshop-compatible plugins into a separate folder. Name it something like (duhhhh) 3rdPartyPSFilters. This folder can be anywhere on your hard drive, but it makes sense to keep it in your Photoshop folder.
Install new version of Photoshop. Standard installation will install Photoshop and native filters into one folder.
Immediately open your Photoshop preferences after you launch it for the first time and point to this "3rdPartyPSFilters" folder as your secondary plugins folder.
Ron,
Just as Phosphor describes, there is a way to avoid re-installing your plug-ins for each version of Photoshop. However, there do still remain a few that are either version-specific to Photoshop or which place registry keys that are unique to each version of Photoshop they are used with. So, in those latter cases, a re-install remains needed. The best approach is follow Phosphor’s advice and then only reinstall those plug-ins that still fail to work.
Regards,
Daryl
BINGO! THANX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey guys, I’m new to the forums and to photoshop 7. I recently purchased PS 7 and I just downloaded some plugins today but I cannot figure out how to install them in PS to where I can use them. The file unziped but they will not open in PS. Is there somewhere I should unzip them to or what???
Thanks in advance!!!
Hi Linda,
If the plugins weren’t provided with an installer, then you most likely just need to move the files inside of your Adobe/Photoshop 7.0/Plug-ins directory. I’d suggest creating a folder inside of that path to place them in, so that you keep them organized as one set of plug-ins apart from other branded sets you might eventually acquire.
Hope that helps,
Daryl
Thanks Daryl, but I tried that and they still won’t open in photoshop. Another thing is, there is no plug in directory in the photoshop folder so I tried to just creat a folder and named it Plug-ins and still didn’t work… Am I doing something wrong or is there a trick to getting them to open?
Thanks again…
Linda,
With a proper PS installation, a Plug-ins folder should exist. If not, I’d reinstall PS. You may need to go back to the source of your downloaded plug-ins to look for instructions on how to install them. Are you sure the files are plug-ins and not Actions? The difference would be that plug-ins have file extensions such as .8ba and .8bf, while actions are a .atn extension.
Daryl
Daryl
I got it figure out… (YAY) When I installed PS it created 2 folders, 1 named Photoshop and 1 named Adobe. The Plug-ins directory was in Adobe while I kept looking in Photoshop… Didn’t see the Adobe folder till after I posted that last message… Its working great now!!!
Thanks a lot for your help!!!
