CS plugin problem

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grayedout
Jul 15, 2004
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The third party plugins are grayed out in the Filter menu of PS CS. How can they be enabled? Used to work fine in PS 7. Thanks.

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drjohnruss
Jul 15, 2004
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The third party plugins are grayed out in the Filter menu of PS CS. How can they be enabled? Used to work fine in PS 7. Thanks.

the menu entries are grayed out if the image mode is not one that the plugin supports (e.g., indexed color for many plugins, or 16 bit depth). If the plugin worked under PS7 for a given image, it will work under CS.
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grayedout
Jul 16, 2004
DrJohnRuss wrote:
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The third party plugins are grayed out in the Filter menu of PS CS. How can they be enabled? Used to work fine in PS 7. Thanks.

the menu entries are grayed out if the image mode is not one that the plugin supports (e.g., indexed color for many plugins, or 16 bit depth). If the plugin worked under PS7 for a given image, it will work under CS.

Thanks. If it is due to the 8 vs 16 bit depth (most likely), is there a trick to work around it?
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drjohnruss
Jul 16, 2004
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Thanks. If it is due to the 8 vs 16 bit depth (most likely), is there a trick to work around it?

No (except of course reducing the image to 8 bit mode). If the plugin wasn’t written to handle 16 bit depth, it can’t do it.
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Pjotr Wedersteers
Jul 17, 2004
DrJohnRuss wrote:
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Thanks. If it is due to the 8 vs 16 bit depth (most likely), is there a trick to work around it?

No (except of course reducing the image to 8 bit mode). If the plugin wasn’t written to handle 16 bit depth, it can’t do it.

And that can be achieved by choosing Image-Mode-8 bits per channel. Or by selecting 8 bits under Depth in the raw importer in CS.
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edjh
Jul 17, 2004
DrJohnRuss wrote:
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Thanks. If it is due to the 8 vs 16 bit depth (most likely), is there a trick to work around it?

No (except of course reducing the image to 8 bit mode). If the plugin wasn’t written to handle 16 bit depth, it can’t do it.

There are various workarounds you can use to edit in 16 bit. Here are a couple:

http://www.schewephoto.com/workshop/pdfs/16bit_Editing.pdf http://www.drjohnruss.com/downloads/16bitLayerWFscreen.pdf


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drjohnruss
Jul 17, 2004
edjh wrote:

There are various workarounds you can use to edit in 16 bit. Here are acouple:
http://www.schewephoto.com/workshop/pdfs/16bit_Editing.pdf http://www.drjohnruss.com/downloads/16bitLayerWFscreen.pdf

That’s true, but unrelated to the original question. He had a plugin that he wanted to use on a 16 bit image, and it wasn’t written to handle 16 bits. Only solutions to that are to reduce the image bit depth or get a newer version of the plugin, if it exists.
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vizrosplugins
Jul 18, 2004
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The third party plugins are grayed out in the Filter menu of PS CS. How can they be enabled? Used to work fine in PS 7. Thanks.

Use the DependancyWalker(http://www.dependancyWalker.com) to check the plug-in dlls. It may corrupted.

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Vizros – Realistic 3D page curl plug-ins and more
Demo at http://www.vizros.com/gallery.html

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