Operation Manual

USING PHOTOSHOP

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Last updated 12/5/2011

Plug-ins

About plug-in modules

Plug-in modules are software programs developed by Adobe Systems and by other software developers in conjunction

with Adobe Systems to add features to Photoshop. A number of importing, exporting, and special-effects plug-ins

come with your program. They are automatically installed in folders inside the Photoshop Plug-ins folder.

You can select an additional Plug-ins folder for compatible plug-ins stored with another application. You can also

create a shortcut (Windows) or an alias (Mac

OS) for a plug-in stored in another folder on your system. You can then

add the shortcut or alias to the plug-ins folder and use that plug-in with Photoshop.

Once installed, plug-in modules appear as options in the Import or Export menu; as file formats in the Open, and

Save As

dialog boxes; or as filters in the Filter submenus. Photoshop can accommodate a large number of plug-ins. However,

if the list of installed plug-in modules becomes too long, Photoshop may not be able to display all the plug-ins in their

appropriate menus. If so, newly installed plug-ins appear in the Filter

> Other submenu.

Install a plug-in module

In Mac OS, you cannot run Photoshop in the Classic environment. Plug-ins originally intended to work on Mac OS 9

won’t appear.

❖ Do one of the following:

• To install an

• Adobe Systems

• plug-in module, use the plug-in installer, if provided. In Windows, you can also install or copy the module into the

appropriate Plug-ins folder in the Photoshop program folder. In Mac

OS, drag a copy of the module to the

appropriate Plug-Ins folder in the Photoshop program folder. Make sure that the files are uncompressed.

• To install a third-party plug-in module, follow the installation instructions that came with the plug-in module. If

you cannot run a third-party plug-in, it may require a legacy Photoshop serial number.

Select an additional plug-ins folder

1 Choose Edit > Preferences > Plug-ins (Windows) or choose Photoshop > Preferences > Plug-ins (Mac OS).

2 Select Additional Plug-ins Folder.

3 Click Choose, and select a folder or directory from the list. Make sure that you do not select a location inside the

Plug-ins folder. To display the contents of a folder, double-click the directory (Windows) or click Open (Mac

OS).

4 When you have highlighted the additional plug-ins folder, click OK (Windows) or Choose (Mac OS).

5 Restart Photoshop for the plug-ins to take effect.

Suppress the loading of plug-ins

❖ Add a tilde ~ character at the beginning of the plug-in name, folder, or directory. That file (or all files in the folder)

will be ignored by the application.

View information about installed plug-ins

❖ Do one of the following:

• (Windows) Choose Help > About Plug-in and choose a plug-in from the submenu.