Photoshop plugins, what are they?
It is easy to install plugins in Photoshop. Adobe Photoshop installed with a folder named Plug-Ins in the Photoshop file. All you have to do is place the plugins in the Plug-Ins folder. When you launch Photoshop, the Filters menu will show your new plugins. If you run Photoshop, when you installed the new plugins, you need to close and restart Photoshop to see the new plugins. In fact, you do not have to install the plugin in the Plug-Ins folder of Photoshop. Follow these instructions to install plugins in the folder that you want:
1. First create the alternative plugins where ever you like and what you want to call back ..
2. Launch Photoshop.
3. Open the Edit menu. Move the mouse to the bottom of the Edit menu, click Preferences. This will load the Preferences submenu.
4. In Preferences go plug-ins or plug-ins and hard work, depending on your version of Photoshop.
5. Additional Enable Plug-Ins folder by checking the box.
6. Now locate the replacement plugins folder by clicking the Browse button.
As simple as that! You now have an alternative plugins where you can store all your personal plugins folder. Close the preferences and exit Photoshop. Plugins in your alternate location will be listed at the bottom of the Filter menu next time you launch Photoshop.
In general, there are two types of plugins: 1. Plugins for photo editing. 2. Plugins that add effects. Editing plugins tend to manipulate what is already in the picture without adding anything new. Effects plugins add the other, well, the effects to the image. Examples of editing could be sharpness, exposure and saturation. Effects examples could be lens flare, bokeh or raster. The distinction is not always so easy. Correction lens is a touch or effect, for example? If you correct barrel or pincushion is a touch, but if you use it to create the appearance of a fish-eye lens, it is a fact.
The history goes back to Photoshop plugins v 2, 1991, when support for third party plugins was introduced. In 1994, Joe released Ternasky Filter Factory to write third-party plugins. In 1997, Alex Hunter published Meister filter as an improvement Filter Factory plugins and many today are written Filter Meister. Ten years after Filter Meister was released, a new approach for the development of filters was released as Filter Forge. Filter Forge is not built standalone plugins, but only the plugins that work in Filter Forge. Filter Meister plugins are currently only for 32-bit Photoshop, but the developer, Alex Hunter, promises 64bit support will be published shortly in 2013. Filter Meister is only available for the Windows platform .....
