Photoshop plug-ins appear in the Filter menu in the Photoshop Filter section. With Illustrator, you can install either plug-ins developed for Illustrator or most Photoshop plug-ins. Here are a few instances of the plug-ins you can purchase for Photoshop:Īdd borders, frames, or edges around pictures with Photo/Graphic EdgesĬreate 3D Bevels, Drop Shadows, and other effects with Eye Candyįor the details of where to find these plug-ins, see the Appendix, "Creative Suite Resources." Plug-ins in Illustrator More can be purchased from third parties. Some can be freely downloaded from Adobe Studio Exchange. There are hundreds of plug-ins available for Photoshop. These "optional" plug-ins are on the CS2 Std Content install CD, in the Goodies > Photoshop CS2 > Optional Plug-ins folder. Photoshop supports some specialized or legacy file formats, but their plug-ins are not installed automatically an example is the new JPEG 2000 format. You can then add the shortcut or alias to the plug-ins folder and use that plug-in with Photoshop. You can also create an alias (Mac) or a shortcut (Windows) for a plug-in stored in another folder on your system. You can select an additional Plug-ins folder for compatible plug-ins stored with another application (such as Corel Painter and Adobe Fireworks). Once installed, Photoshop plug-in modules appear as options in the Import or Export menu as file formats in the Open, Save As, and Export Original (ImageReady) dialog boxes or as filters in the Filter submenus. Examples include many of the filters and effects we describe in Chapter 4, "Pixels and Raster Formats," or the Automate commands we describe in the "Batch and Automate Commands in Photoshop" section above. They are found in subfolders in the Plug-ins folder. Photoshop ships with many importing, exporting, and special-effects plug-ins that are totally integrated into the application. When John Knoll helped his brother Thomas Knoll develop Photoshop, he wrote many of the plug-ins that shipped with the application (see the "Photoshop Revolutionizes Image Editing" sidebar in Chapter 4, "Pixels and Raster Formats").Īdobe maintained this open policy when it bought Photoshop, allowing many small developers to add functionality to Photoshop through plug-insa process that continues until this day. One of the things that contributed to Photoshop's early success was its support for third-party filters.
(In many cases, plug-ins will be nested inside other folders within the Plug-ins folder.) Because of InDesign's unique application structure (see "Plug-ins in InDesign"), we'll discuss it separately. Otherwise, just manually remove it from the Plug-ins folder.
If you need to remove a plug-in, use the uninstaller if one is provided. In Acrobat, choose Acrobat > About Adobe Plug-ins (Mac) or Help > About Adobe Plug-ins (Windows). To get information about a plug-in, choose About Plug-Ins from the application menu (Mac) or Help > About Plug-Ins (Windows). Getting Information About Installed Plug-ins To install a third-party plug-in, follow the installation instructions that came with the plug-in. Most third-party plug-ins come with an installer. Restart the application for the plug-in to take effect. Otherwise, drag a copy of the plug-in to the Plug-ins folder inside the application folder (Acrobat is an exception see "Plug-ins in Acrobat" below). To install an Adobe Systems plug-in, use the installer if one is provided. (GoLive doesn't have a plug-in architecture like the other CS2 applications, and we don't cover it in this section.) Installing and Uninstalling Plug-ins Third-party developers have greatly expanded the functionality of CS2 applications by developing plug-ins for functions that are too narrow be included in the applicationor just by adding features the application doesn't include yet. In fact, in the CS2 applications, many functions are performed by plug-ins (as described in the sections below). Luckily, you can download or buy plug-ins to add these features. In Photoshop, you might want a cool new filter to create a special effect. For example, in InDesign, you might want to work with table styles, but discover that this feature is not in the application. Your application may not do everything you want.
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