Plugins Preferences : Photoshop Tutorials

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Plugins are small programs that are built specifically to work with a certain aspect a program that you’re using. There are a variety of filters and visual effects that are designed to work inside Photoshop the plugins tab inside the preferences panel.

Inside the preferences panel you decide how Photoshop handles the various plugins so in order to get this panel we come up here for on a Macintosh go down to the Photoshop menu highlight preferences. And then click on plugins run a PC this will be found in the Edit menu keyboard shortcuts menus and preferences will be right here underneath menus. Or we can pick control K then we come over here the plugins menu.

So let’s talk about plugins now as I said before plugins are small programs that are designed to work with larger programs usually it at some sort of small functionality like the HUD color picker. Or I may be allowed some certain filters that aren’t necessarily natively available in Photoshop.

If some independent programmer decides he wants is like a gamma filter something like that he can program one and Photoshop allows you to add these plugins that you download off the internet into Photoshop so that you can use these different filters in the program as your work. So what are our options the first thing is the additional plugins folder now click on that and you simply choose a folder in this case I don’t necessarily have a plugins folder ready for you. But let’s say we did plugins there it is it’s on my desktop and that’s for me to save all the plugins eventually so house he choose now Photoshop every time it opens is gonna go to right here to the plugins folder that I just created and its gonna search for any kind of the plugins extension panels these will control how Photoshop interacts with the plugins.

The first one allow extensions to connect to the internet if you have a plugin that connects to the internet for any reason this is where you go to allow or disallow it. I’m not really sure why an extension would have to connect to the plugin but maybe sometimes it connects to the plugin site gives you more presets for the plugin. I don’t know there’s a couple different reasons and you can decide here whether or not you like to allow that right below that is little extension panels. Usually I leave this checked only because if I’m using plugins I want them to load every time I start Photoshop.

If you don’t do this sometimes you have to load the manually some plugins you can’t load manually  so just leave that one checked on and then Show CES live in the Application Bar well this is a personal preference it really doesn’t matter to me either way. I don’t use CS Live all that much just yet because it’s basically a brand new function so I have incorporated anything in CS live in my workflow with the sole exception Adobe story. But that’s kinda outside the room a Photoshop so anyway just choose for yourself whether or not you want that show that’s all for the plugins panel. As long as we’re talking about plugins let’s see if we can go find some Cancellara this I’m gonna bring over a browser window is your mouth a little bit here okay we’re going to just type in Photoshop plugins.

Here we go the first thing the plugin site resources for Adobe Photoshop years 12 plugins. Okay we even have a little legend year new is obviously new this means that it’s available for the Mac the Windows logo is available for Windows and then they have a little rating system here. Then we scroll down we’ve got some web designs and patterns and textures painting and drawing 3D which is really interesting image in format importing from this website with a bunch little plug ins here that.

We can scroll down and you see we’v got some Photoshop 13 pixels apply snow Mira chat or facts we’ve got to Osteria Graham really be filter that’s interesting. So you can see there’s a much different plugins right here on the first sight that we found on Yahoo. You’ve used two wheeler beringer whichever search engine you prefer but this is the easiest way to get plugins. We want to download plugin galaxy here got a whole bunch a different effects but it’s got three stars compatible with Mac or Windows.

So here we go is the new version scroll down how do we get this and much much more right over here on the left we’ve got download click on that which these plugins would you like to download plugin galaxy. Alright what we’re gonna do this right now because this requires that we throw in our email. But I’m sure there’s some other side on the internet here we can get that with doesn’t require email and essentially that’s legitimate you get a couple different special effects. Maybe some great star wipes drop shadows that sort of thing and anyway there you have it the plugins menu and a quick way to get plugins and oh that’s basically it for this for this panel.