Photoshop 6 Doesn't Recognize Files

After downloading the Freepack3 collection of Frames filters, I double-clicked each of the three plugin files to install them in my Photoshop CS6 Plugins folder. With each double-click, Photoshop gave me a warning telling me that it "doesn't recognize this type of file."

Assuming that I'm not doing this correctly, please advise how to install Filter Forge plugins in Photoshop CS6.

(Hopefully Filter Forge developers will add a Help link to its pages that tell how to install Filter Forge filter plugins in a variety of applications. I wasn't able to locate such a hyperlink.)

Thanks, GMM, for your prompt e-reply. (BTW: I'm a Mac user; OS 10.7.5, using PS CS6.)

The three plug-in files are in the Distortions folder. They are:

* Filter Forge Freepack 4 - Distortions ppc.plugin

* Filter Forge Freepack 4 - Distortions universal x86.plugin

* Filter Forge Freepack 4 - Distortions universal.plugin


If users are to do something different to get Photoshop to recognize and activate the Filter Forge plugins, please tell us how we are to do that. It's not an intuitive exercise for me; and the site doesn't (appear) to give the Help steps needed.

Thank you.

Thanks, again, GMM.

I've entered the Terminal declaration; quit and restarted Photoshop CS6 twice; each time I saw nothing in the Filters submenu named Filter Forge.

What title should I look for? Where should I look for it? How do I activate Filter Forge in PS?

Warren

Hello, again, GMM. I've created and placed the alias file of the universal distortions plugin file in the PS6 Filters folder. I quit and retorted PS6 but do not see anything new in the drop-down submenus of the Filter menu.

Please tell me what FF file name I should look for and where it appears. It's possible that the plugin file has been loaded appropriately but I don't know how and where to activate it. Please tell me more.

Thanks.

As far as I can determine, it does. I can edit photos according to the various plugin effcts available; the presets work as expected; and I can save edited image files.

I want to be able to install Filter Forge as a Photoshop CS6 plugin; hopewfully, it won't be too hard to figre out what's needed to accomplish that.

Thanks again for following through with my request, GMM.

Warren

Hello, again, GMM:

Before I copy/paste the folder(s), please tell me where in PS6 I'll find the Filter Forge activation link. Will I find it in PS6's Filters menu? In the Filters submenu? Somewhere else?

As I mentioned on Monday. "It's possible that the plugin file has been loaded appropriately but I don't know how and where to activate it."

Thanks, GMM.

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Will I find it in PS6's Filters menu?

Yes, a new item should appear at the bottom of the Filter menu.
The path to the plugin file looks correct to me.

Have you tried installing a full FF version (not a freepack)?

You can also try the "preferences" menu in PS to choose the Filter Forge plugin folder to add...

Thanks, CFandM!

I appreciate your weighing in on this predicament. I followd your suggestion (done diffrently on a Mac) and it brought a smile to my face.

The good news: Finally, the Distortion plugin opened in PS6. I found it near the bottom of the Filters drop-down menu.

The bad news: When I repeated the process to add to that filter folder the FF Metals folder, I see only the Metals plugin from which to choose. ( ;- (

(See screen shot.)

For no apparent reason, PS6 stores only one additional plugin folder at a time. I tried again, carefully going through the Preferences process to add the FF Photo Effects folder. It added it but removed the previously added Metals pluging.

Might you know of a way to add more than one FF plugin to PS6?

Thanks!

Sorry to have duplicated my latest comments. I simply refreshed the page and it automatically sent the previous message.

Then in each folder place the actual plug-in for each version listed as the folders name.....Again I am in windows so yours will be a little different..

Yes whatever files are in that certain folder for the plugin..Copy those and paste them into the newly created folders.....

Yes that would be one folder and inside that folder will be a separate folder for each plug-in...This way nothing will be overwritten by placing plug-ins on top of each other....Photoshop will hopefully see these plug-ins and load all in that folder....

Glad to know your issue has been resolved.

Warren, freepacks are limited to a set of 7 fixed filters each – but they are completely free.
If you want to take advantage of 10,000+ library filters, including those 214 of CFandM, you can purchase a commercial version of Filter Forge.