How to import filters Photoshop and Pixelmator

Well, you can´t export filters from Filter Forge (FF), and you can´t use any FF filter outside of FF, so you can´t importa any FF filter into Photoshop directly.

The only way available to use FF filters inside Photoshop is through the FF plugin (this should have been installed when you installed Filter Forge)and use the FF interfac application to import the images from photoshop to FF and the send theback to Photoshop.

If FF is not installed in Photoshop, just copy the right and corresponding .8bf version of FF into your Photoshop filters folder.

Also you can see these other threads links here below:

Can FF be used directly from photoshop?

Would be possible to use filter of FF in Photoshop as included inside?


About Pixelmator, you can try to copy the filter forge plugin (.8bf) to the Pixelmator and see if it works and if Pixelmator could be compatible

You can see also this tutorial article -->How to Install and Use Plugins in Pixelmator

Have you installed Filter Forge in your MAC ?

The plugin should have been installed already automatically inside Photoshop, have you checked if Filter Forge is included in the filters list ?

If not installed, you could try to install FF again.

And if what you want is to install in Pixelmator, I am sorry but I do not have a MAC so I do not know how to do it manually.

The FF filters ARE NOT in the Photoshop filter list, ONLY the Filter Forge plugin, so you must activate the FF plugin, and when the FF window opens from photoshop you will be able to see the FF filters.

The filters CAN Never be inside Photoshop because they are not compatible, and as said before ONLY work inside Filter forge

If you are going to use a filter that needs a base image you MUST have this image ready BEFORE activating the FF plugin

It's imposible to import new plug-in, jus I need to know which file I need to choose for that

Ow, its write, that for MAC is just Adobe photoshop CS, but not elements

O.K. I'll try to do that again and then write you.
Thanks for your time

FF works also on Photoshop Elements 9 on MAC (why would not work?), if you have also CS4 it must work for sure, unless there some strange thing in your MacOS, or are you doing something wrong that does not let FF install correctly.

As far as I know is NOT because you are using a MAC that it can´t install in Elements 9

Which version of Filter Forge is it ?

The new one (3), just bought

But anyway thank you very much for your help. Now I know my problem, and I will look for photoshop cs

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Rod_D wrote: You should only need copy and paste the Filter Forge.8bf plugin into Photoshops plugins folder.

The problem is that he doesn´t now WHERE is the Filter Forge .8bf on MAC, and I do not know either, so this is why I have recommended and suggested to install again the filter forge and so it will be installed automatically