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jngrnnll Posts: 3	I've read all the information in here I can find and tried all of the suggestions I could find but seems no matter what I do, I cannot get filter forge to show up as a plug in. I'm running photoshop cs4 on windows 7-64bit. I've tried to copy the plug in folder into the plug in folder of photoshop. I've tried a clean install. It worked on my old computer but that was windows xp. I'm at a loss here, please help.
	Posted: December 14, 2009 8:50 am	Details E-Mail
Kraellin Kraellin Posts: 12749 Filters: 99	the official position on this is that FF will not work as a plugin in a 64 bit system. however, at least on a vista 64 bit system, FF installed in the program files (x86) folder, which is the compatibility mode on windows, i think, and it then ran just fine as a 32 bit application, including as a plugin. i dont have win7 yet, but it shldnt be that different. did you try installing it on the c:\ drive or did you put it on a different drive? it might only work getting it into the program files (x86) folder if you allow it to install on c:\. just a thought. If wishes were horses... there'd be a whole lot of horse crap to clean up! Craig
	Posted: December 14, 2009 9:05 am	Details E-Mail
jngrnnll Posts: 3	I think I understood what you said lol. In any case, it led me to this solution and I'm going to post it so if anyone else who is easily confused by computers encounters the problem it might help. Photoshop was installed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe folder. Installation put it there by default. After reading your post I looked closer and found that I had two folders which contained a Photoshop.exe The two paths were C:\Program Files(x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4 (64-bit) and C:\Program Files(x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4 I believe Filter Forge only "saw" the 64-bit version and, in turn, didn't work. I then went to C:\ Program Files(x86)\Filter Forge and copied the "Plugin" folder from there. Then pasted it to C:\Program Files(x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\Plug-ins. When I opened the PS program I had to use the exe found in the C:\Program Files(x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4 folder and not the 64-bit version. That worked. I now can use Filter Forge from within Photoshop, although I guess I'm not running a 64-bit version of PS and from what I understand, that's like taking a step backward. Either way, I'm happy for now but the Filter Forge people should really consider making their program compatible with the 64-bit version, shouldn't they?
	Posted: December 16, 2009 11:47 am	Details E-Mail
Kraellin Kraellin Posts: 12749 Filters: 99	interesting. so, did you install cs4 twice or did the normal install of cs4 on a 64 bit system just automatically do that? that seems odd if it did and you might want to alert adobe. anyways, glad you got it going and yeah, i'd like a 64 bit version also. If wishes were horses... there'd be a whole lot of horse crap to clean up! Craig
	Posted: December 17, 2009 8:38 am	Details E-Mail
Chris 020 Posts: 61	I have the same problem ..but i wonder if your not mistaken with the Paths you show in your post..?? I have these : C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4 C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4 (64 Bit) notice one is a x86 map and one is normal... So to me it seems you have 2 x86 "aka" compatible folders.. I can get it to work in the 32bit version but not in the 64bit version no matter what i copy or do.. Chris BC3D
	Posted: December 26, 2009 2:12 pm	Details E-Mail

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