wienerman wrote:I recently upgraded to Photoshop CS4 and notice that the plug-ins I've purchased are no longer appearing as available. Most significantly is the OnOne plugin suite.
I am not on using 64-bit Photoshop.
Does anyone know what the trick is here?
Thanks!
When the installer installed CS4, it created a whole new Plug-Ins folder inside the CS4 folder. But it left your CS3 program and folders right where they were. So to get the plug=ins to work in CS4 you have two options. The better option is to open the CS3 folder, find the Plug-ins folder and copy all the old plug-ins to the CS4 Plug-ins folder. Be sure to copy rather than move them if you still want CS3 to be able to use them. What I suggest is open each plug-in folder side by side so you can compare. Then only copy the ones from the CS3 folder that aren't already in the CS4 folder.
Another option, though not one I consider too good, is open CS4, go to Preferences and under the Plug-ins section is a checkbox where you can choose an additional plug-ins folder. The reason I don't suggest that is you'll forget you did it and sometime down the road you'll decide you don't want CS3 any longer and trash it, along with those plug-ins.
The Additional Plug-ins folder does have a good benefit to it if you want to do it. If you store all your plug-ins in a folder separate from Photoshop somewhere and choose that folder as an additional plug-ins folder, when you do future upgrades to CS5 or 6 or whatever, and turn on the additional plug-ins folder you'll never have to move things around again.