I have quite a few Plugins installed but they are not all showing up when I try to apply a filter. Do I have too many? Is there a limit?

Which product are you using?

Christine

I'm using Photoshop CS2.

Plug-ins are strange and wonderful beasts. I don't know of any limit to the number of plug-ins that you can have, but having tons of them can slow down bootup time for Photoshop.

A couple things to be aware of when installing plug-ins. Some are pretty straight forwared, just drag and drop into the Plug-ins folder. Other must be installed with the software package installer that puts stuff where it needs to go for you. Also, when downloading freebies and plug-ins from internet sites, make sure they are intended for your operating system. PC plug-ins won't work on a Mac and visa-versa. Some older plugins no longer work with newer versions of Photoshop. Some plug-ins do not show up in the normal Filter's menu, but in the File>automate menu instead (Genuine Fractals being one that I know of.)

I removed a lot of plugins to see if that would make a different, but it didn't. I still only get plugins with names starting with A - N, I can't scroll past "N". This happened once before, but I can't remember the fix! I've moved many plugins to a "plugin" folder outside of the regular PHotoshop plugin folder. Any other suggestions?

Thanks!!

Nadine

I have quite a few Plugins installed but they are not all showing up when I try to apply a filter. Do I have too many? Is there a limit?


How many is "many"?
Maybe the plugin that is after the last one you can see in the list, is fawlty, making CS2 stop listing after that one?

Nadia... Mac or PC?

Some folks do store their plug-ins outside of the Photoshop folder, but I don't so can't help you there.

this may be way too obvious, but i'll mention it just to eliminate it. the scrolling of the filter/plugin list is not automatic. you have to press the tiny little up and down arrows at the bottom or top of the list to make things scroll. i have a lot of plugins also and tend to forget that little arrow thing also.

oh, and i believe you have to have an image loaded before you can scroll, also. otherwise, it's all just ghosted.

Yes there is a limit, but off hand I can't remember the number. 80 comes to mind but not sure.

Peter