Plugin type | Windows extension | Mac type code |
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Automation | .8li, .8ly | 8LIZ |
Color picker | .8bc | 8BCM |
Export | .8be | 8BEM |
Extension | .8bx | 8BXM |
File format | .8bi | 8BIF |
Filter | .8bf | 8BFM |
General | .8bp | 8BPI |
Import | .8ba | 8BAM |
Parser* | .8by | 8BYM |
Selection* | .8bs | 8BSM |
Year | Event |
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1991 | Adobe first introduces filters and support for third-party Photoshop-compatible plugins in Photoshop 2.0. The same year, Aldus presents Aldus Gallery Effects - a set of filters including Emboss, Mosaic, Charcoal and other effects. When Aldus and Adobe merge in 1996, Gallery Effects will be embedded into Photoshop.[citation needed] |
1992 | Kai Krause releases one of the most renowned plugins of the 1990s -- Kai's Power Tools (a.k.a. KPT). Many artists of the time consider it a must-have plugin set for Photoshop.[7] It features several advanced warp and deformation effects, as well as support for bump maps and 3D graphics formats (in KPT SceneBuilder). |
1994 | Joe Ternasky releases Filter Factory, a plugin allowing users to create their own filters using an internal programming language resembling C and compile them as separate plugins. It uses programmable formulas to process the red, green and blue channels of each pixel of the image. However, the fact that it requires considerable programming skills is viewed by many as a serious drawback.[8] |
1994 | Alien Skin Software, founded a year earlier, creates the first drop shadow filter for Photoshop. The same year, they also release the Black Box filter set, later renamed to Eye Candy, which becomes an all-time favorite among Photoshop users.[9] |
1994 | Auto FX Software is founded. In the subsequent years they release a couple of much-noticed Photoshop plugins and automated effects software products. Photo/Graphic Edges is one of the common image enhancement tools used by graphic artists of the time.[10] |
1997 | Alex Hunter, inspired by KPT but dissatisfied with the limitations of the Filter Factory, presents FilterMeister -- 'a 'bigger and better' Filter Factory'. It is said to be much easier to use than Filter Factory, and many of today's free and commercial plugins are made in FilterMeister.[11] |
2007 | Filter Forge Inc. brings procedural texturing to Photoshop by releasing Filter Forge, a plugin allowing users to build custom filters without any programming. In Filter Forge, filters are assembled in a visual node-based environment.[12] |
2008 | YouSendIt Inc. enables delivering files across different users/computers from within Photoshop. |
2008 | Adobe introduces their first Flash extension panel SDK for better integration of plugins with the UI. Anastasiy Safari builds[13] MagicPicker, the first and well noticed color picking extension suite for tablets based on it[14]. |