These steps apply to all of our currently available products. Before installing your plug-ins, please shut down your image editor.

If your image editor is listed in the Host Selection window of our installer, then we urge you to just select it and click Next. Choosing the Custom Install option is much more difficult and it is easy to do it wrong. However, if you need to control the location of your plug-in folder then here is how.

If you choose Custom Install, in most cases, you will need to choose whether to install the 32-bit or 64-bit version of the plug-in. This has nothing to do with whether your operating system is 32-bit or 64-bit! You need this to match your image editor. Most image editors, including Photoshop Elements, are 32-bit, so choose 32-bit. Only choose 64-bit if you are running Photoshop CS4 or later in 64-bit mode.

Now you need to choose the folder to install the plug-in into. This is different for each image editor and the typical location is buried in a painfully deep folder. If you installed your host applications into specific folders, these locations will be different. If you install into this location, the instructions below do not apply.  Here, are some examples.

Mac - Macintosh HD > Applications > Adobe Photoshop CS5 > Plug-ins

Mac - Macintosh HD > Applications > Adobe Photoshop CS6 > Plug-ins

Windows - 64-bit - C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Plug-ins\

Windows 32-bit - C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6\Plug-ins

Since you decided to go custom, let's choose an easier location. Create and choose a simple place like C:\Plug-ins on Windows or perhaps Applications:Plug-ins on Macintosh. Make a note of this folder because you will need it later.

After you finish installing the plug-in, run your image editor. We need to tell the image editor where to look for extra plug-ins.

For Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, on Windows go to the menu Edit > Preferences > Plug-ins and on Macintosh go to Photoshop > Preferences > Plug-ins. Turn on Additional Plug-Ins Folder and choose the folder you installed the plug-in into.

Shut down your image editor. Start it again. Now you should see our product in the Filter or Effects menu.