Since then, developers of other image applications have had limited or no access to it anymore, so they can't support newer host features. The support for plugins was more uniform up until 2002, when Adobe restricted access to the Photoshop SDK containing the specifications for Photoshop plugins, and made the developer license more prohibitive. Photoshop fully supports all available plugin types certain hosts, like Photoshop Elements, support most of them, while the majority of hosts support filter plugins only and many of them don't even support all available filter plugins. Much support is limited to the Microsoft Windows platform and. There are several dozens more plugin hosts, including little known products like Chasys Draw IES, free editors like GIMP (with certain add-ons) and viewers like IrfanView.
Many commercial graphics applications support Photoshop-compatible plugins - Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro ,Photoshop Elements, PhotoImpact, Corel PhotoPaint, and Adobe Fireworks are the most renowned ones. "Host applications or plugin hosts are graphics applications that are capable of running plugins. But for MANY others, a non Adobe editor can make a great deal of sense. Sometimes, for some people, Photoshop is the only practical choice.
To me, people should be making their decisions based on how well the software allows them to complete task "xyz".
That logic says, "in order to complete task 'xyz', I want to be able to press the following buttons and make the following mouse clicks." It is my contention that selecting your editor based on how well it supports plugins is backwards logic. I will concede, however, that this Adobe caused shift in the licensing arrangements does require non Photoshop users to take a little extra care before paying money for a plugin. If you want to use non 8bf plugins, your only real choice is Photoshop.įortunately, the major plugin software publishers, in order to maximize their sales, pretty much restrict themselves working within the 8bf plugin standards, and using the other plugin standards only when such a plugin uses the Photoshop layers functionality, or is planned from the start to be marketed exclusively to Photoshop users for some reason.īut there is no shortage of 8bf plugins available to do just about any task one might want to do. Basically, ACDSee has as much plug-incompatibility as any other non Photoshop graphics program.
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