Adobe’s flagship Photoshop received a full version update, which makes the current version, Photoshop CC 2015-5, packed with lots of great features and a performance boost. There’s a lot to be excited about—except their warning about 3rd party plug-ins. Adobe made it clear with a warning message:
VERY IMPORTANT – Photoshop CC 2015.5 is a full version upgrade. As such, you will need to install your 3rd party plug-ins for them to work with CC 2015.5.
Reinstalling numerous plugins is a very tedious task. Adobe did note they have been working with 3rd party plug-in developers to use a shared Creative Cloud location for plug-ins. This will allow updated versions of their plug-ins to load in future versions of Photoshop CC (e.g., CC 2016/2017) without having to re-install. That’s great news for the future, but what about now? Luckily, there’s a quick solution that works with most plug-ins.
Simple Solution: Copy your Photoshop Plug-ins folder
Navigate to your Adobe folder and look for your previous version of Photoshop—or select your current version, if you haven’t upgraded yet.
Windows users can find the Adobe folder inside the Program Files folder.
Mac users can find the Adobe folder inside the Applications folder
Copy the the contents of the plug-ins folder and paste them into the plug-ins folder of Photoshop CC 2015-5.
Now, when you launch Photoshop CC 2015-5, most of your 3rd party plug-ins are back!
Extra tip:
The only plug-in that was a little tricky was onOne. I copied all files that started with ON from inside the previous version folder and pasted them into the current version. When I launched the plug-in from inside Photoshop CC 2015-5, onOne performed a quick update. You can try this or just wait for the official update. The company is really good at getting updates out fast.
Thank you for that tip, I had just updated mine, and was wondering where my plug-ins had gone, great timing! :-)
A very timely tip and a very easy fix – thanks!
Great read…. Thanks for the tips!
This did not work for the flaming pear flood plugin. At a loss on how to get it to work! Tried everything!
That plugin may not be updated to work with newer Photoshop. Check their site for compatibility.
I have downloaded the latest version of flood and added it to the plugin folder. Still not working, all I get when opening CC is a pop up box saying “One or more plug-ins are currently not available on your system. For details see help>system info”
I have looked every where to find how to fix this, even on the flood plugin site, nothing is working. Not even in the help section of the site and there contact button does not work either!
So at a loss as to why it won’t work.
While i like Flaming Pear… they are a SMALL company. I’m guessing there products aren’t updated to work with newer PS.
I have sorted the issue and its working now. I just deleted the folders and re-added one at a time until I saw flood was added into filters and the pop up box was gone.
My previously installed plugins disappeared and I found a much easier fix. Go to preferences->presets and uncheck the box to store presets in the catalogue. Everything came back to normal!
thank you!!
My previously installed plugins disappeared and I found a much easier fix. Go to preferences->presets and uncheck the box to store presets in the catalogue. Everything came back to normal!
thank you!!
This did not work for the flaming pear flood plugin. At a loss on how to get it to work! Tried everything!
That plugin may not be updated to work with newer Photoshop. Check their site for compatibility.
I have downloaded the latest version of flood and added it to the plugin folder. Still not working, all I get when opening CC is a pop up box saying “One or more plug-ins are currently not available on your system. For details see help>system info”
I have looked every where to find how to fix this, even on the flood plugin site, nothing is working. Not even in the help section of the site and there contact button does not work either!
So at a loss as to why it won’t work.
While i like Flaming Pear… they are a SMALL company. I’m guessing there products aren’t updated to work with newer PS.
I have sorted the issue and its working now. I just deleted the folders and re-added one at a time until I saw flood was added into filters and the pop up box was gone.
Great read…. Thanks for the tips!
A very timely tip and a very easy fix – thanks!
Thank you for that tip, I had just updated mine, and was wondering where my plug-ins had gone, great timing! :-)