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C0ppert0p
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November 23, 2025

The entire Plugin Panel is grteyed out in photoshop 2026

  • November 23, 2025
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I just installed 12 plugins from the Market place. (The installations went well, and Market place says that they are all installed).

I started up photoshop and saw the plugins under the plugin panel.

I shutdown Photoshop to work on something else but when I started it up again, the panel was greyed out.

Even the plug-in I had installed previously was greyed out.

Under settings/plugins all the options are checked. I am using RGB and 8 bit color, (on article said cmyk and 16 bit color would cause the panel to grey out)

also, Photoshop is installed in the default location, ( another article I read  suggested plugins had issues when phoshop was installed on an external SSD)

My system is an iMac 4 (Apple Silicon). The OS is Tahoe 26.1.

I'm really stuck at the moment. there are a bunch of layer mask plugins I need to use and none of them are availble...

Any help would be super helpful!

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    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 23, 2025

    Try resetting preferences and restart your computer. See screenshot.

     

    [Moderator moved from Using the Community to Photoshop.]

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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    C0ppert0pAuthor
    Participant
    November 24, 2025

    Thanks, for the suggestion but alas, the plug-in panel is still greyed out.

    I've installed earlier verions ofm photoshop too, but the result was the same, -the panel is not grey out, when I do the install. but as soon as I install a plug-in and run Photoshop, the panel becomes greyed out. It's as if the act of installing a plug-in is what is greying out the panel.

    I've an old laptop around, with an Intel version of Photoshop on it. I'll see if I have the same problem with it.

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    C0ppert0pAuthor
    Participant
    December 13, 2025

    I confirned that all my plugins work when I use any version of photoshop, when I am using an Intel Mac running Tahoe 26.1

    As far as know, plugins don't work on any version of photoshop if it is running on a Mac using Apple Silicon.

    Photoshop's solution of using Rossetta does not help.

    Even plugins that specifically say they work with Apple Silicon, don't work

    (DXO PURE RAW 5 for instance). 

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    C0ppert0pAuthor
    Participant
    November 23, 2025

    also. when I ran Photoshop using Rosetta, it was still grey out. I think that was the last posted solution to an issue very similiar to mine

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