Eye Candy 7 — Windows 11

A good idea with the Cleaner Tool Ged.  I am currently in an exchange with Exposure Software support, but they have not had any constructive ideas so far.  I also think it is to do with having the Beta version installed. It might be as simple as it appearing above V23 — When I first ran the Eye Candy 7 installer it did show Photoshop Beta in the Host Selection window, but only the Beta version.  I ran it anyway, but Eye Candy did not appear in the Beta Filters list.

I think I'll pause the exchange with Exposure support.  Uninstall Photoshop and run the Cleaner Tool. Reinstall Photoshop 23.4 (but not the Beta version) and try the Eye Candy 7 installer again.

You know that thing when stuff annoys you, so you do something for the hell of it to sort of give the finger to the thing that was annoying you? (or is it just me?)  Anyway, I treated myself to Particleshop last night.  They had an offer that gave you a bunch of Brush Packs along with the plugin, so I gave myself some retail therapy.  Initial thoughts are that the affects are amazing, and way beyond what we can do with the Photoshop brush engine, but they only work inside the plugin's pop-up window, so AFAICT you don't have brush blend modes, you can't force straight lines with the shift key or constrain them to vertical and horizontal, and you can't stroke a path.  If you paint on a new layer you can't see what is behind it (just the transparency grid) but there is an option to commit just the brush strokes, so if you make a copy merged layer to paint on, you can save the new content and the layer contents disappears.  Early days, but I am noit regretting the purchase.

I'll let you (and Exposure Software) know if the cleaner tool trick works.

[EDIT]  It has just ocuurred to me that using the cleaner tool will mean I have to reinstall and activate my plugins.  The Filter Forge installer had the same issue as Eye Candy, so I wonder if your idea fixes that as well?