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donbarrum
donbarrum
Inspiring
June 18, 2014
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Photoshop (2014) Extensions greyed out, extension manager not recognizing photoshop 2014

  • June 18, 2014
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Im unable to migrate my plugins fomr photoshop cc to cc 2014. Extension manager doesnt seem to show the 2014 versions and also the extensions menu is greyed out inside photoshop, so Im unable to pick anything in there.

anyone knows whats going on ?

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      Paula Shin
      Paula Shin
      Inspiring
      June 22, 2014

      I'll just stick with PS CC 2013 for so many plugins i love haven't been converted yet (specially coolorous)

      But thanks to everyone who posted here to help clarify the problems.

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      Phoxford
      Participant
      June 22, 2014

      "Extensions" is greyed out until you have a compatible extension installed. Extensions can appear installed in the Extensions Manager even when they are not compatible with CC(2014) and the "Extensions" menu will still be greyed out. If you install the new Kuler extension (for example) the "Extensions" menu item will be available, but will not show older (Flash based?) extensions. Messy and confusing implementation not assisted by individual extensions not being marked as compatible or not. Big BAD for Adobe on this one.

        helensotiriadis
        helensotiriadis
        Participating Frequently
        June 22, 2014

        '"Extensions" is greyed out until you have a compatible extension installed. Extensions can appear installed in the Extensions Manager even when they are not compatible with CC(2014) and the "Extensions" menu will still be greyed out. If you install the new Kuler extension (for example) the "Extensions" menu item will be available, but will not show older (Flash based?) extensions. Messy and confusing implementation not assisted by individual extensions not being marked as compatible or not. Big BAD for Adobe on this one.'

        that cleared it up. thanks.

        anthonyhague
        anthonyhague
        Known Participant
        June 23, 2014

        ^ and vice versa.  Ive tried to install adons for CC and they just won't register in Extensions Manager CC as being compatible.

        J
        joelucio_
        Participating Frequently
        June 20, 2014

        I don't know if anyone has mentioned this and I don't want to be stating the obvious for some but for those of you who have the Extensions menu option greyed out, do you have a document open? The Extensions menu along with other menu options will be greyed out until you have an open document. I just wanted to put that out there.

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        Sergey Kritskiy
        Inspiring
        June 20, 2014

        Brian, that's not true. Window menu is never greyed out regardless of documents.

        J
        joelucio_
        Participating Frequently
        June 20, 2014

        Hmmmm...Weird, it was greyed out for me until I opened a document, then I was able to activate GuideGuide. Sorry about that. Carry on.

        donbarrum
        donbarrumAuthor
        Inspiring
        June 19, 2014

        I got extension menu to appear by installing some of the add-ons, which you access by going into help menu and add-ons. Important! : Make sure that in the creative Cloud app Preferences/Files/ sync is turned ON! If not it will look like you are installing but nothing happens. Turn it on and then install an add-on...then most likely extensions will appear.

        But I gotta say though, that adobe has an Add-on feature and an Extension manager, which are working with eachother and sometimes doesnt play along. Its ALL really confuzing and not very user friendly. Even some of my extensions got transfered and seems as they are installed in the extension manager but still not appearing inside photoshop cc 2014 (so it doesnt even say that they aren't supported).

        And I don´t understand why Adobe have disabled the flash extensions, which I assume is the reason why we cant use extensions such as Magic Picker, Cooloru, Cut & Slice me & Layrs. I hope this have brought Photoshop some great optimisations (though I haven´t noticed any), if not, I don´t understand why at least adobe couldn't let us choose to have flash plugins or not (it could be a enable feature under preferences)....There´s more than enough other old features in Photoshop that never disappear, which probably aren´t in much use.... Why remove one of the features that actually gives use a better Photoshop experience?? -Then at least Adobe should give us an equalent color picker and a layer batch renaming tool, and the other stuff people need for daily use.

        If anyone has got coolorus or magic picker to work in Photoshop cc 2014, please let us know!! It´s one of the extensions I truly miss the most.

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          Sergey Kritskiy
          Inspiring
          June 19, 2014

          Thanks, after I turned on Sync in Creative Cloud at least Kuler appeared in Extensions.

          Concerning Coolorus/Magic Picker. Coolorus team wrote on their twitter 'We’ll be releasing a public statement about Coolorus in the new CC 2014 in the next 48h. For now we suggest to not upgrade to latest CC'. Actually, I would prefer a proper version rather that statement, but I wonder what are they going to say. Did this html fever avoid them?

          Anyway, I prefer Magic Picker. Anastasiy (MP's author) said that the html version of the panel is almost ready and will be available in 12-24h after CC 2014 update.

          donbarrum
          donbarrumAuthor
          Inspiring
          June 19, 2014

          thanks for the info. I talked to the Coolorus guys, they said it wont be available until september, so no luck there.

          But if Magic Picker will work, then at least I have that Magic picker is as good I guess, just doesnt look as snazzy...though thats not the important part

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          Sergey Kritskiy
          Inspiring
          June 19, 2014

          Does anyone know where do I need to place html extension that weren't packed in zxp to work? On CC on Mac they were at

          /Users/kritskiy/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CEPServiceManager4/extensions/

          But I guess the folder has been changed, none of my extensions are listed in CC 2014

          helensotiriadis
          helensotiriadis
          Participating Frequently
          June 19, 2014

          I'm having the same problem. I uninstalled and reinstalled Extension Manager, it runs as 7.2.0.74 and I can see my extensions on the list, but it's grayed out within Photoshop.

          davidc1815
          davidc1815
          Legend
          June 19, 2014

          Ditto...(for MagikPicker)

          J
          John K. Shaw
          Participating Frequently
          June 19, 2014

          This worked for me:

          • Uninstall Extension Manager CC with the "Remove Preferences" box checked.
          • Install Extension Manager from the CC desktop app.  This should install version 7.2
          • Install the extensions.

          My thanks to Tony Kuyper for this solution.  I highly recommend his Luminosity Masking action, and the Action Panel for CC and 2014.  See this page: Tony Kuyper Photography—TKActions panel.

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          Unavowed
          Inspiring
          June 19, 2014

          been trying to install Tony Kuyper panel all day do I have to have the .zxp file as I have the XML one.

          THanks

          Vallen
          Vallen
          Participant
          June 19, 2014

          For those looking for Coolorus or Magik Picker, check the new Color panel in Photoshop. Not as good as the two extensions, but will work till extensions are updated.

          Peter James Zielinski
          Peter James Zielinski
          Known Participant
          June 19, 2014

          Having the same problem...can't access onOne, NIK, or Topaz suites anymore. 

          Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

            CR Henderson
            CR Henderson
            Participating Frequently
            June 19, 2014

            A reinstall of Nik worked.  A reinstall of onOne 8.5 references CC 2014 but I don't see a way to activate the panel. The onOne modules are shown in the About Plug-in box and available via File->Automate.

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            LMOF
            Participant
            June 23, 2014

            OnOne already aware of it. See their blog. They are getting a solution for it. In the meantime only acessible throught AUTOMATE

            davidc1815
            davidc1815
            Legend
            June 19, 2014

            I am trying to install the extension "MagicPicker" in CC2014.  I have reinstalled extension manager.  When I install MagicPicker I get the above warning message.

            Can anyone please translate this message and tell me if I just have to wait for MagicPicker to come up with an extension that works in CC 2014?  Thanks.

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