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August 26, 2021
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Photoshop 22.5 on Mac greyed out third party filters

  • August 26, 2021
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I have Mac OS and on Big Sur, I had all working this morning and faced disk fill up so restarted computer. After restart I am seeing Photoshop showed all third party filters including NIK, DXO, Topaz filters section greyed out and when I tried to open NIK from the supporting tools windows, it said that command currently not available.

 

Three of the imags attached for reference including the Adobe photoshop version.

 

Any help is appreciated!

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Correct answer J453

Thank you @J453  @Kevin Stohlmeyer , I think I narrowed down to something though still not sure what 🙂

 

I created a video to show in here, now if you look at video. I have two JPGs, one I have a screenshot of LR where I was trying to experiement with 2400mm Saturn and Jupiter shot (not goods shot but will be better soon 😄 ) and another one where I had a PSD file that I saved as JPG. Now when you look at it, the one that has LR screenshot, when I open in Photoshop, it shows all the third party filter and all active and I am able to click and it opens the third party plugin where as the one that I exported to JPG and when I tried to open that, all third party plugins get greyed out and when I click on the helper window, I get error that command not found. still not sure what this is, I think I am learning everyday soemthing new 😄 

 


Those filters apparently don't support CMYK. The second file you open is in CMYK. Convert to RGB and those filters should come alive.

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J453
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August 26, 2021

Those plug-ins are unsigned or became unsigned for some reason (security reasons by macOS). See "Plug-ins not found or cannot be verified" here on how to fix.

 

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/plug-ins-photoshop-troubleshooting.html 

 

You don't need to uninstall Photoshop.

 

    iCute Photography
    iCute PhotographyAuthor
    Known Participant
    August 27, 2021

    Thank you @J453 but the challenge that I had was that there was no change in system, it was working fine in the morning and later the same day it stopped working without any updates of either Mac OS or Adobe. Anyway for now I had to redo all to back in business 🙂 I have no clue what happened 😄 

    Kevin Stohlmeyer
    Community Expert
    Kevin StohlmeyerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 27, 2021

    What Mac OS are you running? Big Sur does forced automatic updates. 

    Also check your Creative Cloud app - do you have your preferences set to auto update your apps?

      iCute Photography
      iCute PhotographyAuthor
      Known Participant
      August 26, 2021

      Not sure what the root cause is but I had to uninstall and re-install entire adobe suite and then install the third party plugins and then all worked at the end. 😞

      Kevin Stohlmeyer
      Community Expert
      Kevin StohlmeyerCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      August 26, 2021

      You need to update your third party filters from the vendors sites. They do not automatically update with Photoshop. If they do not have a newer version, you may have to use the previous PS build until they release new updates.

        iCute Photography
        iCute PhotographyAuthor
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        August 26, 2021

        I hear but this was all fine till this morning and I didn't do any update of the photoshop either and just like that it went greyed without any alert and that is what I am puzzling with.

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