Skip to main content
T
TooLzor
Known Participant
June 3, 2025
Question

State of UXP for Photoshop

  • June 3, 2025
  • 1 reply
  • 492 views

I'm just about to delve back into making a plugin for PS and while I have a lot of code and boilerplate for CEP plugins I wouldn't mind looking at UXP if it's in an actual usable state now

 

Last I looked at it was a couple years ago and there was issues with even being able to handle saving out images to directories without getting permission beforehand/each time - has this actually been solved now or do I need to stick with CEP...

For context, this would be yet another texture exporter for studio use - as we need to export textures and also create other files for our own internal uses.

1 reply

C
Ciccillotto
Inspiring
June 3, 2025

I speak from personal experience. In two years some progress has been made, but now it seems to have stopped. I don't know whether to advise you to continue with cep, also because it is not known when adobe will stop supporting cep. If you are someone who sells plugins my thought is to migrate to uxp. Now I don't know what nature your plugin will be, if you have a video I'll take a look and I can help you in your decision.

    T
    TooLzorAuthor
    Known Participant
    June 3, 2025

    Not selling things,  haha been down that road. This is purely for in studio texture export stuff. 

    When I last looked it wasn't possible or wasn't easy to setup a plugin to save images out to any folder without users allowing it or selecting it which is exactly what I don't want users to have to do haha. 

     

    C
    Ciccillotto
    Inspiring
    June 7, 2025

    The folder select is really the thing I want to avoid. We have specific locations relative to the source files that outputs should go to. It doesn't require user intervention, this is the problem with uxp I guess...


    What you ask for is possible to do by creating tokens for each folder stored.

    Terms & ConditionsAccessibility statement
    Using the community Terms of use Privacy Cookie preferences Do not sell or share my personal information ad choicesAdChoices