Where is the "Adjust Variations" option in Photoshop CS6?

[Guest]

Hi all,

I often use the Image>Adjust Variations option in Photoshop but do not see the option in Photoshop CS6. I know we are still only in the BETA stage but I am still curious. I hope it is not going to be dropped. I like to use it for quick fixes on small portions of the image every now and again:)

Thank you in advance for your help,

Christine

[MissNetra]

Photo Filter function is nothing like Variations. Photo Filter has also been included in previous versions up to CS2 which I still have. And very happy I do as well as other versions of this software CS4 included...still available and working great on my PC. Adobe is so lame for removing these as they were very popular and useful. Same with the pattern maker.

[spiders_here]

YOU CAN USE VARIATIONS IN ANY VERSION, you just need to use a plug-in.

Simply download the file from the link, (Variations.8BF file), place is in "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2015\Required\Plug-Ins\Filters "

Idk who uploaded it, or whether it's legal or not, but [it is not legal; link removed by moderator] here is the link I downloaded it from.

Its a few kB file.

I pasted the url, it automatically generated a link.

If the link above doesn't work, copy the following to notepad, Replace every * \ *   with * / *

p.s.  -   you don't need to create an account on Dropbox, find an option to download anyway on the page.

[RonnieNelis]

spiders.here; i managed to keep it working for nearly all versions, but now i've updated (more or less by accident) to the latest version, CC 2015.5.1, but I can't get it to work anymore. There's an error message when loading Photoshop now (regarding the variations.8bf file) and when clicking the feature in Photoshop (it does appear) it says "Disk Error" and does not do anything. My disk is not broken  

Any suggestions to get it working again / does it still work somewhere else in this version ? Thanks!

[jackal242]

On a Mac that directory is :
/Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS6/Adobe Photoshop CS6.app/Contents/Required/Plug-Ins/Filters

And I copied over your Variations.8BF from your drop box into that location and restarted Photoshop CS6 and it did NOT work.

[Jeff Arola]

The Variations.8BF file posted above is a Windows photoshop plugin.

Macs use different plugin coding, so the two are not interchangeable.

[hieul55017494]

i have the same error, sbdy help please.

[Jeff Arola]

Unfortunately variations doesn't seem to work in photoshop cc 2015.5 or 2017, so i suspect there is nothing to be done on the user end and it was a change by adobe in the photoshop code that caused the plugin to quit working.

[Stephen Marsh]

I think that it is telling that it is 2021 and no "enterprising" developer has written a replacement plug-in or standalone application that recreates variations.