User-folders for Scripts/Plugins/Color Profiles

[Dave_Wortley]

Currently for Photoshop users on Windows to install Scripts and Plugins and ICC profiles the user requires admin permissions to copy files in.  This means any pipeline tool we may which would copy scripts from a repository has to run with admin priviledges as well...  This keeps leading to issues for us, and this leads to user/company plugins and scripts needing to be installed on each and every version of Photoshop. 

I would like to see one of these 2 options to solve this...

Option 1;

Add these folders to search paths for Photoshop to use for Plugins/Scripts, anything in these folders would take precidence over what's in the c:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop 202x\Presets\Scripts etc...

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Adobe\Photoshop\Plugins

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Adobe\Photoshop\Scripts

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Adobe\Color\ICC\ - (would add to what is in  C:\windows\system32\spool\drivers\color)

or

C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents\Adobe\Photoshop\Plugins

C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents\Adobe\Photoshop\Scripts

C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents\Adobe\Photoshop\Color\ICC

a version number could also be inserted into the path... ie.

C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents\Adobe\Photoshop\25\Plugins

but our preference would be to not...

Option 2;

Add these Environmental Variables to Photoshop to allow us to point to a repository of scripts we have for our company.

ADOBE_PHOTOSHOP_PRESETS_SCRIPTS

ADOBE_PHOTOSHOP_PRESETS_PLUGINS

ADOBE_PHOTOSHOP_COLOR_ICC

and/or have version specific ones

ADOBE_PHOTOSHOP_2025_PRESETS_SCRIPTS

ADOBE_PHOTOSHOP_2025_PRESETS_PLUGINS

ADOBE_PHOTOSHOP_2025_COLOR_ICC

[Dave_Wortley]

Actually this would be the best place to make load from... I tried seeing if it would pick it up but it wouldn't...

C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2025\Presets\Scripts

C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2025\Plug-ins

[DaveSawyer]

UXP plugins should be installed via UPIA. It should also be possible to use GPO to distribute and install plugins via a powershell script to run UPIA (https://blog.developer.adobe.com/en/publish/2022/03/how-to-install-uxp-plugins-using-command-line-to...). ICC color spaces also need to be installed into Windows. Hopefully GPO also can handle this... As for scripts. Starting with pre-release this Friday you can load them from the directory you requested. This directory is writeable at the user level as opposed to the program files directory which requires Admin to write. To prevent some kind of escalation attack, you must set a regkey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Photoshop\<version>\allowUserCode (DWORD, 1=enabled). It requires Admin to make that regkey, but you only need to do it once and regkeys are easy to push to users via GPO.