1. Simply find the plug-in on your hard drive and drag it to the Trash/Recycle Bin. Here's where to find the plug-in on Macintosh and on Windows.
2. Quit and restart Photoshop.
What is a plug-in filter?
A plug-in adds a new feature to a program. Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, and some other popular paint software can accept plug-ins. Flaming Pear makes plug-ins that work with your paint software. They create complex effects too difficult to do by hand.
Plug-ins are useless by themselves; they can only work together with a host program like Photoshop.
Plug-ins that directly change pictures this way are called "filters." There are other types of plug-ins too; they do things like read and write unusual file formats, or talk to a scanner.
Yes! You can download the software again for free anytime here . The plug-ins know that you’re already registered.
Do the plug-ins work with Photoshop 2021 & Apple Silicon?
Yes, they now work natively on Apple Silicon. They also still work with 64-bit Intel-based Macs.
What are the system requirements?
macOS 10.9 “Mavericks” or later Photoshop CC2015 or later
or
Windows Vista or later Photoshop CS2 or later
The plug-in is greyed out in the Filters menu.
The plugins only work on RGB-mode images. If you are using indexed color or CMYK color, just convert the image to RGB mode. Use Image > Mode > RGB Color.
If that doesn't help:
Make sure the active layer is visible.
Make sure the active layer is not locked. Make sure the active layer is not text or vectors.
Make sure that the selected area is not completely transparent. If it is, paint in some neutral color first.
The plug-in doesn’t appear at all in the Filters menu.
Here are some things to check:
Photoshop has not yet been restarted.
No image is open.
You have an old version of the plug-in. Replace it with the current version from here.
You have a Windows computer, but downloaded the Mac version, or vice versa.
You downloaded the correct thing but didn't expand open the .zip file / open the .dmg file.
You have two copies of Photoshop on your computer. The plug-in is correctly installed in one, but you've launched the other.
You have two different versions of the same plug-in installed. One of them is old and incompatible; Photoshop is trying to use that one and ignoring the good one.
Only some of the plugins appear in Photoshop's menus. Where are the rest?
If you have several dozen plugins installed, Photoshop may reorganize them in the Filter menu. Any plugins that don't appear where you expect them will probably be under the Other... submenu.
The result is blank – all black or all white.
Here are some things to check:
Your starting image is blank, and most plug-ins cannot make a picture from nothing. Start with a picture that shows something.
The sliders are set to extreme values that obliterate the image. Click the dice a few times.
The layer mask is active, and it’s featureless. Go to the Layers palette and switch out of the mask and into the actual image.
Error: “Could not complete your request because Photoshop does not recognize this type of file.”
You may have double-clicked on the plug-in, or tried opening it with File > Open. Those are only for opening pictures. It fails because a plug-in isn’t a picture.
Instead, you need to ‘install’ the plug-in, restart Photoshop, and then look in Photoshop’s menus under Filter > Flaming Pear.
