FF is not only a Photoshop Plugin. I suggest a change in Marketing

Is really FF ONLY a photoshop Plugin ?

Of course that the answer is surely NO, as it is ALSO a standalone application AND is ALSO a plugin for other compatible hosts and NOT only for Photoshop

The right and well done definition is put in the Wikipedia Filter Forge

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Filter Forge is a standalone application and plugin for Adobe Photoshop and compatible 8bf plugin hosts that allows users to apply programmable image processing filters and to define them with a visual node-based filter editor.

WHY I MADE THIS THREAD

I am making this thread to suggest a change in the Marketing of FF as I think that possibly any person that could see a banner advertising Filter Forge or some other way of advertising it will think this same thing that is only posible to use it IF you have Photoshop.


What happens with other people that could have other compatible hosts that are not Photoshop and could still use FF as plugin?

And considering that now Photoshop is NOT for sell anymore and is ONLY available by subscription as showed here, many people that still do not know FF yet, could miss the oportunity to know more about this awesome software because they may think that is ONLY for photoshop as you can see in the advertising I have found below

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StevieJ have suggested a change in homepage on this thread and I think that is NOT only on the homepage, is needed to change also everywhere that FF is advertised and in all the marketing of this company.

I use most of the time FF as standalone and only a very few times as photoshop plugin

Sorry, that I still do not understand and do not know why Vladimir and the Filter Forge team want to promote and show FF as mainly a Photoshop plugin and can´t know their reasons to do it, from my point of view this is something wrong and perhaps they may be loosing some possible sales from persons that could try or buy this and do not do it because think is only for photoshop.

Would you click for knowing more information on a link that shows in Google "Photoshop Plugin to Create Your Own Filters" if you do not have Photoshop?

HOMEPAGE SHOWS FF AS A PHOTOSHOP ONLY SOFTWARE

As StevieJ said in the main FF website homepage at the top you can see

A plugin for Adobe Photoshop that allows you to build your own filters.

And there is NO information anywhere else in the homepage that FF CAN be used also as a standalone

ON THE MAIN FEATURES PAGE OF FF WEBSITE

I also do not understand WHY FF Inc. insist on showing FF as JUST a photoshop plugin

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On the surface, Filter Forge is JUST a Photoshop plugin

This text on the Quote above is the first thing you read on the Features page of FF website so reading this I would believe that JUST means that it ONLY works as a photoshop plugin.

ONLY reaching the very end of the long features page is put

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Filter Forge can work as a Photoshop plugin or a standalone application.

Does anybody need to read and view the whole features page to be able to reach nearly the end and discover that is ALSO a standalone application?

Why do not put this same text AT THE BEGINNING of the page ?

Is there any reason that FF Inc. does not want that people know that this is also a standalone application?

ONLY ON DOWNLOAD PAGE APPEARS SOMETHING
In the third text that appears at the beginning

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Can be used either in the plugin or standalone mode

And also in buy page buried low in the comparison features table

AND WHAT APPEARS IN THE FF WEBSITE MAY BE COPIED TO OTHER WEBSITE PROMOTING OR REVIEWING FILTER FORGE

For example in this Yur Digital review

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Skybase Yeah... I actually never use FF as a plugin either.

Yes, me too, well I can´t say never, but 95% of the time I use it as standalone, at least until now.

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lol now when did SpaceRay become the marketing advisor

Well, I am not the marketing advisor but I want the best for FF and want that it gets even more popular and people buy it more and I do not think that advertising it as only a Photoshop plugin will help.