Photoshop Plugin fails

After I downloaded the new version of Filter Forge 9 the Photoshop plugin returns a "Program Error" message and doesn't work. My workflow needs Filter Forge to run from within Photoshop as it did in the past but I've not been successful in making it work. I'm running Photoshop 21.2.2 on Mac OS 10.15.6 and the plug-in is in the plug-in folder. Other plugins that I use, such as the Nik suite and Portrait Pro still work fine as plug ins.

Thanks for the thought. The plug in worked perfectly with the current Photoshop until I updated to the latest version of Filter Forge 9 which was necessary in order to download new filters.

I tried FF version 10 and the problem persists. All was good till the second version of FF version 9 at which point it won't work from within Photoshop.

Today is October 5th and why am I seeing error ? Is there any way to fix ?

After months there is still no fix for this and Photoshop has been updated four times during the problem. When are the Filter Forge folks going to address this issue that ruins an effective work flow. And yes, the problem persists in FF 10.

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Solution to Photoshop Plug-in fail on Mac. This is copied from user M_L on another of this forum's posts. I tried this using Mac OS Catalina, FF 9, and PS 2020 and PS 2021 and it worked for me (Anvil Hammer). _______ Shut down Photoshop In Finder, open: Applications > Filter Forge 9 Make an alias of 'Filter Forge 9 universal.plugin' In another Finder window, open: Applications > Adobe Photoshop 2021 > Plug-ins Copy alias to the Photoshop Plug-ins folder (do not actually copy the plugin - it must be an alias!) ← Will ask you for admin privs

Hey Anvil Hammer, Thanks buddy. it is working now. Amazing tips. Untrustworthy FilterForge people just want the money. No service for their own issue. You save a lot of money.! thanks.

Not sure how useful this will be for power users, but this worked for me... I really haven’t had any luck so far using FF Beta 10 with the newest Photoshop release. I am on Mac OS Big Sur, 11.0.1 and using Photoshop 2021, 22.0.1 and FF Beta 10, 10.004 and have tried using the Alias trick without success. I did, however, develop a workaround that uses copy/paste that allows me to work, independent of any issues with any software. It’s not as slick as using FF as a plug-in, but when it’s simply not working, you’ve got to try something else.

1 - open both programs (Photoshop and FF)
2 - go to the layer you want to manipulate, select all, then copy the Photoshop layer
3 - paste the Photoshop layer into FF
4 - manipulate the image in FF
5 - when you like the result, go to the FF menu bar at the top and choose
View - Preview Size - Actual
wait for the preview to finish generating
6 - when it’s finished, go to the FF menu bar and choose
Edit - Copy Image
7 - go to Photoshop and paste the new image
(Photoshop will generate a new layer for the pasted image)

Like I say, it’s not as slick as using FF as a plug-in, but this method has allowed me to keep working with both packages.