Franzis Plug-in to Elements

Hi Sepiana,

I am still struggling with the Franzis Add-ons.
I eventually made contact again, thanks to your link.

I followed their instructions but Unfortunately I still am unable to install the plug-ins into my Elements 2018.
I now never use them because of the disruption to my workflow. This is a pity because they are good.
This a copy of their last e-mail to me and my reply;

"Dear Nigel,

then take the latest plugins from the program installation folder, no matter which year it says. Copy the plugins into PSE plugins folder manually.

Should be working.

Best regards,
Your FRANZIS Team"

My reply with screen shots.

Hi,

I download the Add-in for Denoise#2 Professional ( see attached screen shot “de-Noise Add-in” )
I copy and paste in Elements 2018 Plugin Folder
I go to Editor>Files>Automation Tools and I get this error message ( See attached screen shot “plug-in’ )

I check the Automation Tools menu and there is no deNoise?
What am I doing wrong?





This has now been going on for over two years.

What makes it more of a mystery is that there is no sign of Zoom or Elements+, which are both operating add-ins in the plug-in folder.

Possibly I am not using the correct Elements plug-in folder?
Could you possibly help?

Regards

Popcorn.

Hi again Sepians,

This must rank as one of the most frustrating tasks I have ever tried to perform.
This has taken 2 years to date!!!

I have downloaded the plug-ins as per Franzis instructions.
Into the correct folder as per your instructions ( see Elements 2018 path attached )
I have rebooted and opened Elements 2018 Editor.
I open Editor>Files>Automation Tools and I get this error message ( See attached screen shot “One or more plug-ins not available " see attached.
I open Help > System info and I get this window ( see attached "Help System info " )

This seems to suggest that I have a problem in Elements 2018?

Regards

Popcorn

According to that bottom screenshot, I think the problem is that you have the plug-ins in sub-folders instead of directly in the plug-ins folder.

If I understand, Photozoom does work for you; notice that the Photozoom plug-ins are directly in the plug-is folder and not in a sub-folder.

>>> On EDIT: Also, recently, I had trouble myself getting some of their plug-ins to work.

As it turned out, they had two packages that differed very slightly in name; I tried the second package and everything went to working.

I just had a closer look at my plug-ins folder and had to resort to the magnifying glass to confirm what I was seeing.

It may have no bearing on the issue, but this is what I am seeing.

All of my MANY plug-ins that are accessible via the Filter menu are 8BF files; I am now thinking that the "F" means Filter.

My Franzis plug-ins that are accessed via the File > Export menu are not 8BF, but 8BE; therefore, "E" probably means Export.

You may need to find the 8BE files before it will work; OR, and I am sure you already looked, check your Filter menu and see if they show up there.

The Filter menu plug-ins all have only a single 8BF file and the Export plug-ins have only a single 8BE file.


Another big difference I experience between Filter menu plug-ins and File > Export plug-ins is this:
When I use a Filter menu plug-in, the plug-in immediately opens, does it's thing, I click Okay, and it either applies it's effect to the existing selected layer, or creates a new layer with the effect applied; compared to Export plug-ins, the Filter plug-ins do their task pretty much seamlessly, without much intervention on my part.
In contrast, the Export plug-ins will open the program (if it is not already open) with my chosen file/layer loaded and ready to go. --- What one would expect, but does not happen, would be for that program's window to then show up front and center; it does not; in fact, one would thing nothing had happened; however, when I mouse down to the program icon on the task-bar, there is my image layer loaded and ready.
I then do my thing in the plug-in program and, instead of clicking Okay (like I do in a Filter plug-in), I click "Open in External Program".
At this point, Elements comes front and center with the image from the plug-in loaded --- NOT as a new layer on top of my image, but as a completely different image file that I must then drag on top of my image.


Just as an experiment, temporarily remove the PhotoZoom 8BF and 8LI files, leaving only the 8BE, and see if it still works as an export from Elements; I have a suspicion that the 8LI is possibly a Lightroom plug-in.
I also now suspect that, instead of 8BF files, you are going to need 8BE files before it will work.

Popcorn, I am sure that with perseverance you can succeed. Sepiana and Buckskin have given good advice. As long as the Frantzis plug ins are compatible with PSE 2018 they should work.

I have checked my system for Sharpen projects.

SHARPENProjects_PH7_x64.8be and SHARPENProjects_PH7_x64.8bf have been copied to the path "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 2020\Plug-Ins".

They work fine. They can be accessed from Filter/Frantzis/Sharpen projects. Or File/Export/Sharpen Projects.

I only ever use the Filter menu option.

Kind regards
Chris

Have you tried here for the plug-ins ? Click your choice to jump to that projects support downloads.

www.projects-software.com/support

Since the plug-ins package you got is not working, and providing you are certain you got the correct ones, maybe it would be worth your time to try some that are specified for other versions.

They did not have anything for Elements 7; so, I downloaded two packages for Elements 11; the first package I tried didn't work, but the second one did.