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Hello Somps,
No, I don’t think there is any way to create a custom grouping of filters in PS. Sometimes, I too have seen a few filters that, if grouped into subfolder of the Plug-ins folder would then appear as a submenu under the Filters menu, but I forget what they were and I’ve not seen such behavior lately. There are plugins managers available to help you manage large numbers of plugins, but I’m not sure if any of them work in a way that doesn’t require a restart of Photoshop, since it is during the initialization phase that the plugins are loaded. I suspect the premise of those plugin managers is that they move certain folders of filters in and out of the Plugins directory, or perhaps rename them so they’re hidden. It is too bad Adobe hasn’t (to my knowledge) implemented any recognition of plugins that have been moved into user-defined directories, with each directory then definining a Filters submenu.
While I’ve never done so, your best bet is probably to try and define those filters which you use for specific tasks in Photoshop and use the Custom Workspaces and Custom Menus (PS CS2, CS3) to hide the filter menus or filter items you don’t want to see for each task, and then associate those custom menus with a task-specific custom workspace.
Regards,
Daryll
No, I don’t think there is any way to create a custom grouping of filters in PS. Sometimes, I too have seen a few filters that, if grouped into subfolder of the Plug-ins folder would then appear as a submenu under the Filters menu, but I forget what they were and I’ve not seen such behavior lately. There are plugins managers available to help you manage large numbers of plugins, but I’m not sure if any of them work in a way that doesn’t require a restart of Photoshop, since it is during the initialization phase that the plugins are loaded. I suspect the premise of those plugin managers is that they move certain folders of filters in and out of the Plugins directory, or perhaps rename them so they’re hidden. It is too bad Adobe hasn’t (to my knowledge) implemented any recognition of plugins that have been moved into user-defined directories, with each directory then definining a Filters submenu.
While I’ve never done so, your best bet is probably to try and define those filters which you use for specific tasks in Photoshop and use the Custom Workspaces and Custom Menus (PS CS2, CS3) to hide the filter menus or filter items you don’t want to see for each task, and then associate those custom menus with a task-specific custom workspace.
Regards,
Daryll
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