| Installing Third-Party Plugins in PSP5 or PSP6 |
PSP
7 now comes with more filters than ever before. However, there are still
other filters you can install and use that can only enhance your painting
creativity.
For the third-party plugins to work, you must have installed in your C\Windows\System directory the msvcrt10.dll. And there are still some filters which also require the plugin.dll. You can download both files below. Just unzip them into your systems directory.
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I made my plugins directory right on my C: Drive not in the PSP program directory. (C:\PSPPlugins1, C:\PSPPlugins2) You can have up to three plugin directories. Right now I'm only using two of them. In my first directory I place the filters that I use most often. In the second one I have those that I don't use that often, but could not live without.....yet. lol
And I have found that one of the easiest ways to keep my filters organized is to put each one into its own sub-folder. A lot of the filters will create their own folder, but there are still a lot of them that don't. I just make a separate folder, naming it the name of the filter I am going to install, within the PSPPlugins1 directory. (C:\PSPPlugins1\Almathera) I will install or unzip the filter right into that new sub-folder. By doing this, if you find you do not like the filter you downloaded, all you have to do is delete the sub-folder instead of trying to figure out which files belong to which filters if they are just dumped randomly into your main PSPPlugins directory.
One thing to remember is that some filters must be installed while others need only be unzipped into their sub-folder. So, if you find no need for a filter that had been installed, uninstall it through Add/Remove programs rather than just deleting its folder.
After unzipping and installing your filters into their folders, open your PSP and click on File/Preferences/File Locations. Then click on the Plug-in Filters tab. Click on Browse and find your PSPPlugins1 directory and click on OK or type in the directory path in the space next to Folder 1. Just repeat those steps if you are using Folder 2 and 3. Click on OK. This is how it should look. With the second box checked to include sub-folders when searching for filters, PSP will read all of your individual sub-folders that you have made for each filter you installed.
Your filters load when you open PSP. The more filters you have, the longer it will take your program to fully load. In Version 7 my Folder 2 path is usually blank until I find I need a filter from that directory. At that point I would open the File Locations screen and Browse to that folder. When I click ok, PSP will load all the filters in that directory without me having to close down the PSP program itself, which is a little bit different than what happens in earlier versions of PSP. Hopefully in the next version they will include an enable this path option like they have for tubes, patterns...etc.
OK...OK, I know I'm wordy, but just seems like I have lots to say about lots of stuff. Hope this helps you get started with using third-party filters. Although I find that the use of them is diminishing with every new version of PSP. (IMHO) :-)
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