Calling Helicon Filter from Adobe Photoshop

After installation of the program, Helicon Filter plug-in will be automatically added to the most popular programs that support PS-compatible plug-ins.

Helicon Filter automatically registers itself in the following software packages:

• Adobe Photoshop 6.0+
• Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0+
• Corel Photo-Paint
• Jacs Paint-Shop Pro 8.0+

If you have program that support PS-compatible plug-ins but are not included in this list, please let us know. We will include them in the next version.

To register a plug-in manually, copy file "c:\program files\Helicon Software\Helicon Filter\library\HeliconFilter.8bf" to the folder with plug-ins.

Helicon Filter Plug-in can handle 16-bit per channel images and images with embedded color profile.

Helicon Filter Plug-in is available in the Pro version and is not available in the Home version.  During a 30 days evaluation period it is available in all versions.

Calling PS-compatible plug-ins  from Helicon Filter

Helicon Filter can be used to call installed PS-compatible plug-ins.

Helicon Filter looks for installed plug-ins in the folders of popular software packages like Adobe Photoshop or Corel Photo-Paint. All compatible plug-ins are added to the Plugins menu of the Helicon Filter.

To add external plug-ins manually, please copy plug-in file to the appropriate folder of Helicon Filter ("c:\program files\Helicon Software\Helicon Filter\Plug-ins\")

If you are working with raw or tiff images and external plug-in does not support 16-bit per channel images, then the image will be converted to 8 bit and then again to 16 bit after plug-in call. This may cause some loss of details. In this case, use such plug-in at the last step.

Thanks to generous permission of Harald Heim, we included Harry's Filters 3.0 to our installation. You can get the latest version of this package on www.ThePluginSite.com.
 

If you have problems calling plug-ins from Helicon Filter, please let us know.