Where does this go?

[LoriG]

I was looking around the Adobe Exchange site today and downloaded something called glitter.atn. From looking at the extenion I figured (I think anyway) out it has a filter extension. I went into C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 3.0\Previews and tried putting it into textures (just a guess). Deleted cache like you're suppose to, but when I open up PSE, let it rebuilt, its not there. Can someone please help me and let me know where I should paste things with a .atn extension. I may be totally off and it may not work in PSE3 at all. Thanks for any help you can give me.

Lori

[Diana]

Hi Lori,

The files with an .ATN extension are Actions. Many photoshop actions will not run in Elements...most likely if not written for Elements, it won't.

Here's an article that may help:

http://www.graficalicus.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=164

Diana

[LoriG]

Thanks for your help Diana. Here I am thinking I finally figured something out on my own by looking through the previews and seeing that all the filters had a atn extension and I just figured that it must be a filter. Oh well, I'm still learning.

Lori

[Diana]

Lori, actions, plugins and addons are a little confusing.

The (menu) Filters that came with Elements are actions, but they were writen specifically for Elements. The add-on actions for Elements, after they are installed, usually show up under the Styles & Effects palette under Effects.

Here are some websites that have actions written for Elements:

http://www.cavesofice.org/~grant/Challenge/Tools/index.html (Grant's Tools)
http://www.graficalicus.com/downloadbasket/categories.php?cat_id=8
http://www.panosfx.com/ (look in the Elements section)
http://www.hiddenelements.com/freeframes.html (Bud's Frames)
http://atomiccupcake.com/labelmaker/digitallabelmaker.php

Then there are the plugins which when installed usually show up under the menu Filter list, which are .8bf files. Here are links to some of those:

http://www.mehdiplugins.com/ (Kaleidoscope is great fun)
http://www.vizros.com/
http://www.xero-graphics.co.uk/freeware.htm

Here's a good article about add-ons and where to put the files once you download them:

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/pselements/qt/freegoodies.htm

Hope this helps.

Diana

[Ashac]

Wow, Diana, what a great explanation!! That's really helpful for someone as new to this as I am.

Asha