*Only Adobe publishes parser and selection plugins. īelow is a complete list of the plugin varieties: Plugin type lrplugin if they are intended for Adobe Lightroom only) the package's ist file includes a CFBundlePackageType code that distinguishes the plugin types, using the same upper-case, four-letter codes originally used in the pre-Mac OS X resource forks these are generally the same as the Windows extensions but with 'M' added to the end (e.g., Windows. In modern macOS (from Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah, onward), all Photoshop plugins are distributed as package folders with an extension of. There are several other types of Photoshop plugin (see table below).
8ly) plugins repeat or streamline certain tasks, in the manner of Photoshop actions. 8bi) plugins open and save less common image formats (not natively supported by Photoshop). 8be) plugins acquire or write image data from or to certain devices, while file format (. Photoshop-compatible plugins fall into several types, distinguishable in Microsoft Windows (and historically in Mac OS 9 and earlier) by their filename extensions.
