Shader Plugin for Photoshop

Shader Plugin allows to process images in Photoshop with GLSL shaders. It's will be usefull for technical artists for creation shader effects, masks, noise textures in Photoshop. Also you can process images with multipass filters like FXAA (by NVIDIA) inside Photoshop!!!

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Features:

• Realtime rendering
• Support 8/16/32 bit images (color and grayscale).
• Uniforms with usefull image information from Photoshop.
• 4 additional buffers for making complex effects.
• Syntax Highlighting
• 8K Image Support
• Errors highlighting. Full errors list can be shown in separent window (just click on statusbar).

System Requiremets:

Windows 7+ (x64 only)
Photoshop CS5+ (tested on CS6 .. 2022)
.Net Framework 4.6.2+

License

MIT

ResourcesPatchTool also destributed under MIT license except DiffMatchPatch.cs
Google Diff Match and Patch licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Photoshop Plug-In and Connection SDK - ADOBE® PHOTOSHOP® SDK License (not included, see pluginsdk\About_SDK.txt)

Authors:

Alex Zelensky
Vladimir Rymkevich

How to Compile

ADOBE® PHOTOSHOP® SDK License Agreement restrict to distribute SDK parts (include modified) as code.
This makes unavailable to share c++ Resources. They use custom build tool and process for generate them.
Any way we can share patch with ResourcesPatchTool to solve this problem:

1. Download "Photoshop Plug-In and Connection SDK", see pluginsdk\About_SDK.txt
2. Open solution ResourcesPatchTool\ResourcesPatchTool.sln and Build it.
3. Run ResourcesPatchTool and select item: "1 - Apply patch and generate Resource file."
4. Now you have created ShaderPlugin\Common\ShaderPlugin.r from SDK and ShaderPlugin.r_patch.
5. Open solution ShaderPlugin\ShaderPlugin.sln and Build it.
6. Copy GLSL shaders from Shaders folder to User Documents Documents\ShaderPlugin for Photoshop\Shaders.