An atlernative to this plug ?

[Pierre]

I use often the "Pool Shadow" filter, it's a Greg's Filter Factory, 8 or 16 bits, I don't know.
A very, very nice plug who creates shadows.
It appears sometimes under a other name , "Crossshadow", I think.

Now, with newer Photoshop versions (since CS5, 32 or 64-bit versions), it doesn't work anymore -

First question
Have you a tip to use this plugins in a recent versions of Photoshop ?... A bridge ?

Second question
Do you know an alternative way to this plug, a similar ?
Gallery >
http://rose.dessables.free.fr/images/tutoriel/gree water/1.jpg
http://www.crealinegraphic.com/tutos/Tutos2010/Tag_Passion_fichiers/image001.jpg

Thank's for help

 

[Tom Mann]

I'm not familiar with that particular filter, but ...

a) There is an old thread on dpreview that sorta-kinda discusses this:
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3060493

b) I have quite a few old filters that don't work on 64 bit versions of PS, so I keep an old 32 bit version of PS installed on my Win 8 machine, and it allows quite a few of them to run just fine. Unfortunately, like you have found, some don't work, not matter what you do (eg, compatibility mode, etc.), and I presume this is because of Win 8 is a 64 bit OS, whereas many of the oldies were written for 32 bit OSs. In any case, having one older version of PS on my machine doesn't take up very much disk space and seems to get along just fine with the latest versions of PS.

HTH,

Tom M