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PS CS3 - problem with plugins


aixs

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I use Photoshop CS3. All plug-ins used to work before. Now with some of the plug-ins (liquify+vanishing point+artistic for example) the following happens:

- plug-in dialog window opens
- i can make changes and see the preview of them in the plug-in window
- i can apply the plug-in
- then PS displays a dialog saying something like "applying effect.."
- but when that is finished I'm back at my original image without the plug-in effect being applied (nothing shows in history window)

I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling Photoshop but the problem remains. I even tried installing a demo of PS CS4 but have the same problem with that version.

The error appears on the plugins with a more sophisticated user interface, the ones with the basic UI (like gaussian blur etc) still work ok.

One suspicion I have is that this could have something to do with a corrupt/incorrect dll somewhere on my system. Does Photoshop write an error log somewhere or is it possible to debug the application to see why I get this error? Or does anyone have any other ideas?

I'd appreciate any suggestions or tips because I really don't know how to fix this!
 
I'm on Windows Vista and after some further investigation I notice that when I run Photoshop as administrator all plugins are working ok. But I don´t really want to run Photoshop as administrator all the time. Why are some of the filters not working when I run Photoshop in normal "user-mode"?
 

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