The New onOne Palette
January 26, 2010 by Mike Wong • 7 Comments
One the most common questions we have received since the release of our Plug-In Suite 5 is "How do I get to the plug-ins? I only see Mask Pro 4 in the Photoshop CS4 Filter menu. Where are Genuine Fractals, PhotoTools, PhotoFrame, PhotoTune and FocalPoint?" Well, the short answer is that technically, the only "Filter" that we develop here at onOne is Mask Pro 4. The rest of the plug-ins technically are Automation plug-ins and "live" elsewhere within Photoshop.
Genuine Fractals, PhotoTools, PhotoFrame, PhotoTune and FocalPoint are all technically Photoshop Automation plug-ins. As an Automation plugin, you can include any of these plug-ins in an action that you create in Photoshop to speed up your workflow. They can also be included in any batch processing workflow that you may have as well. As an Automation plugin, the plugin will show up in the File > Automation menu.
In previous versions of the onOne Plug-In Suite, to make it easier to find our plug-ins (because quite frankly, you shouldn't have to know or be concerned with the difference between a Filter and an Automation plug-in or where they live within Photoshop for that matter) we created the onOne Menu which is inserted between the Window and Help menu items in the Photoshop menu bar. However, over the years with changes to both Photoshop and (primarily) the Windows operating system, the creation of this menu has been, how shall I put it... delicate. Fragile. Sometimes flaky and non-existent to be honest. On the Mac OS X platform, it hasn't been a problem, but not all of you out there use Mac OS X so we had to find a better, long-term solution to provide a single, consistent and stable place to allow you to access our plug-ins.
Enter the Photoshop CS4 Panel.
You are most likely already familiar with these panels. In fact, you use them everyday. There is a Layers panel, Masks panel, Adjustments panel, etc etc etc. Perhaps the coolest thing about panels is that anybody can create a panel. John Nack has a panel that shows his daily RSS feed from his blog. Julieanne Kost has a daily PS tip panel.
We figured since the onOne menu doesn't work for everybody in Photoshop CS4 that we would create a panel for our plug-ins. The problem is that while it gets installed automatically when you run the onOne Plug-In Suite 5 installer, it doesn't actually show up when you relaunch Photoshop. But it's easy to get it to appear after you've run the installer. Here's what you do.
Simply go to the Window > Extensions menu and then choose onOne. Up pops the new onOne Panel where you can now double-click on any of the product names and go directly into that plug-in. Alternately, if you single-click on a product name, a sub-menu is exposed showing you any preset categories that you have created with that plug-in. Click on a category name and you see the presets in that category. If you double-click on a preset name, that preset will be applied to your photo. Very slick.
The new onOne Palette
Preset categories displayed
So if you have installed Plug-In Suite 5 and you are not sure where all of your favorite plug-ins are located, just go to the Window > Extensions menu and select onOne. You will have a nice new palette with everything in one place. Oh, and by the way, you can dock it alongside your other panels as well by dragging it into either the panel bar or next to a panel that is already open like the Layers panel.
Probably not the best place to post this question, but here goes anyway:
Now that the iPad has been announced with support for iPhone apps, are there plans to allow DSLR Remote to tether directly from the camera to the iPad???
Please say yes.
After installation the panel does not look like yours. I only do have three large coloums saying “on onOne Software” “onOne Exanche” & “Reset | Find More Online”. Where can I get only the installation file of the panel?
Hi! I have the same problem than MV. I’ve installed onOne Suite 5 on a Mac PowerPc G5 with Photoshop CS4 and the panel only shows onOne Exchange… Does anybody know why???
I have the same problem with my panel being empty, just how MV described it. How can this problem be resolved?
I had the same problem with no menu items in the onOne menu Panel like the others above have. But what worked for me was to download the Plug-in Suite 5.1 update and after it installed I have all the menu items now in the onOne Panel and everything is working fine.
I have the same problem with onOne panel as MV.Update to 5.1.1 doesnt help.Is there some patch for this bug?
We see this sporadically but have had a hard time consistently reproducing it in our test lab. We’re also talking to some of the Adobe Photoshop developers about this problem to see if they can assist us in tracking it down.
In the meantime until we get a fix, please use the Contact Form on this blog to let me know the following:
1. Version of Photoshop you are running
2. Operating System you are running including any “dot” updates you have installed
3. Version of the onOne plug-in(s) that you are running
4. If you are using any other plug-ins, include that as well
5. Are you running Photoshop in 32-bit or 64-bit mode?
In our lab, the Suite 5.1.1 update fixed the panel issues most people saw with the 5.1.0 release, but clearly, there are some cases where it’s not working. Any information you can provide will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Mike