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Where is the onOne menu in Photoshop CS5?

June 2, 2010 by Mike Wong • 15 Comments

For years, you have been able to access our plug-ins for Photoshop from the onOne menu, a menu that we created and then inserted into Photoshop's menu bar between the Window and Help menu items. The method that was available to us for many years is no longer available in Photoshop CS5 ((there were hints of this in some instances of Photoshop CS4 as well, but it's really gone for good in CS5)).

So for many of you who have just updated to the Photoshop CS5 compatible versions of our plug-ins, you don't see the onOne menu that you are so accustomed to seeing and you're wondering "how do I access my plug-ins?". A quick trip to the Filter menu shows nothing from onOne. That's because, technically, our plug-ins are not filters.

Where you will find them is under the File > Automate menu. What? Where? Why? The reason is that beginning in Photoshop CS4 ((maybe it was CS3, I can't remember for sure)) most of our products were converted over to Automation plug-ins so that they could be used in a batch process or as part of an action.

Starting in Photoshop CS4, we knew that eventually we'd no longer be able to use the beloved onOne menu so we took advantage of the new panels that Adobe introduced in the CS4 release. The new onOne panel gives you all the functionality of the older onOne menu. But how do you get to it? In Photoshop, go to the Window menu and then to Extensions. There, you'll see onOne. Select onOne from the Window > Extensions menu and you'll get the new onOne panel. The onOne panel can be docked along with any of the other panels in Photoshop so you can customize your workspace.

So now you have two options, either the onOne panel or the File > Automate menu. Good luck! If you'd like to see a video of this, Dan Harlacher, our senior product manager recorded one to show you how to access the onOne panel.

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