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Welcome to this lesson on Installing Effects, whether you call them plug-ins or filters and using those with Paint Shop Pro Photo. I almost hate to do this lesson because it seems like it should be simpler, but it's not. Right now I've got a web page open and a couple of folders open and I'm going to go to the web page. There's a website called Paint Shop Pro Users Group, which is a nice place to go visit and here they have a couple of files that you may need to install on your system before some plug-ins may work. It's MSVCRT10.DLL and PlugIn.DLL and it advises that you put them in your Windows System Directory. However, that's sort of old advise. I'm putting them in my Windows System 32 Directory and I'm running Windows XP Pro, Service Pack 3. If you're running Windows Vista, you need to find your comparable directory and install these there. So I downloaded those zip files to my Desktop and I'm just going to open them up and put those DLLs in my system folder and this is so that these plug-ins that I've downloaded can run. Now, I know I need these plug-ins for these DLLs here because I've gone through and I've installed the filters and they didn't work without them. You may find filters that do work without you having to install additional DLLs into your system directory. You can also find free filters and links to free filters here on this website and many others. There are plenty of places to search for and find free or commercial filters. So I go the tip about needing to install these DLLs from the Paint Shop Pro Users Group and it was very effective. So here they are in my Windows System folder, System 32. Now, you'll notice down here I do not have Paint Shop Pro running. I put an icon on my Desktop so that I can quickly launch it. Do all of the installation with Paint Shop Pro closed. So here's my Windows System 32. I'm going to minimize that and now take you to the Plug-Ins folder of Paint Shop Pro Photo. You can change this behavior but the default is to store plug-ins in the C Program Files Corel, Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 Languages, which is not that obvious of a place, EN, which stands for English, which is my language, Plug-Ins. If this Plug-Ins folder is not there, you may have to create it yourself. So if I back out to the Paint Shop Pro area here, here's Corel and I've got Paint Shop Pro Photo X2. Double click there and now you've got all of these different folders, languages and your language. Mine is English. Create this folder if you need to. Go into there. This is where then plug-ins can be installed. You could also create a folder, say called Plug-Ins in your Program Files Directory and then point Paint Shop Pro to that folder and that would work too. So you can see I already have one plug-in installed; Tone Mapping by Matrix and the extension is 8BF and that's how you tell if a plug-in is theoretically compatible with Paint Shop Pro. In this case it is not. But I have it there to illustrate those. Now, I've downloaded these filters here and I'm going to double click those and you can see all of those .8BF files in this zip archive. So I'm just going to click the first one, press Shift, go down to the last one, drag those over to my Plug-Ins Folder and there they are. Now, I should be able to launch Paint Shop Pro and it recognized those filters and everything's going to be hunky-dory. OK? So I'm going to minimize this, launch Paint Shop Pro. You can see there's a product update from the message center. Let's go to File, Preferences for a moment and look at file locations. Here is where if you wanted to, you can either find, alter or add plug-in locations. Also a couple different parameters on enabling plug-ins, limiting plug-ins to those with a .8B extension and then allow file format plug-ins to request pre-filtering of support file types. Here's the default directory. I can click here and see it in the languages EN Plug-Ins. I can add, let's say if I wanted to create a Plug-In Folder on my hard drive and just add that, it'd be simple to do there. Alright. Let's open up one of my recent files and you can see the flag and now I'll go to Effects, Plug-Ins is where the installed plug-ins will show up and then you can see here Alf's Power Toys. Those are the plug-ins I just installed. The Photo Matrix plug-in was there already, but if I click that, hmm, doesn't work. Unfortunately not every plug-in created will work with Paint Shop Pro. That's one of the bad things about the world of Paint Shop Pro Photo compared to Photoshop. Most plug-ins are created for Photoshop. So be careful when you shop around and look for things to make sure they're compatible. Most are. Let's go into the Effects then, Plug-Ins, Alf's Power Toys and choose some difference noise here to see if it works and it does. Change the parameters just like you would in any other effect. Press OK and you're done. So there's how to install third-party effects and plug-ins or filters, whatever you want to call them into Paint Shop Pro Photo.