Cannot Get Photokit Sharpener to Run

[gurtch]

Not sure where to post this, so I am posting on the PC Forum, and the Retouch Forum.

I have used PK Sharpener for many years but somehow screwed up my PC and some of my legacy Plug Ins and Filters. PK Sharpener works great for me because it has "Capture Sharpen", and allows for pre-sharpening old film negative or positive scans, based on film size type, etc.

I down loaded the free version of Photokit Sharpener. I printed out the "READ ME" file, and unzipped the file. I then went to C:>Program Files> Adobe>Photoshop CS6>Plugins and copied the PK Sharpener file there. I get the message to run as Administrator. However I never "Ran" anything, I only copied the Plugin file to it's intended place. When I open Photoshop CS6, open an image, then go to Automate> Photokit Capture Sharpener, I get the warning as seen on the screen shot. Hopefully someone can help here. It is a wonderful thing that the developers, when they went out of business, they posted a free full version as a thank you. Wow!

Dave Gurtcheff, Beach Haven, NJ

 

[BobKnDP]

What Windows version are you running?

Is this where you got the download? PixelGenius, Photoshop Plug-in Developer, Developer of PhotoKit plug-ins, PhotoKit, PhotoKit Sharpener, PhotoKit Color, PhotoKit-EL

As an experiment, I tried it, following the instructions. That was with the 64 bit download. Windows 11 asked for admin privileges to copy the folder to the Photoshop plugins directory. I wasn't asked to run anything.

This was for the current version of Photoshop CC. I see you're on CS6.

None of this may help you, but at least I can confirm that the installation instructions work properly in my system.

 

[grsnovi]

From the PG website:

A note about Photoshop CC 202x and macOS Catalina (10.15) and plug-ins.
Adobe has posted a page discussing running Catalina & Photoshop using legacy functiuons and 3rd party plug-ins. There is a way to to get PhotoKit brand of plug-ins to run by performing a Terminal operation to "notarize" the plug-ins. See this page: Photoshop and macOS Catalina (10.15). Scroll down and read the section headed: Plug-ins not found or cannot be verified. And no, sorry, we won't be updating the current plug-ins below in the future.

I suspect that your current set-up (OS and PS versions) are incompatible with how things may have worked 22 years ago.

 

[gurtch]

What Windows version are you running?

Is this where you got the download? PixelGenius, Photoshop Plug-in Developer, Developer of PhotoKit plug-ins, PhotoKit, PhotoKit Sharpener, PhotoKit Color, PhotoKit-EL

As an experiment, I tried it, following the instructions. That was with the 64 bit download. Windows 11 asked for admin privileges to copy the folder to the Photoshop plugins directory. I wasn't asked to run anything.

This was for the current version of Photoshop CC. I see you're on CS6.

None of this may help you, but at least I can confirm that the installation instructions work properly in my system.

Bob: I still have old versions of Photoshop: CS5 32 Bit, CS5 64 Bit, CS6 32 Bit and CS6 64Bit. I kept them because it was not a subscription (I own them) but especially since I had numerous Plug Ins, Filters, etc that are no longer available, but run fine on those versions. I recently had some old photos to retouch, so I purchased (I paid a yearly fee) to get Photoshop 2024 because of its advanced restoration filters, etc. I never even tried to try Photokit Sharpener in PS 2024, as I assumed it would not work. I tried to install it on my older versions but still get the Run As Administrator warning. Just for the heck of it, I will attempt to install it in PS 2024. Thanks for the help.

Dave

 

[BobKnDP]

Maybe this is a stupid question, but:

Did you download the .ZIP from PixelGenius, Photoshop Plug-in Developer, Developer of PhotoKit plug-ins, PhotoKit, PhotoKit Sharpener, PhotoKit Color, PhotoKit-EL?

There are no executables in the download.

Also, it has no need for a license code.

I needed to give admin permission to copy the files to the PS plug-ins folder, but with no "run as".

Taking your original post literally, I wonder what you tried to copy to the plugins folder? The instruction call for the whole "PixelGenius Toolbox Plug-in Module" folder to be copied over.

 

[gurtch]

What Windows version are you running?

Is this where you got the download? PixelGenius, Photoshop Plug-in Developer, Developer of PhotoKit plug-ins, PhotoKit, PhotoKit Sharpener, PhotoKit Color, PhotoKit-EL

As an experiment, I tried it, following the instructions. That was with the 64 bit download. Windows 11 asked for admin privileges to copy the folder to the Photoshop plugins directory. I wasn't asked to run anything.

This was for the current version of Photoshop CC. I see you're on CS6.

None of this may help you, but at least I can confirm that the installation instructions work properly in my system.

Bob: I still have old versions of Photoshop: CS5 32 Bit, CS5 64 Bit, CS6 32 Bit and CS6 64Bit. I kept them because it was not a subscription (I own them) but especially since I had numerous Plug Ins, Filters, etc that are no longer available, but run fine on those versions. I recently had some old photos to retouch, so I purchased (I paid a yearly fee) to get Photoshop 2024 because of its advanced restoration filters, etc. I never even tried to try Photokit Sharpener in PS 2024, as I assumed it would not work. I tried to install it on my older versions but still get the Run As Administrator warning. Just for the heck of it, I will attempt to install it in PS 2024. Thanks for the help.

Dave

Bob: It worked on Photoshop 2024. See screen shot, I was able to use Capture Sharpen on one of my Dad's 1935-36 medium format negatives. I am 88 and you made an old man very happy. If you are curious about my Dad's negatives that were lost for 72 years, go to my Web Site and select the "ALEXANDER GURTCHEFF PAGE"

Dave Gurtcheff Beach Haven, NJ

www.modernpictorials.com

 

[BobKnDP]

I'm not sure what happened, but I'm glad that you got it working.

I wish that more companies would release license-free versions of their software when they're abandoning it.

 

[dbr49x]

I'm not sure what happened, but I'm glad that you got it working.

I wish that more companies would release license-free versions of their software when they're abandoning it.

No kidding!

 

[Zeee]

I'm not sure what happened, but I'm glad that you got it working.

I wish that more companies would release license-free versions of their software when they're abandoning it.

I got it when it became free which was a long time ago. I have not used it for years.

I think the difference between the app companies and the PixelGenius group is size, etc. The bigger App companies would wind up dealing with people who expect abandoned software to work forever. If I owned a company I would not tie up my resources for that.