Sharpen AI as a plugin for Photoshop?

Topaz Products Product Technical Support
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Hi,
I finally installed my complimentary copy of Sharpen AI, and tried it in freestanding mode. I have seen reference to the idea that it is also accessible in Photoshop. I see all my familiar Topaz plugins but can not find Sharpen.

How do I get access to Sharpen as a Photoshop plugin?

Thank you.

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The method of getting it installed into PS is there simply run it as a standalone and it will install itself as a plug-in.

The plug-in will appear as a entry in the Topaz Studio list of plugins.

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Thank you for the reply.

Does that mean I have to install Topaz Studio to use Sharpen AI as a plugin? I have the older Topaz plugins and have not installed Studio.

Thank you.

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My apologies, that should read Topaz Labs list of plugins and not the Topaz Studio list. It should already be there and look like this as in my copy of CS6:

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Hi Don,
Thank you very much for this information.

Thank you!

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Hi,
FWIW, I connected my Photoshop CS6 Win7 x64 install to the Topaz Sharpen A.I. plugin by pointing Photoshop’s additional Plugins Folder to the C:\Program Files\Topaz Labs directory.

The last time I had to do that was way back with Topaz Labs DeNoise 5 so I found my additional folder was set to the C:\Program Files(x86)\Topaz Labs\Topaz DeNoise 5 directory.

I looked in my primary Photoshop plugins folder and see several shortcuts for my other Topaz Labs plugins, but for what ever reason a short cut such as that was not added with the Topaz Sharpen AI install, so I had to use the Photoshop additional folders preferences option to point to the plugin.

Thank you.

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HI Can you give exact instructions of how to point Photoshop’s additional Plugins Folder to the C:\Program Files\Topaz Labs directory? I am using Photoshop CS5.
Topaz is not listed under filters

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Hi,
The instructions are universal for any Photoshop plug-in that does not install in the default plugins folder:

Edit > Preferences > Plug-Ins > Additional Plug-Ins Folders > Choose

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I have Photoshop CC and the AI Sharpen 1.0.5 does not automatically plug in to Photoshop, is there something I’m doing wrong?

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Why v1.0.5? It is way out of date. Try running as a standalone, if not update to the latest.