Download link for plug-ins 'New link with no pop ups'http://raboninco.com/YFin. A plug-in for Adobe Photoshop to support.DDS files based on DirectXTex to provide full support for all formats. NVIDIA has a DDS plugin in for Adobe Photoshop, but it does not support the 'DX10' header extension, BC6H, or BC7. Artists can open and save DDS files directly from Adobe Photoshop using the NVIDIA Texture Tools Exporter plug-in. This plug-in also supports Photoshop Actions – so you can record an action to convert an image to a normal map and compress it using BC7, for instance, and then bind that to a hotkey. Ink, a Photoshop plugin. Ink is one of the best free Photoshop plugins on this list. It allows designers to create useful mockups and user interfaces, which lets an inexperienced Photoshop user — like a developer, for example — understand the design elements within a coding framework.
This simple guide will run you through the necessary steps of installing a .dds plugin for Photoshop CS 6.
What is DDS ?
The DirectDraw Surface container file format (uses the filename extension DDS), is a Microsoft formatfor storing data compressed with the proprietary S3 Texture Compression (S3TC) algorithm, which can be decompressed in hardware by GPUs.
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Source: wikipedia.comBy default, Photoshop CS 6 is unable to read a .dds file. We need to grab the NVIDIA Texture Tools from here. These set of tools contain the NVIDIA Normal Map filter, the NVIDIA DDS plug-in, Mipster (A mip-map generation script) and the Cube Map Shuffler.
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The NVIDIA Texture Tools for Adobe Photoshop are compatible with Adobe Photoshop 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4, CS5 and CS6.
Hitting the download button will take you to the download page. In my case, I’ll choose Windows [64-bit]. Launch the .exe file you just downloaded. It’ll ask you to register the product by Name and Organization. I choose something random here as all my work is done for personal use.
It should find your installation directory automatically. In my case, it is D:Program FilesAdobeAdobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit) and click [Next]
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To verify that everything was installed correctly, navigate to Program FilesAdobeAdobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)Plug-insFileFormats and you should see your new .DDS plugin installed.