Yesterday my son asked for help to open dds files in Photoshop. After some googling, I found this NVIDIA plugin for Photoshop and some articles, which complained that it does not work with Photoshop CS4 64bit. To solve this problem it was necessary to understand two things: that when 64bit version of Photoshop was installed, 32bit version also was installed, and that NVIDIA DDS plugin put the dds.8bi file to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4 (64 Bit)\Plug-ins\File Formats folder.
So, to open dds files in Photoshop:
- download and install this NVIDIA plugin for Photoshop;
- copy dds.8bi file from
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4 (64 Bit)\Plug-ins\File Formatsfolder toC:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\Plug-ins\File Formatsfolder; - run 32bit Photoshop version from
C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\
Hope this helps someone.
1. Comment by gunshit
3/Feb/2010 at 4:47 am
Well… what’s the purpose of this kind of tutorial? I mean, you just can install the plugin directly on your 32 bit CS4, just browsing your CS4 32 bit folder… silly uh? xD
2. Comment by bilal
2/Mar/2010 at 11:58 am
thankyou it helped..!
3. Comment by adi
5/May/2010 at 10:19 pm
Thank you very much, your tutorial is very helpful for me :).
I was very frustating about dds plugin with photoshop 64 bit. and now its solved.
Thank you very much Mate. :)
4. Comment by atikabubu
17/May/2010 at 4:26 pm
You forgot about the normal map filter, which is in the filter folder ;)