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In article <gdquj9dtitklh6qoft392dnkvgv3pjk9fa@4ax.com>, Eric Stevens <eric.stevens@sum.co.nz>wrote:

once again, there is no approval necessary to write and sell a photoshop plug-in and call it that, which is what a lot of companies do.

Tony Cooper
To paraphrase one of your favorite terms: no one has said that any approval is required to write a plug-in to used with an Adobe product.

Sandman
Only to "use with" Photoshop:

Tony Cooper 03/15/2014 03:13:30 PM <hgn8i9pp0requhve7bt09eubvstel0ig44@4ax.com>

"they can approve vendors as suppliers of plugins for Photoshop. The plugins on that page are evidently plugins that Adobe has approved for use with Photoshop."

Only - you have never been able to provide any support for the approval process from Adobe for plugins to be "used with" Photoshop.

Eric Stevens
See https://www.adobeexchange.com/producer

Sandman
You pointed to a process wherein Adobe approves to include the plug-in on their market place (titled "Photoshop Plug-ins" while none are authored by Adobe), but that failed to provide support for the claim that they approve the plugins "for use with Photoshop".

Eric Stevens
I think the process begins here http://www.adobe.com/misc/terms.html and the information you are after may be downstream of section 9.5

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it doesn't.

all you need to do is download the photoshop sdk, write whatever plug-in you want and offer it for sale. adobe doesn't even have to know about it.