In modern macOS (from Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah, onward), all Photoshop plugins are distributed as package folders with an extension of. There are several other types of Photoshop plugin (see table below). 8ly) plugins repeat or streamline certain tasks, in the manner of Photoshop actions. 8bi) plugins open and save less common image formats (not natively supported by Photoshop).
8be) plugins acquire or write image data from or to certain devices, while file format (.
Photoshop-compatible plugins fall into several types, distinguishable in Microsoft Windows (and historically in Mac OS 9 and earlier) by their filename extensions.