Adobe Photoshop SDK

Adobe Photoshop SDK is a software development kit that allows programmers to enhance the functionality of the well known editing tool by creating plug-ins.

Using this toolkit, you are able to develop additional components for Adobe Photoshop using the C programming language.

Key Features:

• Integrate functionality for Photoshop with applications from all kinds of mobile devices


• Build extended panels to create new access paths for tools


• Overview of writing plugins and showcasing available plugin types


• Header files in C, source and resource packages provided

Technical Specifications:

• Language: C


• Platform: Windows, macOS


• Price: FREE


• Publisher: Adobe

Adobe Photoshop SDK provides header files in C, as well as source and resource packages. You get source code samples for all the possible plug-ins that you create. Every file that is available in the SDK is made to define the structures and serve as the core of the plug-in modules that you want to build.

With the Adobe Photoshop SDK you get the core modules that stand at the heart of Photoshop. You are free to use export, filter, color picker, selection and automation modules which provide you with everything you need from creating a simple selection of the image, to applying artistic filters and finally exporting the photo in a certain format.

In closing, if you have some C programming language skills and are a Photoshop user, then there is nothing stopping you from developing your own plugins which can improve not only your work but also that of others.