Droplet.exe in Photoshop

[DamoRed]

Hi all,

While having a look around the various folders in Photoshop CS2, I came across a folder of droplets, which are all labelled with names such as 'Aged photo.exe' and 'Make sepia Tone.exe'

At first I thought I was seeing things. So I dropped an image onto one of them, and hey presto, it did its thing.

How and why are these called .exe? I thought that was purely for windows self executing files.

Thank you

Damo

 

[WildCowboy]

They're actually cross-platform "mini-apps". Adobe just chose to use the .exe extension, probably to ensure Windows compatibility. As you've seen, Macs can also use them just fine.