Free Photoshop-compatible Plugins
PhotoFreebies
... is a collection of free plugins for performing usefull photo manipulations
and effects e.g. sepia effects, desaturation gradients, b/w conversion,
color space transformations and many more.
Plugin Galaxy
... is a set of 20 plugins with all kind of fantastic effects. Two of
these plugins (PopArt and Zoom) are free!
Harry's Filters
... contains 55 filter effects. They include filters for changing the
image color or mood, for creating artistic effects, producing colorful
gradients or impressive patterns, warping images, adding special noise
effects to images, encrypting and decrypting images with 64 bit keys and
producing various other effects like zoom, mirror or paint effects.
David Blend Filters
The collection consist of 13 plugins. The three "Frosted Edger"
plugins apply a vignette of varying radius and intensity. The three "Gradient
Sky" plugins overlays the image with userdefined color gradient for
enhancing the colors of photos. "Highlight Correction" darkens
overly bright image areas. The two "Transparent Sky" plugins
replaces bright or dark image areas with transparency for making composite
images. Finally, "B/W v Color Tiling" and "Contrast Checkers"
generate tiling effects, "Zebra Stripe Frame" creates zebra
stripe frames and "Alternating Even Bars" is a two color stripe
maker.
The white vignette filter and two of the gradient sky filters are the
best ones in the collection and really recommended..
Image Effects
Xero Plugins
... consist of four collection of up to 10 freeware plugins each created
with Filter Meister. Collection one contain the following effects: Skycleaner,
Greyscaler, Moonlight, Lithograph, Greytinter, Mistifier, Porcelain, Seasons,
Alienmist. Collection two consists of Artgrain, Aartifax, Clarity, Cubism,
Illustrator, Serious Fog, Softmood, Supersmooth and Ultraviolet. Collection
three contains plugins called bad dream, duochrome, emphasis, fuzzifier,
improver, lineart, pastellise, tekstya and tweaker. Collection four consists
of nine plugins with paint, mosaic, light, blur, posterization, vignette
effects. The effect range varies from color effects, art effects, grain
effects to noise removal and image enhancement. It is a bit hard to get
used to the pink dialog of these plugins, but otherwise they look quite
useful.
Richard Rosenman Filters
... contains several plugins. 3D Sphere Generator generates a 3D sphere
and allows you to configure virtually all of its properties. Color Bar
Generator creates color bar templates for computer and television monitor
calibration. Scanlines creates hard to produce scanlines on your image
to simulate a monitor. Grid Generator creates custom b/w grids and Grain
Generator produces varying types of grain on your image. Tiler makes an
image tileable, Pixelate applies a pixel effect, Halftone creates dot
patterns, Diffuse produces noise diffusion effects, Lens Distortion Correctorperforms
lens corrections, Spherical Map Correctorproduces texture map correction
for spherical texture mapping and Diffuse Glow creates what its name suggests.
Pinch lets you adjust the vertical and horizontal intensity of the pinch
effect independently. The Squarify plugin produces two types of squared
distortion and Evaluate can perform more than 50 image processing operations.
The Portable PixMap Importer/Exporter filter imports and exports PPM,
PGM and PBM images in binary and text format. The Superformula plugin
draws a wide variety of geometric shapes. There is also a commercial plugin
available from him called "Advanced Color Corrector" which has
tons of controls packed on a small interface.
Fotomatic
Cybia offers some free plugins (for Windows) with its new Fotomatic
series. Hi-Spot creates high-contrast B&W effects as well as monochrome
tints, G-Force is for B&W grain effects and Techni-X produces high
contrast effects by bleaching out the midtones. SkyGrad is for tinting
the sky area of photos. It overlays an increasingly transparent, colored
gradient from top to bottom.
Namesuppressed Design
... offers a few Photoshop-compatible plugins with simple but useful
effects. The AUTOINTERLACE plugin is freeware and creates the interlace
effect as seen on television screens. AUTOCHROMATIC and SOFTENER (Win
only) are full-functional shareware plugins that cost only a few dollares
registration fee each. Autochromatic colorizes an image with two user-definable
colors and Softener adds soft, glossy effects to your images. PLAID LITE
is also a inexpensive shareware plugin for creating seamless plaids and
tiling tartan patterns. It extracts colors and patterns from any digital
image to create a color coordinated plaid pattern. The Plaid Lite demo
version is fully functional, but displays several nag screens.
GraphicXtras
... offer a few free plugins on their web site. Inverse Time creates
various negative effect and Gothic 1 adds a dark gloomy Goth effect. Unfortunatelly
some plugins don't show the correct result at the default preview zoom
and some don't display a progress bar during final rendering.
Flaming Pear Freebies
is a collection several simple plugins without a dialog for manipulating
colors and transparency and achieving negative effects. Two new plugins
were added recently to the Flaming Pear Freebies: Solidify fills transparent
areas with the nearest color which is nice for filling in gaps in panoramas.
Ornament turns a photo of a mirrored ball into a 360° panorama in
Quicktime format. Kyoto Color changes color using a special HSL color
space that produces more life-like results for massive hue changes. Anaglyph
Flip exchanges the left-eye and right-eye channels in red/cyan anaglyphic
3D pictures. RGB->HSL converts a normal RGB image to HSL color mode
while still staying in RGB space. HSL->RGB converts the image back
to RGB space when you have finished. AntiGhost is for turning the alpha
channel into solid grays and Make Cube Tiletakes a square image and modifies
it so that six tiles can seamlessly cover a sphere. All of these plugins
have no dialog and controls, so they are immediately applied to the image.
Luce
... is a plugins for creating light beams known as volumetric light.
DC Filters
Improved versions of 14 of the DC Filters (for Windows) are now available.
The old FilterFactory versions were recompiled with FilterMeister which
made several new features possible. These 14 plugins include some nice
pattern, edge and distortion effects.
Ulead Free Plugins
Ulead started offering their commercial Art Texture plugin for free
some time ago. Now they also offer Particle.Plugin and the FantasyWarp
plugin (for Windows) for free, too. Particle.Plugin creates eight natural
particle effects, e.g. smoke, fire, bubbles, clouds and rain. FantasyWarp
takes any image or selection and warps, distorts and twists it into surreal
patterns. Don't miss these plugins!
Rastus
... is a low-cost plugin for Photoshop for Macintosh that creates stochastically
screened bitmaps from halftone images. It uses interpolation for high
quality results and can produce a variety of dot sizes. A Windows version
of Rastus is planned, too.
EyeCandy4000 BevelBoss & MotionTrial and Splat! Edges
Although the EyeCandy4000 demo from AlienSkin already includes three
working filters (Glass, Marble and Shadowlab), you may want to grab two
other ones (BevelBoss and MotionTrial) for free. While you are at it you
can also get the Edges filter from Splat! for free, too. Here's how to
do it: Go to the Macromedia web site at http://www.macromedia.com/downloads/
and download the Fireworks MX trial version (27 MB large). After you installed
it switch to the Fireworks folder and open the Plug-ins sub folder. Now
copy the Splat 8bf and dll files, the EyeCandy 8bf file and the two sub
folders to your default plugin folder. Open the image application you
usually use to apply plugins and voila there they are!
Almathera Plugins
1997 Almathera developed eight Photoshop-compatible plugins. Unfortunately
Almathera was closed down in the same year. Currently these plugins remain
copyright but can be distributed freely in a non-commercial manner. This
means that they can be used for commercial design work, but it is not
allowed to sell the software itself. The Almathera plugins produce shape,
bevel, halo, drop shadow, grayscale, warp, lightning and puddle effects.
Although the interface is outdated and displays wrongly with "Large
Fonts", you will certainly find one or two interesting effects in
this package.
AutoFX Mosaic
... released a second freeware plugin and standalone application called
Mosaic. Mosaic makes your photos look as if they were created out of a
mosaic tile. Photo-realistic depth, variable tile size and color options
give this effect an infinite number of looks. Included with Mosaic are
effect presets, a PDF manual and technical/customer support. The plugin
requires a serial number which can be requested for free from AutoFX.
AutoFX Dreamy Photo
... is a free Photoshop-compatible plugin and standalone tool from AutoFX
that adds a soft-focus effect to photos. The effect is configurable with
seven controls and by using presets. The interface looks like that of
AutoFX's commercial DreamSuite product. The package also includes a PDF
manual and promises technical and customer support. Dreamy Photo requires
a serial number which can be obtained by submitting your e-mail address
from a web form.
Filter Meister
... is a sophisticated filter plugin development tool. Beside the filter
development plugin itself there are some interesting Photoshop-compatible
plugins included that were created with Filter Meister. There is also
a large library of source codes which can even be used with the unregistered
version of Filter Meister and applied to the image. Among the code are
e.g. Adjust Saturation, AFH Beveler 3.0, Patches Factory (animated), Box
Blur, Nirvana, Fractalism and many other examples. Filter Meister is free
to use, but if you want to compile your own plugins, you have to register
it.
AmphiSoft filters
... contains both free and shareware Photoshop-compatible plugins. Included
are free light versions of "Convolution shaman" and "Sorting
shaman" (basic functions like blur, sharpen, edge detection and sharpening
and despeckle with many extra options for image enhancement) which can
be upgraded to full versions by registering. "Thread master"
(cross-shaped smudge effect) and "Out of the noise (noise & diffuse
effects) are free, too. The new and free Simplifier filter provides a
wide range of color\shape simplification operations, resulting in "painterly"
artistic effects. The shareware plugins of this package are called "Metalwork
II" (metallic effects), "ArtiFactor" and "Kinetics
lab" (for creating organic textures by simulating chemical reactions).
DragonFly's Plugins
"Sinedot Shader" creates shaded 3D sinus curves, "Shear"
does a simple shear effect which means that you can specify a line along
which the image is than shifted and "Retrodots" places holes
in a symmetrical pattern on an image. The new "Sinedots II"
now includes enhanced antialias, color support, blend modes, more parameters
for enhanced control, 16bit support and enhanced compatibility. Two import
plugins for .ico and .cur files are available there, too.
VDL Adrenaline Plugins
The Adrenaline series consists of several free plugins and two commercial
ones.The "Harmonix" plugin creates wave lines known from sound
editing tools. With the "Camouflage" plugin you can generate
all kinds of army-style and animal camouflage patterns. "NightVision"
creates realistic night-goggle effects including enhancement, anti-aliased
interlacing, signal noise and feedback. "Snowscape" lets you
add a snow effect to a layer. "Snowflakes" adds snowflakes of
any size and shape to your images.
The Yellownail Collection
consists of 32 Photoshop plugins with the names: 13area, 1stImpact,
3DTile, Adjuster, Alchemist Pro, Ancient Paintings, BambooCraft, Bedlam,
Bokassher, ButColor, ButtonMagic, ClassicalGold, CoolColor, CrazyTile,
CuteMozaic, CycloidDistortion, DeftMove, DemonishCell, DemonishSkin, Eloquency,
Embossher, Enhancer, EqualLevel, FillHarmony, FireWork, FlowerFrame, FlushIt,
FoolishStripe, Gingum. These plugins were created by a Japanese programmer
and offer some interesting effects you shouldn't miss. Some of them apply
directly to the image while other have a Japanese dialog.
Unfortunately getting these plugins can be a bit time consuming and exhausting,
because you have to download them individually and make your way from
the main web page to a description page and from there to the download
page. You have to do that for each of the 32 plugins and everything is
in Japanese language.
Pobelly's Plugins - Currently Down
contain four free Photoshop-compatible plugins that still look a bit
experimental. The "Eliminate Whatever" plugin will change opacity
based on color or brightness. "Whack and Blight" converts color
images to monotone or duotone while weighting of the RGB values. "Meet
the Neighbors" is a 7x7 convolution plugin for playing with different
operators. Finally, "Throbber Thinger" is though to make those
little animations in the corner of browser windows, therefore doing some
basic rotate, copy and fade operations to individual frames of an animation.
SAPPHIRE INNOVATIONS FILTERS
There are 6 SAPPHIRE INNOVATIONS FILTERS (Win/Mac) available at the
PC Resources for Photoshop web site for free. They were created with Filter
Factory and include the following effects: "Blubbled" produces
bubble patterns, "Faded Out" is a simple color filter, "Centre
Spot" does some color distortions, "Threshold Days" creates
a kind of posterize effect, "Grey Shudder" makes the image look
damaged and "Shift Lines" add some colorful line distortions.
The full commercial version includes 63 more filters.
FACTORY OUTPUT - Currently Down
... offers some filters from the Filter Factory Galleries. The collection
contains the filters Channel 5, Chaos Tile, Colour Switcher, Dimensia,
Dynamic Contrast, Edge Saturate, Jumble, Print Screen and Pseudo Gamma.
Cybia's Works Plugins
... are some dozen filters in 6 different formats (Filter Factory, FilterFormula,
FFL, Macintos, Premiere 4.2, Premiere 5) with simple transparency, color,
edge, emboss and grid effects.
2D HyperClouds
... is a filter plugin for generating cloud textures and plasmas. It is
based on Perlin's noise functions and uses the background and foreground
colors to make the clouds palette.
Eye Candy 4000 Free Filters - Glass, Marble and Shadowlab
The Eye Candy 4000 demo includes 3 working filters (Glass, Marble and
Shadowlab).
Mura's Filters
Pole Transform transforms an image to polar coordinates or rectangular
coordinates. You might know this effect from Photoshop. Cloud produces
a seamless cloud effect, Copies blends multiple copies of an image and
Seamless makes an image seamless by wrapping the edges around.
Mark's Page Curl - Currently Down
is a plugin that creates a fantastic page curl effect.
Primus
... is a free feature limited version of Blade Pro. You can use it to
create nice text effects or beveled and textured shapes. It offers 16
presets and a slider for adjusting the bevel height. Unfortunatelly you
can't use other than the 16 textures. You need to register it (for free)
before you can apply the effects.
Axion Lens Flare32 and Glow32
are two plugins for Photoshop-compatible applications and trueSpace 2.
AlienSkin's Xenofex 1.0
2 of the 16 plugins (Crumple & Stain) work in the demo version.
Extensis PhotoText
... applies bold, italic, outline and shadow styles without requiring
the corresponding printer fonts.
Fantastic Machines Tile Tools
You can get 7 of these 21 plugins for creating tileable images and textures
for free.
Filter Formula Example Filters
... are some filters created with Filter Formula.
Web Design
3D Shadow
Lokas Software offers the free 3D Shadow Photoshop-compatible plugin.
It creates various types of 3D shadows from a selection. Settings include
transparency level, perspective, shadow color, position and X/Y/Z angles.
The preview only shows the image at 100% and there is no zoom option.
This makes it very hard to adjust the effect if the selection is almost
as large or larger as the preview.
Fresnel Reflection Plugin
... is a free Filter Factory plugin which creates a transparent sphere
effect. It is available for Windows and as an AFS file for using in Filter
Factory on the Mac.
WebClipper & PhotoHTML
"WebClipper" from Boxtopsoft corrects the color drift from Web
safe colors that often happens during color reduction and allows you to
create hybrid images combining custom and Web safe colors easily. Hybrid
images allow for greater image quality than those color reduced to the
Web safe palette, while still largely eliminating most unwanted dithering
when images are viewed on 8-bit Windows systems. "PhotoHTML"
converts any image to an HTML table. Each pixel in the image becomes a
1 x 1 pixel colored cell in the table.
Background Blur & ScanLines - Currently Down
In addition to some low-cost commercial plugins GlickCreative released
two free 8bf filters. Background Blur smoothes the background of your
images while keeping the high contrast details in focus. ScanLines create
scan lines on any image with complete control.
Rich FX ZoomFX Pro
ZoomFX Pro is a Photoshop plug-in that creates streaming, web-based media
for users to zoom smoothly into areas of detail of high-resolution images,
showcasing the specific areas that you want to display. The result in
an elegant interface that smoothly presents detail in the context of a
larger picture. Best of all, the output is compressed and streamed for
dialup accessibility; a 10 MB photograph, for example, can be presented
in 20-50 KB! The tool is free for non-commercial use.
Direct Download Link: http://download.richfx.com/zoomfx/ZoomFXPro_3_2_01.zip
Gregory Paret's Plugins
"Grids" is a plugin for placing grids on your image, "Polygons"
draws N-sided polygons and a circle, "Color Counter" counts
the colors used in an image, "Selection Outliner and Un-Featherer"
finds the rectangular outline of a selection and has options to remove
feathering from a selection, while the "Gamma Filter" tries
to compensate the fact that the Photoshop Levels control does not do an
arithmetically consistent Gamma adjustment. Finally "HTML Color Tags"
which is only available for Windows displays the current foreground and
background in hexadecimal format.
NRV Bordermania Pro
The Bordermania filters are designed to create a variety of basic borders
and buttons around images and are suited for creating buttons for Web
pages. BorderMania Pro is free for a 30 day evaluation period and after
that a license fee of $10 is required to use the enhanced features. If
you don't register them, the filters continue to work, but lack special
Pro features.
Extensis PhotoBevel
... instantly creates inner and outer bevels on any part of your image
or text. Lets you adjust bevel width, softness, highlight/shadow balance,
intensity, and light direction.
Imagedrome Bevel SE plugin - Currently Down!!!
... for creating bevels and buttons.
Patterns / Textures
Jama 3D, Lattice Composer, Seamless Workshop and Water Ripples
Jama 3D and Lattice Composer are two 8bf plugins for creating cellular
and mesh structures from 2D images, as well as 3D shapes and backgrounds.
Seamless Workshop creates seamless tiles of any image by cross blending
the borders of the image. The disadvantage of this method is that you
can't exactly define the size of the created tile. Like all filter plugins
of this type Seamless Workshop can't crop the produced tile, so you have
to do that yourself manually. Other than that, this plugin is recommended
for everyone who wants to produce seamless textures. Last, buit not least,
Water Ripples creates realistic water ripples and offers a lot of options.
A random settings generator produces unlimited variations of rippled surfaces.
Filter Farm
is a freeware plugin that creates colorful noise effects according to
random algorithms.
Image Enhancement
MonoToner - Not Available ???
. .. from INFINITimages.
Reindeergraphics.com plugins
The "Custom Filter" is an enhanced version of the custom/user
filters that can be found in various image applications. It is actionable,
works on both 8- and 16-bit per channel gray and RGB images, supports
a 7x7 convolution array, accepts real (floating point) numbers for greater
precision and lets you save and open presets. 17 sample presets are already
included. The "Adaptive Equalization" plugin increases the local
contrast of images by reducing overall dynamic range. It is particularly
useful for making small surface marks visible, or revealing detail in
shadow areas while preserving color information. The "Enter Magnification"
filter prompts the user to enter the image magnification (e.g., 1000X),
the dpi of the camera or scanner used (e.g., 300 dpi), and the desired
length of the calibration bar (in micrometers), the program calculates
the length of the bar (reported in pixels). If this is more than 10 pixels
and less than the width of the image, the bar is drawn in the lower right
hand corner and labeled with the length, using the currently defined foreground
and background colors. TabbedText, a free format plug-in from Reindeer
Graphics (for Win/Mac), reads and writes a grayscale images from and to
a tab-delimited text file. The text file can be created and manipulated
in a spreadsheet like Excel or produced with text output from any arbitrary
source.
Sharpen filter
.... is a very simple filter which lets you only adjust the sharpness
intensity. It is a bit superior to the Sharpen filter that is built into
many image editing applications. The download link for this filter is
at the bottom of the page.
PowerRetouche
released some Photoshop-compatible plugins for image enhancement and retouching
that claim to not incur any destruction to the image.The BrightnessEditor
plugin is freeware while others have to be registered to work.
Colleen's Photoshop Fun Pack
5 filter plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop for Macintosh. Rotate Color rotates
the color in the RGB space. Create B/W creates black and white (gray scale)
images from color images. Kwick Mask creates a selection from RGB images.
Adjust Saturation gives you more control over the saturation adjustment.
Modulate Color modulates the HSB value of the image using the mask value.
Variable Blur achieves soft-focus effects very easily.
AIM DeepSpace & Photoshop Plugins
Some plugins with basic image manipulation functions plus 5 other plugins:
The GAMMA filter applies the accurate gamma transfer function, DENSITY
provides density conversion which can be useful in creating a density
mask. SPACE HUNTER is useful as the first step in editing images of unknown
working space and generally for hue, saturation and white-balance corrections.
USM is a Unsharp Mask filter.
Metrix
... is a plugin for adapting two images to each by match the colors of
both images. The adapted images can e.g. be used to create a panorama
image. Only works fine with very similiar images.
Red Prince Flips 'n Rolls, Noise Generator, Whitewash & Pixie Dust
Flips 'n' Rolls is a collection of 19 plugins without dialogs that flip,
roll, invert and reverse the order of bits in the RGB channels. The Noise
Generator plugin creates a noise effect and the Whitewash plugin makes
white colors transparent. The Pixie Dust collection consists of 19 plugins
(only some of them have a dialog) that create various simple contrast,
brightness, monochrome and solarisation effects.
Painting & Drawing
penPalette plugin
.... from nik multimedia is free to registered Wacom tablet customers
who purchased an Intuos2 or Cintiq on or after February 1, 2002 and registered
it. If you own a registered Wacom tablet, but purchased it prior to February
1, 2002 penPalette is available for $50 as a limited-time discount. penPalette
allows Wacom graphics tablet users to selectively apply digital image
enhancements using the pen to precisely control both the location and
the amount of photographic filter effect applied.
Fantastic Machines' Paint Engine
... has different presets for turning photos into paintings.
Wacom Pen Tools
... for working with a Wacom tablet.
3D
Normal Map Generation Filter & PhotoShop DXT Compression Plugin
Nvidia offer two free plugins for Windows. The Normal Map Generation Filter
allows you to convert any image or layer to a normal map. It also includes
a 3D preview with per-pixel lighting to view the generated normal map.
The PhotoShop DXT Compression Plugin lets you read and write compressed
or uncompressed .dds files. The plugins require DirectX8 and msvcr70.dll
to run. Both can be downloaded from their web site.
Rasterizer Plug
... is a plug-in for Photoshop 5.0 or later that renders hi-resolution
screenshots of 3D models included in Infinity MetaFiles directly onto
a Photoshop layer with transparency.
CALLISTO - Currently Down!!!
is a shareware plugin for Adobe Photoshop that allows Photoshop users
to create terrains and spheroidal objects and also import and render 3DMF
models. When using Callisto you can manipulate 3DMF models on the screen
and make adjustments to lighting and background before rendering it out.
The terrain-making capabilities of Callisto allow you to convert any 2D
image to a "height map" or 3D terrain with full Phong shading
and control over height. The terrains you create can be swiveled, moved,
enlarged/reduced, etc., just like any 3D model. An advanced feature of
Callisto is its planetizing feature, which allows you to create complex,
organic objects easily, based on 2D input. Callisto also allows you to
apply texture maps to terrains and spheroids in order to create objects.
Callisto is fully functional and lets you save your output either in 2D
(at 320x240 pixels) or as a 3DMF model. Users who pay the shareware fee
can output 2D renderings at resolutions up to 2560 x 1920 pixels.
Various
xMeta
fnord offers the free xMeta package (for Macintosh), a set of three simple
plugins for exporting metadata from Photoshop in raw binary form. It can
export ICC Profiles, EXIF camera data and IPTC press information. ICC
Profiles are of particular interest, as they can be added to the ColorSync
profiles folder.
12bits, Life & FilterFoundry
12bits reduces images to 4096 colors and "Life" implements Conway's
Life cellular automaton which produces patterns that own certaincharacteristics
of life. Filter Foundry is basically a Filter Factory plugin clone. It
works with Photoshop 3 - 7 on Power Macs (OS X, Classic, OS 9 and earlier),
68K Mac and under Windows. That means that it supports more platforms
than the original FilterFactory from Adobe who dropped its development
years ago. The current beta version already lets you open AFS file, but
not create plugins. The author asks for a donation if you use this product.
Digimarc Watermark Plugin
Digiamrc offers a free 1.7 upgrade for their watermarking plugin which
is delivered with many image applications for Mac and Windows. The Digimarc
plugin enable you to detect, embed, and read Digimarc watermarks with
many leading image editing applications.
Type Chameleon
... from Jintek is a free Photoshop plugin for creating type effects.
It produces wildly distorted type on a path, circle, arc or trapezoid
as well as rotates, skews and distorts shapes and adds borders, fills,
and drop shadows. The result can be directly rasterized and merged with
the image or saved as an EPS file if you want to keep the type resolution
independent . The EPS file can then be copied into any Photoshop layer,
where it will adapt to the resolution of the rest of the Photoshop file.
Type Chameleon requires Photoshop 4.0 or later and Adobe Type Manager
3.5 or later.
Vischeck
... shows you how things look to someone who is colorblind. You can try
Vischeck online, but you can also download plugins for Photoshop or for
ImageJ to run. Many pictures, documents and web pages are hard to read
for colorblind people (up to 5% of the population) because they cannot
distinguish some colors. Vischeck lets designers check their work for
colorblind visibility. It is also interesting to anyone who is just plain
curious about what the world looks like if you are color blind.
Pro Canvas & WallPampered
Pro Canvas is an automation plugin designed to enhance and replace the
existing Canvas command in Adobe Photoshop. While providing you with all
of the standard Canvas options (in Absolute mode), Pro Canvas also adds
a powerful new Relative mode that allows you to add or subtract from each
side independently and simultaneously.
WallPampered is an automation plugin (.8li) for Adobe Photoshop only,
which allows you to set your Windows desktop wallpaper instantly from
within Photoshop itself. When the plugin is installed you activate it
from the Automate sub menu found of the File menu in Photoshop. Both plugins
are Shareware or Honorware and have no nags or time limits.
Panorama Tools
... allow to generate, edit and transform many kinds of panoramic images.
The Photoshop 7.0 Scripting plugin: Windows Download / Mac Download
... lets you automate repetitive tasks and key workflows in Adobe Photoshop
7.0. It lets you write scripts using JavaScript, Visual Basic or AppleScript
to do certain tasks in Photoshop automatically. Almost 50 sample scripts
are already included with the package to get the user started.
Scripting means in this case that Photoshop is completely controlled by
an external program. Unlike Photoshop Actions you have to create these
scripts or programs in an external development environment, which means
that more work and knowledge is needed, but greater flexibility is offered
in return. So this Scripting plugin is something for software developers
rather than for designers. Designers without programming knowledge should
stick to Photoshop Actions instead.
Image Format / Importing
Electric Image, ICO, MacPaint, Paint Shop Pro, SGI, GBA Format Plugins
.... let you open EI images, Windows ICO, MacPaint, Paint Shop Pro 5-7,
SGI and GameBoy Advanced files in Photoshop under Windows and Mac OS 9/X.
Olympus RAW Import Plugin
It allows you to white balance photos by selecting a color from the preview,
but you can also automatically apply the camera settings or import the
photo without any adjustment. Download the most recent version from the
Olympus Web Site.
Dempsey's Olympus RAW File Import Plugin
Paul Dempsey offers an Olympus RAW File (.ORF) import plugin (for Windows)
as well as a standalone application at his web site. The plugin offers
options for Color Balance, Gamma Correction, Auto Levels, Inversion and
B/W. The standalone ORF.exe program is a much later development than the
plugin and therefore includes many more features. ORF.exe offers separate
histograms and more scaling (color balance) options. There is also an
accompanying ORFDump tool for recreating thumbnail (.THM) files and extracting
EXIF information to a text file.
FitsPlug
... is a Photoshop-compatible format plugin that offers support for FITS,
a format originally defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
and later adopted by the NASA to store and interchange astronomical data.
FITS has become popular among amateur astronomers, because it is a convenient
way of exchanging images between different applications and platforms.
j2k and SuperPNG
j2k (Macintosh) is a Photoshop plugin for reading and writing the JPEG
2000 file format, the successor to JPEG. Also known as JP2, JPEG 2000
uses wavelet compression to create small images with less objectionable
artifacts than JPEG's DCT compression. It also features: Alpha transparency,
Lossless compression mode and 16-bit color. SuperPNG (Win/Mac) is a plugin
for saving PNG ("ping") files. SuperPNG is also much faster
than Adobe's PNG plugin and supports: Variable Compression, Gamma Correction
and Meta Data saving.
UnWired or WBMP file format plugin
... lets you quickly and easily save wireless bitmap (WBMP) files e.g.
for use in WAP sites. The plugin can be used with Photoshop, Paint Shop
Pro or any other application that supports .8bi file format plugins.
The ECW v2.0 file format plugin
... enables you to read and compress Enhanced Compressed Wavelet (ECW)
v2.0 images from within Photoshop. The Open Standard ECW technology is
a large-image compression technology that enables applications to compress
imagery. The plugin allows reading compressed ECW images of any size.
However, as Photoshop has a limit of 32,000 x 32,000 pixel for image size,
the plug-in will automatically reduce the image size to less than this
size if you open a larger ECW file. You can create compressed ECW images
by using File->Save to the ECW format from within Photoshop. This plugin
restricts the image size being compressed to 500MB.
The PRINT Image Matching Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop
.... is available on the Photoshop 7.0 CD and for Photoshop 6.0 and Adobe
Photoshop Elements 1.0 on the PRINT Image Matching web site. It is designed
to import JPEG files containing P.I.M. information and retains the P.I.M.
effects during the importing process. This PRINT Image Matching Plug-in
meets the needs of many digital photographers who want to be able to import
an image into Photoshop and not lose the valuable P.I.M. data. To use
the PRINT Image Matching technology you need the combination of a PRINT
Image Matching-enabled digital camera, printer and software.
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