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Image
Correction & Photographic Effects
Neat
Image - designed to reduce visible noise and grain in digital photos
Retoucher - Enhancer - Chameleon -
Stamp
- useful restoration tools
Image Doctor
- fix your photos with this popular quality plug-in
VariFocus -
RedEyePro - ScatterLight - LensDoc - Perspective - useful filters
Correct+Apply Color - Sharpen+Soften - Shift+Grain - good
range of enhancements
CoCo - nColor Converter - LensTools - PhotoTools
- aimed at professional users
AutoEye - Mystical Lighting
- Tint:Tone:Color - amazing set of cool effects
Portrait & Family - Outdoor - from
the established optical filter company
Photographic - IR Film
- Smart
Sharpen - Highlight
- Shadow
- White Balance
I2E Image Enhancement - as
used by professional photolabs to enhance quality
55mm -
Light - Digital Film Lab - Ozone
- simulate
traditional optical effects
EyeFidelityTools -
single
filter with a wide range of basic correction features
Intellihance
Pro - correct and enhance your photos with this established tool
FocusFixer - NoiseFixer - ShadowFixer - TrueBlur
- help
fix your photos quickly
Mr.
Contrast - Melancholytron - enhance your photos with these effects
UnDistort - correct
perspective distortion and chromatic aberration
Focus
Magic - sharpen
your photos with the plug-in or standalone version
DRI Pro - ISOx
Pro - SR Pro - WP
Pro - SI Pro - Intellisharpen - nice set of tools
AutoCorrect
- AutoSelect - AutoFocus - PhotoFixLens - and other good filters
Color Equalizer/Correction -
White Balance/Point - DOF -
Soft-Focus - and more
Shadow Illuminator - physics-based
image enhancement for the digital age
Foto
Fix Optimizer - control lots of essential editing sliders from one
dialog
Digital ROC - Digital SHO - Digital GEM
- professional
image correction tools
DCE
Tools - a
collection of 7 professional plug-ins aimed at image-correction
Softener -
give your photos a soft dreamy look with this quality filter
Color Efex
Pro - Sharpener Pro - high-quality
and genuinely useful plug-in sets
VirtualPhotographer
- one of the best free plug-ins with good traditional effects
Local Contrast -
Contrast Mask - free filters to help you enhance image detail
iCorrect
Portrait/EditLab Pro - professional quality colour correction
NoiseNinja
- effective and productive solution for removing noise and grain
PhotoKit - Sharpener -
Color - nice
selection of photographic effects
Power
Retouche Series - some
of my favourite quality photo-correction tools
Bleach ByPass
- Process FX - GradFilter - Beautifier - Fog - HotPixel
OptiPix
- a suite of plug-ins aimed at enhancing digital photographs
Advanced
Color Corrector -
Lens Corrector Pro - loads of features at a low price
IrisFilter
- emulate a true depth-of-field effect
using this virtual lens filter
ColourWasher - FocalBlade - LightMachine
- a quality range of correction
tools
Color Pilot - specifically designed
for quick and easy colour correction
Grain Surgery -
intelligent noise
manipulation effects for digital images
Recreate
Traditonal Mono Styles
Exposure - recreate
black & white photographic styles
India
Ink - produces some very nice BW halftone pattern effects
BW
Workflow - high quality filter that works slightly different to others
Convert To
B/W Pro - one of the better commercial mono plug-ins available
Autochromatic -
choose 3 colours for light, midtone and dark areas
VirtualPhotographer
- great
free plug-in with some very nice mono presets
B/W
Conversion - one of the better free filters for traditional photo styles
BW
Studio - high quality commercial plug-in with plenty of features
B&W Pro 2
- cost effective solution for your black & white needs
BW
Conversion - easy to use fully-functional shareware
B&W
Filter Series - replicate the tonal qualities of traditional filmstock
OldMovie -
give
your images an authentic old look with this great product
Paint
& Other Artistic Effects
Paint
Engine - still the
very best free paint effects filter available
Virtual Painter
- turn
any digital photo into a work of art with this plug-in set
Sketcher - creates
complex and impressive hand-drawn style results
Deep Paint - advanced paint application available as
a plug-on or standalone
Paint
Alchemy - one
of the early paint tools but still capable of nice effects
Generate
Or Convert Textures
Textures
- another nice set of filters that are capable of producing useful
images
MapZone
- complex pattern modeler for creating and editing textures
SymmetryShop
- allows you to create repeating patterns from any image
RealTexture Tools - BumpTexture
Tools - Upright - various
texture effects
Texture Anarchy - Backdrop
Designer - cool
filters with nice range of features
Tessela - Check Out
- generate
kaleidoscopic and chess style patterns
Filter Forge - a
great new texture generator in development with lots of features
Tesselation - Hue
and Cry - create seamless tiles and generate textures
FabricWeaver -
dynamically
generate thousands of different woven patterns
PhotoWeave - PhotoRepeat
- handy filters for texture creation
L&K Filters -
a small set of free plug-ins for basic pattern creation
Plaid
Lite - turns any image into a repeating weaved fabric style pattern
Image Styles
- create
unlimited seamless background patterns very quickly
Jama
- Lattice
- Texturation
- Craquelure
- Plasteroid - Emblazer
- Seamless
HyperTyle -
sophisticated
plug-in based on surface, texture and edge settings
Terrazzo -
convert any image into repeating tiles using several different options
Specialist
Filters For Transparency
Selection -
flexible control over selections using adjustable maps
KnockOut -
one of the established masking plug-ins
Primatte - a powerful
tool and probably one of the best currently available
Mask Pro -
another one that has been around for some time
AutoMask - helps
you mask difficult areas such as hair and fur
MaskWarrior - automatically
generate professional masks and paths
TransluSense - make certain
colours in your image transparent
Fluid Mask - fast and effective
masking with easy to understand interface
Website
Preperation & Compression Tools
ProJPEG
- PhotoGIF - ImageVice - ColorSafe - WebClipper
- filters
for web editors
CyberView
Image - advanced
interactive JPEG image compressor
The JPEG Wizard - ImagePress JPEG2000
- high-quality compression tools
DeJPEG - freeware plug-in for helping to remove JPEG compression
artifacts
3D
Effects Within 2D Programs
Verant
- Model
Shop - create
natural elements and 3D within Photoshop
HotText - 3D Dizzy - QuickSpace
- provides a
variety of 3D model options
TypeCaster
- one of the older tools for 3D text but still OK for basic use
3D Invigorator -
quickly turn clipart or fonts into 3D
rendered models
Plug-Ins
For Various Other Purposes
MezzoForce
Ice - free plug-in
for creating liquid style ice effects
Deconvolve - Fourier Transform
- Digitization - forensic science resources
Good Vibrations -
Tweed Frame - plus a few other interesting filters
Eye
Candy - Xenofex - Splat - popular quality filter sets with plenty of options
Kenetics
Lab - Xylograph - Simplifier
- nice selection of various filters
Shadow
- Cutline
- EtchTone - Velociraptor - Measurement - plus more
Vignetting
Remover - for enthusiasts of astro-photography
DreamSuite Gel -
DS Series 1 & 2 - Photo/Graphic Edges - fantastic
Page
Curl - Puzzle Pro - nicely
designed interfaces
Flare
Effects - Glow N
Sparkle - good
quality and value for money
KPT
Collection - the
current owner of these established filter packs
BoarderFade - DeepDream -
Fire - Ice - BeyondEdger - plus
many more freebies
Universe
Image Creator - excellent
set of filters for creating spaceart images
DE Euphoria - a
collection of 20 quality plug-ins
Aurora - create CG sky
images within Photoshop with this filter
Sinedots - Retrodots -
Shear - a
few interesting freeware plug-ins
Channel Colorizer - Silhouette
Maker - plus more Filter Factory plug-ins
Page Rolls - Other Econym
- HFGrey - basic
but interesting filters
PhotoTools -
PhotoFrame - pxl
SmartScale - useful production tools
TileTools - set of 21 filters
with tile, emboss, carve, swirl and blur effects
SuperBladePro - Flood -
LunarCell - SolarCell - Flexify - Glitterato - Polymerge
Flair - Lenscare
- two
interesting and fairly useful effects
Andrew's
Plugins Complete - vast
selection of over 200 stunning plug-in filters
PhotoSpray - Squizz - Textissimo -
XFile - PhotoLight
- MagicFrames - and
more
Filters
Unlimited - allows you to run thousands of effects within a single dialog
Noise Reduction - Unsharp Mask - Gaussion
Blur - Chromex -
Squeeze - and more
Foto Frame - Textures - Simplifier - Edge
Art - more handy free plug-in effects
Kelby's Notes -
handy
plug-in which contains 100 most asked Photoshop questions
Color Swap
Deluxe - a
very quick and easy way to modify your image colours
Krusy's FX
Vol I - Vol II - Vol
III - three
sets of interesting freeware plug-in packs
Thredgeholder Pro - Chalkaholic
Pro - Xpose - low cost and free versions
Genuine
Fractals - generate
superior quality enlargements with this plug-in tool
Artistic Effects - 3D
Maker - 3D Shadow - useful
effects with nice interface dialogs
LucisArt - image
processing software containing a variety of artistic effects
Mehdi
Freeware - some
of the very best and useful freeware plug-ins available
BorderMania - PhotoSwizzle
- long-established
button and border creators
Fire - Lens Pro - Engraver - Digitalizer -
Alpha Strip - and
more
Gradient Blur - Lens Corrector - more good
freebies from this developer
Lab Overlayer - Variable Blurrinator
- Mono Renditionizer - a few nice filters
Flips n' Rolls - Noise
Generator - Whitewash -
a selection of
various effects
Fovea Pro - IPTK - Focus Extender -
Freebies - sophisticated image processing
3D Sphere
Pro - Freeware
Filters -
nice series which you should check out
Multiple Exposure - easy to use fully-functional shareware
Chromassage - PhotoCell -
ScanTastic - PhotoSpot
- for scan, print and more
Path Styler Pro -
use paths to create super sharp
bevels with this quality plug-in
SilverFast
- sophisticated range
of tools for use with scanners and digital cameras
PM Rubber - PM
ArtGallery - warp your photos or create artistic image
styles
Harry's
Filters - Plugin
Galaxy - Photo
Freebies -
great selection of various effects
Unplugged - NightVision - Halftone - Camouflage -
Harmonix -
SnowScape/Flakes
Vizros - create sophisticated three dimensional page
wrapping effects
Segmation
- transforms images into vectors, contours and patterns
Xero
- four packs of very cool freeware filters available for download here
Software
Tools & Resources For Filter Programmers
Apply
here for access to the official Photoshop SDK downloads
Photoshop SDK for Delphi - plug-in development wizard
and host component
Filter
Formula - Windows-based
tool for creating your own plug-in filters
FilterMeister - home
of the most advanced plug-in creator for Windows users
Learn more about
FilterMeister and contribute to the documentation
Filter Foundry
- the Filter Factory alternative
compiler for Mac and Windows
Handy
Programs To Help Manage Your Plug-Ins
Photoshop
SpeedUp - free utility which allows you to disable filters
Plugin Manager -
the original tool for filter users, although quite old now
Plugin
Commander - currently
the leading utility of it's kind
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