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The onOne Software Plug-In Suite 4 for Photoshop CS2 and CS3 is the latest upgrade to the award winning Plug-In Suite product line that combines several of onOne Software's individual Photoshop plug-ins into a highly affordable package. Plug-In Suite 4 includes full versions of the following onOne Software products:
Genuine Fractals 5 Print Pro
Genuine Fractals 5 Print Pro can resize digital images over 1,000% with no loss of detail or sharpness. It allows poster-sized prints to be made from almost any image.
PhotoTools 1.0 Professional Edition
PhotoTools 1.0 Professional Edition is a flexible yet powerful Photoshop plug-in that utilizes the power of Photoshop Actions to provide a complete library of effects created by Kevin Kubota and Jack Davis. These effects may be previewed, stacked and blended together just like filters over a camera lens to improve creativity. Its built-in batch processing engine improves photographers productivity.
PhotoFrame 3.1 Professional Edition
PhotoFrame 3.1 Professional Edition can be used to create stunning border and edge effects right out of the darkroom. Select from thousands of edges, including authentic film and artistic mediums.
Mask Pro 4.1
Mask Pro 4.1 can easily create high-quality masks and selections even from tough subjects like hair and glass, making it easy to place a subject in a new background.
PhotoTune 2.2
PhotoTune 2.2 is a plug-in that provides professional quality color correction in an easy to use plug-in.
FocalPoint 1.0
FocalPoint 1.0 is a new plug-in that simulates selective focus or tilt-shift lenses, helping photographers selectively blur and/or vignette an image to focus the viewers attention.
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Twisting Pixels - Photoshop Plugins & Filters
Whether you're looking for a memorable portfolio piece, an attention-grabbing set of enhancements, or an artistic masterpiece, Twisting Pixels is your source for a wide variety of Photoshop filters and plugins.
They're ideal for use on the web, for multimedia and in printed publications. These filters are also very popular with photographers who use them to create digital backdrops and digital backgrounds for their photos.
Twisting Pixels' collections offer full technical and customer support. Their products include a stand-alone application, as well as a plugin that works with Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.
You can download a trial version of any of the following collections from the Twisting Pixels website. Note that the trial versions will have a watermark that won't disappear until you enter a valid serial number from product purchase.
Also look out for a special bundled offer, featuring all of the Twisting Pixels filter collections packaged together for purchase at a combined rate!
Below are some mini reviews of the following products: PixelCreation Visual Effects & Tonal Filters Collection, PixelPaper Photoshop Plugin Filters, PixelPack Visual Effect Filters, and the Twisting Pixels Free PixelPack Photoshop Demo.
New Photoshop Plugin 'ArtStudioPro' From Twisting Pixels
Twisting Pixels has announced ArtStudioPro, a simple Photoshop plugin that will convert photos into paintings and drawings. ArtStudioPro includes over 30 special effect filters that help users create the look of a masterpiece with just a few clicks of the mouse. It's easy to create a natural-looking media by simply loading an image and choosing an effect media such as Colored Pencil, Crayon, Marker, Technical Pen or Watercolor.
ArtStudoPro includes 25 Supporting Effects: Colored Pencil Brush, Colored Pencil Fill, Colored Pencil Inside, Colored Pencil Outside, Colored Pencil Outline, Colored Pencil Shade Outline, Crayon Brush, Crayon Inside, Crayon Outside, Marker Brush, Marker Outside, Marker Strokes, Paper Texture, Restore Original, Technical Pen Brush, Technical Pen Outline, Underlayment, Watercolor Base, Watercolor Blend Strokes, Watercolor Brush, Watercolor Details, Watercolor Dry Strokes, Watercolor Wash, & Watercolor Wet Strokes.
PixelCreation Collection - Visual Effects & Tonal Filters
18 visual effect and tonal filters, all tinged with a celestial feeling. From twinkling stars to fluffy clouds, Pixel Creation provides you with layers for combining individual effects and presets for quick and easy results. You will get layers for combining effects, presets for a quick and easy start, as well as full technical and customer support.
There are 9 wonderful visual effect filters in PixelCreation, all of which can be used in conjunction with each other to create a truly unique image.
MoonRing - you'll be able to recreate the appearance of ice crystals refracting from the light of the moon, in keeping with the folklore dictate that a ring around the moon signifies that bad weather is on its way.
Altocumulus – you'll add delicately soft clouds to your sky. You can drop them between cumulus clouds, combining the two using a built-in layer feature. Clouds can be changed into night ones by adding black and gray to your color gradient slider, enabling you to create a mysterious nighttime moon scene.
Celestial Shapes - you can form stars into any shape, simply by selecting the included grayscale clipart or by importing your own. Instantly, you'll see your grayscale art turned into a star formation, either as glowing orbs or twinkling lights.
Constellation – you can combine Northern Lights, Starry Night and Constellation together, again using the built-in layers feature. Included are the zodiac signs, as well as a selection of other popular constellations.
Cumulus – you'll be able to shape fluffy clouds into your desired size and thickness that you can then place in any chosen area.
Milkyway – you transform your simple starry night into a celestial experience by adding a milkyway to the scene. You can then colorize it, add star clusters or even planets.
MoonGlow – when you apply this filter, a glowing moon will instantly appear in your scene. Phases of the moon are available to reflect each night of the month, as well as halos, glows and even an eclipse.
Starry Night – you can apply little bursts of colorful stars to your night sky, using glowing hot orbs or twinkling rays of light. You can mix both star types to create a heavenly effect.
Northern Lights – you'll add a touch of drama to your sky with an aurora of color. Simply draw a path using a pen tool and watch a ribbon of lights render before your eyes. You can then adjust the length, face, apply curve and variation using a slider or colorize using a gradient color picker.
In addition to the visual effect filters, PixelCreation also offers 9 tonal enhancement filters that can be applied to the filters or used alone. These provide yet another avenue for your celestial creativity, as the design possibilities are endless when you consider the possible effects that can be achieved using any combination of these 18 filters.
- Aura
- Color Intensity
- Colorize
- Glint
- Luminescent Brush
- Tonal Blur
- Tonal Intensity
- Tonal Sharpness
- Vibrancy
PixelPaper Photoshop Plugin Filters
Pixel Paper also provides you with layers for combining effects, as well as presets for quick results. This collection features 7 realistic paper effects. You'll be able to turn your images into folded, crumpled and crinkled pieces of paper.
Bend – this effect allows you to assume an angular shape to your image. You can easily choose a different direction by drawing a line across your design project. A line drawn downwards will cause the bend to go toward the right, while a line drawn upwards will bend your image to the left.
Crinkle – this lets you form wrinkles and ripples directly on your image.
Crumple – you can crush together or press your image into a crumpled piece of paper, adding interesting texture to your design.
Crunch – this effect is easy to manipulate, giving your image the appearance of crunched corners and sides.
Curl - you can raise and turn up the sides of your image. A light source will add highlights and shadows for a realistic appearance.
Fold – make your image more compact by doubling or bending it over in parts. You can choose how many vertical or horizontal folds that you want by moving a slider.
Wave – this effect creates the illusion of your image moving freely back and forth — or up and down in the air. Use perspective to make it seem as though your image is branching out into the wind or turn it down low to give it the appearance of warped paper.
Get special bundles, and free demos at the Twisting Pixels site.
PixelPack I - Visual Effect Filters
Pixel Pack is a collection of 5 pretty amazing visual effect filters. They can be used in combination with each other, giving your images incredibly photorealistic effects.
Stain – put any kind of cup stain on your image, ranging from coffee cups, wine glasses, water tumblers or Kool-aid sippers. Use the ellipse tool to place the stains or create your own shapes with a selection or mask.
Extrude – this effect give the perception of protruding type or shapes. The 3D lighting feature can create a single shadow, or multiple extruded shadows from any height.
LabelMaker – truly looks like type pushed through plastic, from an old-school labelmaker. Use the original label font or choose one of your own. Perspective curls up the ends and lighting adds highlights to the plastic & shadows.
RockCandy – this effect creates ultra-realistic 3D shapes out of your mask or selection, providing you with the ultimate 3D Bevel effect. You can create everything from Glass to Aqua to solid rocks. The refraction feature creates an illusion of light and reflection turning or bending, which creates an optical density component in your RockCandy effect. Use the included bumpmap and surface patterns to give many texture combinations. Multiple light sources and light colors will let you create beautiful highlights and translucent shadows.
Texturizer – this effect gives your image any desired texture through the process of blending through multiple bumpmaps, textures and lighting.
Get special bundles, and free demos at the Twisting Pixels site.
PixelSampler - Free Photoshop Filters Demo Pack
PixelSampler is a collection of visual effects for those of you seeking to achieve realistic film style results. You can adjust colors, light or tones in the included presets or create your own effect commands. PixelSampler gives you a wide variety of image enhancement options, all of which can be achieved without ever setting foot into a darkroom. Perhaps most appealing is that PixelSampler can be downloaded absolutely free from Twisting Pixels' website!
Tonal Streak – this effect streaks your image using either a motion blur or rotational blur. It will automatically streak the image farther wherever the image is brighter, giving the effect of a shaken camera.
Black and White – this automatically uses a green and yellow filtering system, which reduces the transmission of blue light. Skies appear darker and clouds stand out more. Orange and red filters are used to lighten tones and darken those of other colors, which produce dramatically darkened skies.
Contrasting Levels – this effect captures the details lost in the shadows. It also reduces the brightness range of an overly contrasted image, by subduing the bright areas of sky, water, snow and sand, which brings the light back to a normal range.
Duotone – creates precise tones comprising two color choices. You can use brushes to paint away parts that you don't want included in your image.
Starlight – add flare to your area. This effect will render brilliant points of light from your image highlights.
Starpoint – this effect is controlled by your touch, as you can easily drop a starpoint to your image to better showcase a brightly sunny day or a romantically twinkling night sky.
Grain – gives your image the look of exposed and processed silver halides left behind on film emulsion. Use this effect to give a unique grain shape that aligns better than its conventional equivalent.
Monotone – creates all the hues, tints and shades of a single color. As a result, the energy is more subtle, thanks to a reduced color contrast.
Warm Cool – use this on color images to give either a cooling or warming effect. Cooling filters are pale blue and will warm a pale straw color, while warming filters will prevent a cold feeling on pictures taken on overcast days or in shady areas on sunny days.
Get special bundles, and free demos at the Twisting Pixels site.
Twisting Pixels Plugins & Filters - Summary
I suggest you visit the Twisting Pixels site and have a closer look at this collection of wonderful plugins and filters, and make sure to download the free PixelSampler to get a better idea of this product, which I find to be easy to learn and fun to use.
The pricing is very competitive to what's already out there, and Twisting Pixels seem to be on a development kick, with promises of lots and lots of new plugins and filters coming soon.
Another nice touch with the Twisting Pixels products is the way that the filters are all bundled together, making them much easier to locate and select inside of your Photoshop menus. So download and have fun!
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SiteGrinder 2 - Photoshop Plugin
There often seems to be a strict division of labor within the world of web design and development. Creative professionals tend to stick to the Photoshop domain, while those well-versed in scripting are left to the task of implementing their work. Indeed, the two realms are quite different from each other, to which any of us even vaguely familiar with either can easily attest.
Essentially, Photoshop is a no-holds-barred design studio, offering the artist a seemingly endless array of creative options. On the other hand, HTML, CSS, Java and the like follow strict rules of engagement, requiring the developer to take any number of esoteric concerns into consideration in order to ensure that designs are properly displayed on the web.
Turn Photoshop Into A Complete Web Design Tool
SiteGrinder 2 seeks to bridge this gap between design and development. Basically, this program turns Photoshop into an easy-to-use and fully functional web design tool. With SiteGrinder 2, designers will now have the freedom to totally let their creativity loose and then, without skipping a beat, transfer their designs to the web. Bringing esthetic concerns together with more practical considerations, this program is an amazingly powerful tool that would make a fantastic addition to any web designer's bag of tricks.
Generate Your Web Pages Directly From Photoshop
By generating web pages directly from Photoshop, you'll be able to spend much more time on the creative end of the spectrum, since you'll know right off the bat how well particular designs will translate to the web. No more going back to the Photoshop drawing board after getting a phone call from your development team, telling you that what you had envisioned doesn't have a chance of being displayed on the web. You can immediately visually and interactively test your designs, which permits you to then make changes to either esthetics or functions while it's still relatively early on in the design process.
Pricing and Availability
Mac OS X and Windows versions of the SiteGrinder unlockable demo are available now via download. SiteGrinder 2 can be ordered from Media Lab's online store.
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An inspirational and user-friendly guide to creative image editing, Photoshop CS2: Essential Skills provides direction for photographers and designers alike who have ventured into the realm of the 'digital darkroom.' The book offers a progressive curriculum to guide you through Photoshop with a series of clear, step-by-step projects designed to place knowledge into a practical context.
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• A range of presets (including layer styles, curves, shapes and gradients)
• Camera RAW files
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For a free sample chapter see our How To Sharpen An Image In Photoshop tutorial.
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