{"id":15646,"date":"2008-12-15T08:14:07","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T08:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/12\/64-bit-plug-ins-now-arriving.html"},"modified":"2008-12-15T08:14:07","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T08:14:07","slug":"64_bit_plug_ins_now_arriving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/15\/64_bit_plug_ins_now_arriving\/","title":{"rendered":"64-bit plug-ins now arriving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">I&#8217;ve recently fielded a few questions about if\/when various popular plug-ins will be updated to run inside Photoshop CS4 when running in 64-bit mode.&#160; (On 64-bit Windows OSes, you can install both 32- and 64-bit flavors of CS4 in parallel.&#160; Existing plug-ins will run just fine in the 32-bit version, but to run in the 64-bit one they need to be updated.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Good news: the following developers have already updated their plug-ins: <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li><strong>Imagenomic&#8217;s<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagenomic.com\/pt.aspx\">Portraiture<\/a> &#8220;eliminates the tedious manual labor of selective masking and pixel-by- pixel treatments to help you achieve excellence in portrait retouching.&#8221; <\/li>\n<li><strong>Alien Skin&#8217;s<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/alienskin.com\/bokeh\/index.aspx\">Bokeh<\/a> &#8220;provides many techniques for realistic blurring and altering the mood of a scene, from changing the depth of field to placing a radial sweet spot and adding a vignette.&#8221;&#160; and Meanwhile up-sizing tool <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alienskin.com\/blowup\/index.aspx\">BlowUp 2<\/a> &#8220;uses an innovative algorithm that temporarily converts pixels to a vector representation which results in perfectly smooth, crisp edges&#8221;.  <\/li>\n<li><strong>Digital Anarchy&#8217;s<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalanarchy.com\/toonPS\/tutes.html\">Toon It<\/a> is &#8220;a reliable, easy way to give photographs, still images and video frames that sought-after cartoon look. Turn your image into cartoon shading and outlines while preserving the details in human faces and figures.&#8221;&#160; The company has also updated <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalanarchy.com\/knollPS\/main.html\">Knoll Light Factory 3.0<\/a>, the lens flare-making toolkit &#8220;originally designed by Photoshop co-creator John Knoll to generate Photon Torpedoes in the Star Trek movies.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>ABSoft&#8217;s<\/strong> noise-reducing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatimage.com\/win\/photoshop\/index.html\">Neat Image<\/a> is&#8221;indispensable in low-light (indoors, night, no-flash, astro) and high-speed (sport, action, children) photography.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>PixelGenius&#8217;s<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixelgenius.com\/photokit\/index.html\">PhotoKit<\/a> is &#8220;a photographer&#8217;s Plug-in toolkit comprising effects that offer accurate digital replications of analog photographic effects.&#8221;&#160; Their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixelgenius.com\/sharpener\/index.html\">PhotoKit Sharpener<\/a> is a &#8220;Photoshop Plug-in that provides a complete Sharpening Workflow \u2013 capture to creative to output sharpening.&#8221;&#160; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixelgenius.com\/CS4-Beta\/index.php\">64-bit versions<\/a> are in beta. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topazlabs.com\/topazlabs\/03products\/topaz_adjust\/\">Topaz Adjust<\/a> &#8220;makes it easy to creatively adjust photo exposure, detail, and color for photo correction and effects.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><b>HDRSoft&#8217;s<\/b> tone-mapping <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hdrsoft.com\/download\/pluginwin.html\">Photomatix<\/a> lets you &#8220;reveal highlight and shadow details in an HDR image created from multiple exposures.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><b>Artlandia<\/b> has <a href=\"http:\/\/artlandia.com\/company\/press\/pr\/CS4_Updates.html\">updated<\/a> their product line for CS4.  <a href=\"http:\/\/artlandia.com\/products\/SymmetryShop\/v2.html\">SymmetryShop 2<\/a> lets you &#8220;easily make more sophisticated patterns, from a greater variety of objects, faster than ever before.&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<li><b>PictureCode&#8217;s<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.picturecode.com\/\">Noise Ninja<\/a> is &#8220;a must-have tool for anyone shooting in low-light or fast-action situations &#8212; including news, sports, wedding, and event coverage.&#8221;  The 64-bit version is in beta and can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.picturecode.com\/downloads\/2_3_0\/NoiseNinjaPlugin_Win64_2_3_0.zip\">downloaded<\/a> from their site, and you can <a>contact the developers<\/a> if you&#8217;d like to know when the update has been officially released.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Developer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ononesoftware.com\/\">onOne<\/a> is working on 64-bit versions, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niksoftware.com\/\">Nik Software<\/a> says they&#8217;re investigating support.&#160; The list above is just what I&#8217;ve happened across so far, so please pass along other examples. 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