Extreme Tech magazine has posted an overview of 10 free Photoshop plug-ins, yours for the downloading. The list includes Luce (for lighting effects), various Flaming Pear tools, Dust & Scratch Remover from Polaroid, Virtual Photographer, Border Mania (no relation to politics), Camouflage & Night Vision, and Auto FX Mosaic. [Via]
In a plug-in-related vein…
- Filter Forge brings the spirit of the late, sometimes lamented Filter Factory into the 21st century. The tool offers “a visual node-based editor allowing you to create your own filters – textures, effects, distortions, backgrounds, you name it.”
- Artlandia’s SymmetryShop and SymmertryWorks for Photoshop and Illustrator look like pretty slick and powerful ways to jam out repeating artwork. They’re not cheap, but for textile & clothing designers, I can imagine them being invaluable.
- Macworld has posted a roundup of review of five Photoshop plug-ins (Exposure, FocalBlade, iCorrect Edit Lab Pro, PhotoKit Color, and Noiseware Professional).
- You might want to check out the comprehensive Photoshop-Filters.com, as well as the Photoshop Blog’s list of plug-ins & plug-in resources. And the Photoshop product pages list a variety of plug-ins as well.
Remember Specular’s Texturescape? It was a very cool application for generating tilable -vector- patterns and textures. A really cool app that would fit right in to the Flash-centric web of today. I think I still have a copy of it along with a floppy disk of John Knoll’s CyberMesh. Ah, the good ole days!
I’m proud to take credit for the Macworld reviews of Exposure and Photokit Color 2.0.
Jan Kabili
You like plug-ins, check out Plugs ‘N Pixels (http://www.plugsnpixels.com)! I’ve got your blog listed on the Links page too ;-).
The URL for Plugs ‘N Pixels has been revised to http://www.plugsandpixels.com
[Thanks for the update. –J.]