Adobe Photoshop Filters and Plug-ins

AKVIS  produces a number of Photoshop plug-ins including: Retoucher, Chameleon, Enhancer, Coloriage, Noise Buster, Sketch, Decorator, LightShop, Frame Suite, and more.

Auto F/X  produces a variety of plug-ins including: Photo/Graphic Edges, Typo/Graphic Edges, Ultimate Texture Collection, and Photo/Graphic Patterns.

BlowUp  makes advanced image scaling easy, preserves smooth, crisp edges and lines, and creates four times (1600% area) enlargements from any image without jagged artifacts or halos. In some cases, BlowUp can enlarge up to six times (3600% area) without obvious artifacts.

DigiEffects - Digital Special Effects Solutions  Photoshop, Premiere and After Effects plug-ins for Macintosh and Windows.

Digital Film Tools  is an off-shoot of a Los Angeles based motion picture visual effects facility. Adobe Photoshop compatible plug-ins include: 55mm, Digital Film Lab, Light!, Ozone, zMatte, EZ Mask, and Snap.

Exposure  brings the look and feel of film to digital photography. Simulate the warmth and softness of real world film, both color and black and white. Reproduce realistic film grain, and simplify your digital photography workflow.

Eye Candy Bundle  includes Textures, Nature, and Impact. You can get each product seperately as well. These are some really great special effect filters ... so check out the Alien Skin site for detailed descriptions.

Filter Forge  allows you to create your own filters, and submit filters to the online Filter Library where other users can download them for free. Contributors also can get Filter Forge for free. You submit filters, they get popular with the users, and they send you a free copy of Filter Forge. Sounds simple but don't expect a giveaway, you'll have to earn it.

HumanSoftware   provides a full range of professional plug-ins, filters, xtras and xtensions.

IconBuilder  is a filter for use with Adobe Photoshop or Fireworks that makes creating icons for either the Macintosh or Windows operating systems a snap. IconBuilder has been enhanced for increased compatibility with Photoshop / Fireworks CS3 and Mac OS X.

Image Doctor  is a set of image-correction filters for Photoshop, Fireworks, Paint Shop Pro, and other image editors. Image Doctor removes blemishes and defects, quickly repairs over-compressed JPEGs, and seamlessly replaces unwanted details and objects. Professional and amateur photographers, photo editors, archivists, graphic designers and Web designers can more quickly fix their images with Image Doctor.

Intellihance Pro  allows the user to quickly and dynamically enhances digital images from any source, easily fine tune and compare different settings, interactively adjust any setting .. including color, contrast, and sharpening. Compare and print up to 25 enhancement variations at once. Presets are available directly from Photshop menu for quick use.

Magic Enhancer Pro  works with any Adobe Photoshop plug-in capable application. Adjust lightness, contrast and color balance. Works well for enhancement and photos with a lack of lightness or uneven illumination, silhouetted images on a dark background. Color temperature control allows fixing color balance defects easily.

Mask Pro  is a toolbox of several tools designed specifically for creating masks and complex selections. It goes beyond what Photoshop offers in several ways. Unique color decontamination technology allows it to remove color casts in transparent objects like smoke, fog and glass so you can see through them in a realistic way.

Nik Sharpener Pro  offers features and controls necessary to achieve optimal sharpness in any image. This tool simplifies the process by providing you with controls that are both easy to use and understand.

Noise Ninja  helps to remove noise and grain from digital photographs and scanned film images. Great for those shooting in low light or fast action situations, where high ISO is required. Noise Ninja runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (standalone only) .. and is available as a standalone application, and as a plug-in for Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and compatible hosts.

Page Curl Pro  lets you not only bend the image, using two types of bending (curling and folding), but also texturize it (using the bump maps), orient it in 3D space (including the perspective distortions) and obtain total control over the process of lighting the image (including the option of dropping inner shadows).

Panopticum  produces a number of filters .. including Alpha Strip - a unique set of procedures for cutting the images on alpha channel.

Pantone COLORIST  selects PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM Colors from within Adobe Photoshop.

PearlyWhites  is a Photoshop compatible filter that automatically whitens and brightens teeth. PearlyWhites may also whiten the sclera of the eye as it looks for white elements when surrounded by flesh tones.

PhotoFrame Pro  allow you to quickly and easily create edge effects that complement your image. Every effect and option can be previewed in real-time.

Photographer's Contact Sheet  gives you a fast and reliable way to make contact sheets of your photoshoots.

Puzzle Pro  creates a jig-saw puzzle effect, it also produces a plethora of various high quality image effects.

pxl SmartScale  makes scaling easy with intuitive tools, full screen preview, and simple image navigation. Allows you to efine the quality of your scaled image by controlling the overall sharpness, edge contrast and edge detail.

RealTexture Tools  work as Adobe Photoshop plugins, allowing the abilty to easily creating textures from a variety of sources.

ShineOff  is a filter that automatically removes the shine from skin. ShineOff automatically transforms faces and skin areas to a soft and natural looking appearance.

Snap Art  creates natural media artwork in a single step. Render any image in an unlimited variety of real-world art styles including oil paint, pencil sketch, pen & ink, comics, and more. Snap Art works without laborious hand editing and is more versatile than Actions or brushes.

Splat!  combines frames, textures, edges, borders, mosaics and more with the award-winning interface of Eye Candy 4000 in an all-new, affordable plug-in. Digital photographers, graphic designers, Web monkeys and digital artists can set their images apart using the stunning effects of Splat.

Strata  has plug-ins for Photohop Extended. Strata Design lets you drop 3D objects into 2D photos, matching perspective and lighting. Strata Photo can transform a series of photos (taken of an object sitting on a specially printed piece of paper) into a 3D model for use in Photoshop. Strata Live connects Photoshop with Acrobat, exporting 3D models for viewing inside PDFs. There is a 4 minute video demonstating the plug-ins here.

The Plug Page  By Boxtop Software.

The World-Wide Power Co.  is a distributor of plug-ins, and an international source for extension and utility software.

Turbo Mask  is a Photoshop masking application that works like the human eye to pick out the important subject in an image. For images with a well defined subject and an identifiable background, Turbo Mask will identify and generate a high quality mask of the subject and deliver it as a Photoshop alpha channel or layer mask. Features include: AutoSubject Detection, Real-Time Mask Previews, Jigsaw Cut, and more.

VanDerLee  is a small company, based in Bussum, the Netherlands. Plug-ins include: OldMovie, UnPlugged-X, Camouflage, NightVision, Snowflakes, SnowScape, and more.

Xaos  has some unique products for the graphic artist. Including Paint Alchemy .. which transforms your images with painterly effects like Colored Pencil, Impressionist, or Pastel choosing from 75 built-in brushstroke effects and 36 editable brush style and complete versatile controls.

Xenofex 2  delivers 14 more effects for Web designers, graphic artists, digital photographers, and special effects enthusiasts. Simulate spectacular natural phenomena such as lightning and clouds. Create striking images and text using sophisticated distortions such as Flag, Television, and the brand new Rip Open. Transform your photos into jigsaw puzzles, constellations, and intricate mosaics with a single click. Presets put hundreds of quick and easy effects at your fingertips.