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FREE PLUGINS AND TOOLS
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virtualPhotographer is a Photoshop-compatible plugin (for Windows) that
allows you to create a variety of photographic styles. Effects like film
grain, soft focus, B/W, B/W tinting and high contrast can be applied to
the image in one step. It also offers many presets which can be fine tuned
for your requirements.

http://www.optikvervelabs.com/

GraphicXtras updated their Gothic plugin (for Windows) for creating dark
and gothic like grainy image effects. It now includes 42 different output
modes, right-click preview settings, quicker effects, new experimentation
buttons, a bigger preview, an updated dialog and many new gothic/dark film
noirish effects.

http://www.graphicxtras.com/updates.htm

Little Ink Pot now offers two free plugins (for Windows). Xpose is a
simple exposure adjustment plugin and Thredgeholder provides an edge
detection algorithm that turns photos into line drawings.

http://www.littleinkpot.co.uk/FreePlugins.htm

Select Edges is a free Optipix plugin (for Win/Mac) that will create a
selection from the contours of the edges in the image. As a selection
plugin it only works in Photoshop and Elements. With the help of that
selection you can selectively process the image with other filters like
Gaussian Blur or Unsharp Mask.

http://www.reindeergraphics.com/free.shtml

Rosenman's new Smart De-Interlacer (for Windows) performs various
de-interlacing procedures.

http://www.richardrosenman.com/photoshop.htm

Photo Image is a collection of four simple Filter Factory plugins (for
Windows) for retouching photographs. The collection consists of the
Chrome, Enhance, Expose and Temperature plugins.

http://www.nikonians.org/html/resources/software/PhotoImage/documentation/
photo_image-mk.html

Jordi Gonzalez Boada offers a very simple Filter Factory plugin (for
Windows) that turns a color image into B/W with the help of red, green and
blue sliders. So this filter is very similar to the Channel Mixer filter
of Photoshop. There is also a Spanish version of the plugin available.

http://www.jordigonzalezboada.com/fotografia/filtros.html

Sloshifiers is a collection of 12 plugins (for Windows), created with
FilterMeister, with strange negative and color effects. Their nickname
"Photo Killers" is well deserved.

http://www.slosh.net/photokiller/photokillerdownload.htm

Photoshop SpeedUp is a freeware tool (for Windows) that helps you decrease
the time it takes to load Adobe Photoshop. This can e.g. be done by
letting you disable plugins that you may not be needed. There are also
options for disabling the loading of Adobe fonts and presets as well as an
option for setting Photoshop's memory usage. The original settings can be
restored at any time. It works with Adobe Photoshop versions 3 to CS.

http://www.acropdf.com/products.html

Plug-In Switch is a freeware tool (for Windows) for disabling Photoshop,
Premier and After Effects plugins and re-enabling them again when needed
without having to uninstall the plugins each time. It only displays the
plugins of a certain folder and of a certain type at once.

http://www.cybia.co.uk/pswitch.htm