Photoshop

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Introduction

This page details information that should help enhance the Photoshop experience.

Tips, Tricks, and Tutorials

Plugins

  • Luce - A filters that adds lighting effects to pictures.
  • Dust & Scratch Removal - As the filter name implies it removes dusts and scratches from photos.
  • Virtual Photographer - The filter as described on their web site: “Includes over 50 presets that automatically apply combinations of film grain, color modification, B/W, soft focus, high contrast and many artistic effects to achieve the same professional-looking images that used to take hours of photo editing.”
  • Border Mania - A bunch of filters for adding borders to pictures.
  • Auto FX’s Mosaic Filter - The filter as described on their web site: “Mosaic makes your photos look as if they were created out of a mosaic tile. Photo-realistic depth and variable tile size and color options give this effect an infinite number of looks.”
  • Auto FX’s Dreamy Photo - The filter as described on their web site: “Dreamy Photo gives images a soft romantic feel. This is a superb effect for enhancing stock photography, digital camera photos and any image you want to add a warm feel to.”
  • Harry’s Filters - As described on their web site: “lets you choose the appropriate effect without hassling through different menus and dialogs. The main effect categories are called Color, Artistic, Gradients, Patterns, Warp, Noise, En/Decrypt, Other and Nature. They include filters for changing the image color or mood, for creating artistic effects, producing colorful gradients or impressive patterns, warping images and adding special noise effects to image. Additionally they let you encrypting and decrypting images with 64 bit keys, produce zoom, mirror or paint effects as well as natural effects like lightning, tornado and polar lights.”
  • Little Ink Pot Xpose - “An exposure adjustment plugin. It was written to offer quick adjustment of highlights and shadows with a rapid preview feedback and a simple, intuitive interface. With just a few sliders you can attain better exposure of your digital photos.”
  • Little Ink Pot Thredgeholder - Uses edge detection to create great pictures sketches.
  • Little Ink Pot Chalkaholic - “Renders chalk and charcoal type effects with artistic panache and flair.”
  • VanDerLee Camouflage - Allows one to create a camouflage textures.
  • VanDerLee NightVision - Adds night vision effects to an image.
  • VanDerLee Snowflakes - Adds snow flakes to images.
  • VanDerLee Snowscape - Creates “layers of snow, dirt, gooey, slimy stuff, blood and similar effects to your (semi-)transparent images.”
  • PanoPreviewer - Allows you to preview panoramic photos while editing them. Cost: $19.95.
  • Bracketeer - Combines photos of multiple exposures to produce a picture that is uniformly lit. Costs: $19.95.

Brushes

Actions

Automator Actions

Resources

  • Megapixel Chart - A chart that shows the print dimensions of photos based on megapixels.