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Hi,
As you can see below we have created a lot of new updates for our PhotoWiz products recently. One reason was the release of Photoshop CS3 for the Mac and the other reason was a problem under Windows Vista with 2 GB or more RAM. Our freeware plugins Harrys Filters and PhotoFreebies still need to be updated, which will be done soon.
Many other free and commercial plugins that were created with FilterMeister have the same problem. So these plugins will need to be recompiled to work fine under Vista with 2 GB or more RAM. Feel free to tell the creators these plugins to contact me for a solution.
By the way, if you are interested in my photographic work, I just added several new portrait, dance and fantasy images to my photography web site at
Harald Heim Photography
Wishing you Happy Easter Holidays,
Harald Heim
http://www.thepluginsite.com
B/W STYLER 1.01 FOR WINDOWS: Vista Fix, Multiprocessor Support, New Film Types, German Language Support
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Version 1.01 of B/W Styler for Windows offers a few new features plus some bug fixes. The most important bug fix concerns Windows Vista: Previous versions of B/W Styler crashed under Vista with 2 GB or more RAM. Version 1.01 does not.
Some effects of B/W Styler 1.01 now support hyperthreading and multiple processors. This means a speed increase of up to 30%. 22 new B/W film presets were added, so you can now simulate 37 different B/W films in B/W Styler. Finally, the dialog is now also available in German language. Registered users will receive the update within 24 hours by email.
For more information about B/W Styler see:
http://www.thepluginsite.com/products/photowiz/
COLORWASHER, FOCALBLADE & LIGHTMACHINE FOR WINDOWS: Updates that fix a bug with Windows Vista
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Previous versions of ColorWasher, FocalBlade and LightMachine crashed under Windows Vista if at least 2 GB RAM were available. Now updates have been made available of them, which don't have this problem anymore. Registered users already received the update by email.
For more information about ColorWasher, FocalBlade and LightMachine see:
http://www.thepluginsite.com/products/photowiz/
FOCALBLADE & LIGHTMACHINE FOR MAC: Mac-Intel Versions for Photoshop CS3 are available
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FocalBlade and LightMachine is now also available as an Intel version which runs natively in Photoshop CS3 on Mac computers with an Intel processor. You can expect a speed increase of two to three times with these versions. People who have purchased the FocalBlade and LightMachine for Mac will receive the Mac-Intel version free of charge by email within the next 24 hours. A Mac-Intel version of ColorWasher will become available soon.
For more information about FocalBlade and LightMachine see:
http://www.thepluginsite.com/products/photowiz/
FREE PLUGINS AND TOOLS: Vicanek Plugins, Xero Pulsar, Thedigitalartshop Plugins, Easyfilter Plugins, Microsoft HD Photo plugin, PhotoPresets for Lightroom
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Mr. Vicanek offers free plugins (for Windows) for download. The Color Cube plugin provides a 3D visualization of all colors in an image, which can e.g. help to detect color clipping. You can spin the color cube and view it from any angle you want. The PanoWarp plugin performs transformations that are necessary for stitching panorama images. Finally, the Perspective plugin lets you pan, tilt, rotate, reposition and resize an image.
MV's Plugin Site
Xero Pulsar is a freeware starmaker plugin with eight options. Xerographics also offer a commercial starmaker called Quasar with more options.
Xero Graphics : Pulsar
Among various commercial plugins Thedigitalartshop.com also offers three free plugins (for Windows). GREYSCALER is a kind of channel mixer for converting images to black and white. It also offers brightness and contrast sliders. IMAGE ENCODER encrypts and decrypts your images with a 24 bit key. IRIDESCENT applies a color-shift effect to your images.
The Digital Artshop-filters6
Easyfilter offers three plugins (for Windows) for image adjustment and color space conversion. The Image Adjustment plugin contains sliders for hue, saturation, lightness and contrast, and works in 8 and 16 bit RGB mode. The Color Space plugin converts from and to RGB, CMY, CMYK, HSB, HSL, Lab and LCH. The Color Converter plugin is quite similar, but also offers 17 different RGB working spaces for input and output. For the first two plugins you can also download the FilterMeister source code and inspect the algorithms.
easy.Filter
The BETA release of the Microsoft HD Photo plugin adds support for the HD Photo format to Photoshop CS2 and CS3 (for Windows). The HD Photo format offers compression with up to twice the efficiency of JPEG with fewer damaging artifacts. HD Photo offers both lossless and lossy image compression, and can retain the full dynamic range and color gamut data from a camera's sensor.
Download details: HD Photo Plug-in for Adobe® Photoshop® software
OnOne Software offers free PhotoPresets for Photoshop Lightroom (for Win/Mac) created by Jack Davis. The 80 PhotoPresets change only one development parameter allowing you to optimize your image at each step. You start with adjusting your images color and tone and then you can add effects like black and white conversions, tinting, split-toning and vignetting. There are also videos that explain how to use the PhotoPresets.
onOne Software - Products - PhotoPresets with One-Click WOW!
GRAPHICS NEWS: Photoshop CS3, DustKleen/SensorKleen, Filter Forge 1.0, DreamText, Video Tutorial Library, In-HOWse Design Awards
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Adobe announced Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended. Photoshop CS3 is meant for designers and photographers whereas Photoshop CS3 Extended additionally offers tools for 3-D, motion graphics, image measurement and analysis. The software will be available for PowerPC and Intel-based Macs as well as Windows XP and Vista.
Adobe - Adobe Photoshop Family
Image Trends announced DustKleen and SensorKleen, two Windows standalone applications that remove the artifacts of dust on scanned images and image dust from the DSLR camera sensor covers. DustKleen offers an automatic and manual mode whereas SensorKleen only allows manual correction. A full automatic Pro version of SensorKleen will follow later in 2007.
Image Trends - Digital Imaging Software, Plug-ins, & More
The final version 1.0 of Filter Forge is now available. Filter Forge lets you build your own filters with the help of a visual editor and allows you to download the filters that were created by others (1855 of them are currently available).
Filter Forge - Photoshop Plugin to Create Your Own Filters
DreamText.com offers a Photoshop plugin plus up to 49 font typesets in 3D.
Custom Designed 3D Graphics and Dream Text 3D Type. Objects can be typed as 3D font images.
The Art & Design Video Tutorial Library from the Sessions Online Design School provides 16 videos, each of which walks you through a certain design technique.
The Video Tutorial library of visual design guides
The In-HOWse Design Awards calls for entries. You can submit your best corporate work until April 30, 2007. If you win, your work and name will be highlighted in the February 2008 issue of HOW magazine.
HOWdesign.com - Design+Creativity - Design Competitions
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PhotoWiz - Revitalize your photos with our color, contrast, exposure and sharpness correction plugins
Plugin Galaxy - 21 filter plugins with 159 amazing effects
Edge & Frame Galaxy - 1600+ edges and frames for creating special image and videos effects
Plugin Commander - The easiest way to manage, preview and apply plugins
HyperTyle - A sophisticated texture fx plugin
Photo Galaxy - 6300+ royalty-free photos and photo textures
HTML Shrinker - Reduce the size of your web, wap and script files
Mutation & Abstraction - 2000 colorful high-resolution textures
For more information about these and other products, please visit
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