Weekly freebies : 215 + Professional Photoshop Plugins to enhance your workflow
As part of our weekly freebies series we’ll be reviewing a top resource showing how despite the recession you can still top up on substantial creative materials.
With the explosion of free online freebies digital art empire is rounding up our choice of the best Photoshop plug-ins these have been gone through our quality check so you’ll be downloading only top quality goodies.
Plugins are the one of the ways you can expand Photoshop and how originally it was designed around. Plug-ins enhance …
As part of our weekly freebies series we’ll be reviewing a top resource showing how despite the recession you can still top up on substantial creative materials.
With the explosion of free online freebies digital art empire is rounding up our choice of the best Photoshop plug-ins these have been gone through our quality check so you’ll be downloading only top quality goodies.
Plugins are the one of the ways you can expand Photoshop and how originally it was designed around. Plug-ins enhance the program giving you an amazing way to create effects quickly and simply increasing productivity and work flow. Enjoy.
Free Plugins
Auto FX Software
Auto FX Software has been a leading developer of professional Photoshop Plug-In filters since 1994 and has served over 500,000 professional designers, professional photographers and photo hobbyists around the world. Auto FX Software supports the Adobe Photoshop Plug-In standard for Photoshop 7, Photoshop CS2, Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS4.
Dreamy Photo
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.
Mosaic
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.
Harry’s Filters
Harry’s Filters is a free Photoshop-compatible plugin containing up to 69 different image effects.
Harry’s Filters 3 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.
“My assessment of this filter is that it’s a load of fun to play with, and potentially extremely useful. … it can definitely be both inspiring and useful, as well as artful and fun” Graphic Goo
Fotomatic Plug-Ins
Fotomatic is a collection of 8 plug-in filters for use with Adobe Photoshop or compatible host applications. They offer a series of effects based on traditional photography equipment and techniques. They are not meant to be complex or exact matches, merely a quick and easy method to achieve results that are similar to what can be produced via conventional non-digital formats.
Some of our favourites include
Techni-X which bleaches out most of the mid-tone greys, leaving crisp dark blacks and bright clean whites.
Hi-Spot which creates high contrast black and white photos. It will not just convert your images into the standard shades of grey, it will automatically higher the contrast and produce a more dramatic sense of lighting in your scene
Richard Rosenman
Offers a good broad range of 24 free Photoshop Plug-in for windows including a nifty 3D Sphere Generator and Evaluate which performs various image processing operations through rule-based evaluations. ‘Evaluate’ can be an extremely powerful filter when used to its full potential. With it’s sophisticated rule-based evaluations, it can perform more than 50 different image processing operations ranging from color replacement, color inversion, color swapping, greyscale conversion, color clamping, color multiplication and division, color trigonometrical mathematics, pixel blurring, pixel grain, and much, much more. Any of these effects can be applied to specific color ranges, specific luma ranges, specific color channels or any combination of any of these (and more).
Filter Forge
Filter Forge have 21 plugins for free
They also have a cool plugin for Adobe Photoshop that allows you to build your own filters. Although this is a trial version is free to use for 30 days Contributors get Filter Forge for free. You submit filters, they get popular with the users, we send you a free copy of Filter Forge.
What they say:
Things that make Filter Forge unique:
Firstly you can create your own filters. Filter Forge comes with a visual node-based editor allowing you to create your own filters – textures, effects, distortions, backgrounds, frames, you name it. Secondly You get free access to 6464 user-created filters.
Xero Graphics
Xero Graphics have a selection of Photoshop-compatible plugins available for download. These are all freeware, and were built using Filtermeister, with Paint Shop Pro 8.10 as the host program – they should work without problems with any Windows graphics program that supports the Adobe Photoshop plugin architecture.
Opik Verve Labs – Virtual Photoghrapher
Features
- Photoshop plug-in filter
- 200 one-click preset Effects
- Larger resizeable preview Window
- Batch mode
- Save your own Favorites
- Handles larger images
- New tabbed controls
- Easier Effect navigation
- Split-screen preview
“One of the best Photoshop plug-ins around…”
- PHOTOSHOP CREATIVE magazine
Flaming Pear
Inundate the landscape and submerge your friends. Create realistic pseudo-3D watery reflections with control over waves, ripples, and perspective.
I certainly had a lot fun downloading and trying these out
Let us know what you think of these plugins .
15 free high res, marbling textures,for personal and commercial use
