PhotoTools 2.5 is the fastest way to add a professional look to your photos
Includes hundreds of high-quality photographic effects from industry professionals

· Quickly and easily add effects to your photos in Photoshop, Lightroom or Aperture

· Perfect for portrait and wedding photographers

Great color, it's not as hard as you think. If you can compare images side-by-side and pick the best one than you can easily color correct and enhance your images with PhotoTune 3. PhotoTune 3 optimizes the dynamic range using eye-fidelity technology. Additionally, PhotoTune 3 improves the color and sharpness of your image without the need to know how to use levels or curves in Photoshop. If you photograph people, you can also tune your images by clicking on skin tones to guarantee accurate skin color. Pro users get access to all the controls for tone, color and sharpening. Better images are just a few clicks away with PhotoTune 3.

PhotoWeave is a very powerful Plug-in for designing striped fabrics or adding many kinds of pattern effects to images.

Unhappy about the quality of your digital image enlargements? Resize your images using PhotoZoom Pro 4 and get superb results!

Manufacturer: BenVista

Includes Squizz, Textissimo, OttoPaths, Select, AutoMask, EasySeps, CD-Q, Medley, MagicTrack, MagicFrame, PhotoSpray, and ClassicFrames Volume I.

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Manufacturer: Human Software Company Inc., The

RepliDot is a revolutionary Photoshop Plug-in that converts traditional separation films into high-quality digital files for integration into today's all-digital workflows such as CTP and other similar environments.

Until now users have had limited options, such as the burden of dedicated scanners and special software at a high cost coupled with the inability of regular scanners to scan separation films without losing major highlight and shadow details and image quality.

RepliDot responds to strong market needs by using Adaptive Threshold Technology within the most popular photo-editing software. Through calibration utilities based on both scanner and film characteristics, this innovative software solution reliably transforms any grayscale image (of halftone films) into high-quality digital bitmap files.

RepliDot's simple interface allows users to create, from a calibration target supplied with the software or generated on the end user's imagesetter, correction tables that suit each scanner. This process introduces a precise level of correction to account for tint, while conserving sharp edges of text. The end result is the ability to reproduce and align CMYK films and to create a high-quality digital EPS file that can be imported by leading publishing applications.

Features:

· calibration for high-quality reproductions of halftone films;

· calibration provides optimal scanning results and improves the quality of scanned films;

· management calibration establishes different files of calibration tables, in order to store information regarding resolution, LPI, density and black percentages, resulting files are then used in the bitmap-replication process;

· uses automatic calibration to calibrate a certain imagesetters' output to an existing scanner -- helps reduce calibration time;

· allows manual calibration to create a calibration file specific to the film being processed;

· manual and automatic calibration;

· two techniques provided for film-separations reproduction;

· digitization of screened films using adaptive-threshold technology;

· dot-to-dot replication of the four separations using adaptive-threshold technology to ensure highest quality copy dot scans resulting in high-quality bitmap files;

· digital de-screening of separations to generate a continuous tone shade file while preserving the sharpness of text;

· image processing technique offers unique way to convert prescreened set of film separations into an editable continuous tone (CT) image file;

· operation allows user to make last-minute retouching to the CT file with a great deal of flexibility;

· manageable dot replication for improved image quality (dot polishing); and

· automatic alignment using register marks of digital separations.

Convert screened films using advanced Adaptive Threshold Technology. RepliDot enables the user to completely convert a scanned halftone film to bitmap mode with the most sophisticated adaptive-threshold algorithm. The result is a high-contrast, black-and-white representation of separation films without artifacts.

Manageable dot replication provides improved image quality, and enables the user to clean the background of film and improve the sharpness of the scanned dots, choosing from four degrees of sharpness.

Automatic registration of digital separations provides digital film alignment resulting in five files in perfect registration, altogether known as a copy-dot file with a composite TIFF preview of the four films superimposed.

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Manufacturer: Layout Limited

PowerPC version contains: Select, AutoMask, SafeProof, and EasySep. Windows version contains: Select and AutoMask.

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Manufacturer: Human Software Company Inc., The

Select, a Plug-in for Photoshop and Corel PHOTO-PAINT provides color corrections without masking. With professional color-correction tools such as multi selective color correction and swap color correction, the user can test and output up to nine sets of color corrections side by side.

The selective color correction is an essential tool, as there is no other way to precisely change the yellow in orange or the blue in green. With Select, easily and accurately apply sophisticated color retouching to RGB or CMYK images within Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Freehand, or Corel PHOTO-PAINT.

Select works precisely and very smoothly. View exact results with a proprietary WYSIWYG mechanism. Use exclusive color-correction features such as the unique selective multicolor correction, advanced plate manipulation, and fully adjustable curves as found on high-end color systems and drum scanners.

Easily re-color images in RGB or CMYK, and mask, even the most difficult image, at the same time. Automatic color correction is perfectly smooth on the edge. Use up to six channels for multicolor masks.

Select is visual but precise. Pick a color, select a target color, and adjust the range. Provides exceptional color-display accuracy. Easily perform true selective-color changes on up to six specific colors, with similar controls and capabilities as those available on high-end drum scanners. Select and adjust specific colors without affecting other color densities and eliminate time-consuming masking. Independent-range adjustment per channel, providing for no color break in images.

Features:

· combine colors in a similar fashion as a high-end, prepress workstation such as Scitex;

· easily and quickly manipulate in percentages, a matrix of colors;

· multiply, add, subtract, or combine any color or plates;

· exchange or swap separations, create duotones, tritones, sepia, and more;

· create four-color black and white from color images;

· remove color casting;

· perform custom UCR/GCR;

· create special separations (touch plates);

· from RGB video pictures, adjust the colors;

· easily perform ghost effects using an instant preview of changes in real CMYK or RGB;

· provides preview of the effect plate by plate, and a densitometer reading for perfect control;

· includes a library of effects or customize effects, and save for future or repetitive use;

· four curves adjust global-color correction in any color range of the image with numeric entries;

· instantly preview changes on a CMYK-calibrated display of the original picture and the corrected version, or view channels independently;

· advanced-zoom mechanism enables the user to check, precisely and instantly, color changes in full detail;

· save adjustments for further editing and use on other images; and

· output color corrections side by side.

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Manufacturer: Human Software Company Inc., The

Select Pro 4 provides color corrections without masking as a Plug-in for Photoshop and Corel PHOTO-PAINT using professional color-correction tools such as multi selective color correction and swap color correction. The Plug-in also enables the user to test and output up to nine sets of color corrections side by side.

SiteGrinder 2 builds entire web sites from basic multilayer Photoshop documents. Here is a partial list of the kinds of page elements, from simple web graphics to popup menus and forms, that SiteGrinder empowers the user to create with basic Photoshop skills.

SmartPicker is an interactive color wheel designed to help designers and artists apply color theory to create effective color schemes. SmartPicker offers a color wheel within Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. SmartPicker uses analogous, complementary, split complementary, monochromatic, tetradic, and triadic schemes. Color information will be retrieved automatically inside Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.

SmartPicker also offers the ability to save a dynamic list of colors. Several kinds of comparisons (against other colors, against gray levels, or against another image OS X feature) enables the user to find the perfect color for their designs.

SmartPicker is the most powerful color wheel picker on the market and a must have for all advertising agencies, graphic artists, or illustrators.

Features:

· slick color wheel;

· image-to-color comparisons;

· works in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements;

· use multiple color schemes; and

· dynamic color palette.

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Manufacturer: Human Software Company Inc., The

Give a hand-crafted look to any digital photo with effects that include oil paint, impasto, watercolour, coloured pencil, pastel, pencil sketch, and line drawing

Manufacturer: Alien Skin Software

SpiroMaker creates an infinite variation of Spirographs(R) (mathematical name is trochoids) inside Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. As a selection Plug-in it will come as a new path, a new layer, or a new selection. Stroke the path with a color for stunning effects.

Squizz is an incredible Plug-in that enables the user to directly distort any grayscale, Lab, RGB, RGB 16-bit, or CMYK images directly, on a layer, or within a selection. With effects such as squeeze, smear, wrap, twist, pinch, and distort, expand photos -- without limits.

Features:

· brush for stunning image distortions -- ultra cool with the new freeze option;

· advanced grids-warping features -- precise;

· a bzier-like grid on a super high-end system;

· includes envelopes to warp bitmaps onto shapes;

· enables distortion with three bzier paths;

· larger previews and unique pan and zoom at any level of detail;

· supports grayscale, Lab, RGB, RGB 16-bit, or CMYK;

· works on layers (keeping transparency intact); and

· distort to any kind of template.

Squizz as compared to Photoshop's liquefy feature:

· brushes have no limits (600 pixel limit in liquefy),

· brushes work through a virtual mechanism with the same speed -- regardless the picture size;

· brushes feature jitter and displace

· warp rendering is faster on large images

· advanced grids with full control over creation is perfect for label warp (grids are not available in liquefy);

· envelopes (not available in liquefy); and

· coons and path warping (not available in liquefy).

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Manufacturer: Human Software Company Inc., The

Stamina Collection includes: Squizz, Textissimo, and PhotoSpray. Stamina Gold Collection includes: Squizz, Textissimo, PhotoSpray, and OttoPaths

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Manufacturer: Human Software Company Inc., The

Vector plug-in for Lightwave 3D

Manufacturer: Electric Rain

Accomplish simple 3D tasks in seconds with remarkable results and place your 3D text, extrusions or models back into Photoshop as 3D layers

Manufacturer: Electric Rain

Create 3D directly from the Flash Enviroment

Manufacturer: Electric Rain

Textissimo features more than 400 ready-made effects to customize or as a starting point to generate unique and fresh text effects.

Create text effects with any PostScript Type 1 or TrueType font (TrueType only on Windows). Choose from more than 410 libraries and create amazing effects for day-to-day jobs and projects. Create vignettes, advanced gradients, drop shadows, textures inside type, and more complex special renderings such as cutouts, halo, glow, fire, ice, and bubbles. Create incredibly sophisticated text effects, so far unattainable with current solutions. Combine, test, exchange, add operations, merge, blend, and more. When finished click save and add it to the library.

Textissimo blends the text effect to any background magically. Natural distressed type, earth effects, lava, fire, magma, ice, electric shock, distress and gradient, bevel, carve, shadows, and text spray.

Textissimo is very easy to use. Enter the title or path and load the effect (use the scrolling library, organized per category, and preview the effect beautifully blended to the background); click the apply button, and the effect is complete.

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Manufacturer: Human Software Company Inc., The

Imaging applications today work with linear resizing, so everything within the image changes size proportionally. Xfile 2 does that too with super advanced algorithms and now features a seam carving tool that allows the image to be resized while changing its aspect ratio and keeping important features untouched. It removes or adds areas to an image that would be least noticed.