Add the perfect finishing touch to your images with PhotoFrame 4.5 Professional Edition. It features over a thousand design elements like film edges, borders, textures, backgrounds and adornments. It even has complete layouts where you just drop your image in and you are done.

PhotoFrame 4 Standard Edition really puts you into the digital darkroom. It is now easier than ever to add realistic film and darkroom edge effects to your images. You can also add artistic edges like torn paper, brush strokes or even create full-on layouts with backgrounds, textures and adornments. Add the perfect finishing touch to your images with a library of professionally created edge effects and design elements allowing you to create an infinite number of effects that really make your images stand out.

Create amazing mosaic, patchwork, and weave effects with PhotoPatch for Windows.

Features:

• 200 ready-made mosaic, patchwork, and weave effects for images

• create and record settings for custom effects;

• create effects impossible to achieve with any other methods;

• use any image as a basic spray for a new mosaic effect;

• use any mosaic, patchwork, and weave effects through masks to create dramatic frames; and

• easy to use.

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Create fabrics, patterns, and wallpaper with PhotoRepeat.

Features:

• up to 12 X 12 tiles per layer;

• unlimited number of layers;

• cascading repetitions, rotations, super impositions, skewing, horizontal or vertical image inversions, and more;

• use any image as the base pattern and the image may include a stencil for more intricate repeats;

• create a basic style and use it on different images over and over;

• use Alpha channels as stencils for sophisticated designs;

• cascade and repeat in a snap;

• save and recall effects;

• includes fabric and pattern templates;

• create multiple layers of image repeats; and

• works as a Plug-in, no Actions are needed.

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Manufacturer: Human Software Company Inc., The

The onOne Plug-In Suite 5 includes 6 award-winning programs to help solve the six most common problems photographers face in Photoshop. But don't just take our word for it — American Photo Magazine awarded the Plug-in Suite their Editor's Choice award for Top Image Editing Software and the professional photographers who read Studio Photography voted the Plug-In Suite the best plug-in for Photoshop in their Reader's Choice Awards.

PhotoSpray offers the ability to spray pictures on top of any RGB photos or layers. This new method of painting lets users brush sets of images on top of any photo, and brushes can be adjusted through a variety of parameters: XY resizing, shadow strength, Hue Saturation Value, opacity, or arithmetic mode. This spray brush is ideal for photorealistic painting. A very important tool for all landscapers, architects, or multimedia designers.

PhotoSpray starts with sprays that are a collection of images which are painted at each brush stroke. PhotoSpray has the most sophisticated controls of its kind. The user sprays various images along a grid on the image.

Using the directional mode, the spray follows the brush and with each stroke a new image is projected to the desktop. The user is free to change the speed, opacity, and spacing anytime.

Using the spray mode, the brush scatters sprayed images randomly and according to the selected brush size. This is an ideal mode for creating photorealistic textures and building natural-looking backgrounds from scratch. At any time, the user can change the size of the spray, adjust the Hue Saturation Value settings, opacity, spacing, or number of simultaneous strokes.

In orbit mode, PhotoSpray automatically brushes images according to predefined circular patterns. Users can change the radius, number of repeat, or strokes. It is also possible to assign a rotation speed to the brush, or let it grow or pulse automatically. This mode is ideal for creating breathtaking pattern effects. All parameters can be stored as presets, and PhotoSpray comes with dozens of ready-to-use presets. From the presets the user can create water, fire, clouds, or add fruits and candies.

PhotoSpray is the most-advanced sprayer of its kind because it offers many more controls. The user can create amazing new airbrush effects in a few clicks.

Features:

• control the shadow strength below individual items (an essential feature for a natural look);

• independent XY resizing enabling the user to add perspective simulation (leaves on the floor, grapes along a wall);

• integrated Hue Saturation Value adjustments;

• out of one spray, create limitless variations and new terrific airbrush effects;

• easily save and add effects to a library;

• adjustable dabs, opacity, an orbital mode;

• converts nozzles to sprays, ready to be used by PhotoSpray;

• sprays are TIFF files;

• easy to create unique textures and natural-looking effects;

• ideal for anyone wishing to paint using natural-looking sprays;

• ships with a collection of more than 50 realistic sprays including plants, flowers, leaves, trees, bushes, rocks, clouds, geometrical objects, balls, and more;

• carefully selected images are all natural, silhouetted with shadows; and

• includes a total of more than 50 individual items. Volumes 2, 3, and 4 each contain an additional 100+ Sprayettes.

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PhotoSurface v3 includes 300 ready-made textures for applying to images.

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

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 BenVista PhotoZoom Classic 3, and get superb results through our unique, award-winning S-Spline technology!

Higher Quality: Equipped with S-Spline Max, the latest generation of BenVista's patented S-Spline algorithm, PhotoZoom Pro 3 creates image enlargements of unequalled quality. PhotoZoom Pro 3 beats any of the alternative solutions, such as Photoshop's Bicubic technique, fractal-based methods, and so-called 'industry standards'.

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

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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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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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