Redfield Water Ripples Plug-in is a Photoshop compatible plug-in that enables you to create realistic water ripples effects. It provides a wide variety of settings to customize the effects as well as several presets and a randomizer option.

Requires: Adobe Photoshop

With the Snowflakes™ plug-in, you can make it snow any time of the year, any place you want.

You can control all aspects of a snow; both the minimal and maximal size of the snowflakes, whether it´ll be soft snowflakes or hail, the amount of snowflakes falling down and even the color of the snowflakes.

By changing the color, you can use Snowflakes to simulate effects such as confetti and by controlling size and amount you can even use it to create star-filled skies. Setting a high transparency can be used to emulate the look of a rain-sprayed window.

Snowflakes requires a Photoshop™ plug-in compatible graphics applications on Windows.

Features:

• Full control over shape and size of the snowflakes.
• Any number of snowflakes possible.
• Configurable color.
• Fully anti-aliassed.
• Renders correctly on (partially) transparent images.
• Reliable preview.
• High precision calculations.
• Complete help system available.
• Save and load settings.
• Supports any resolution.
• Supports 8-bit RGB, grayscale and Duotone color modes.

Nine more plugin filters for Photoshop and compatible graphics hosts. Effects included in this set are:

• Bad Dream
• Duochrome
• Emphasis
• Fuzzifier
• Improver
• Lineart
• Pastellise
• Tekstya
• Tweaker

More free plugins available at the Xero Graphics site!

Nine more plugin filters for Photoshop and compatible graphics hosts. Effects included in this set are:

• Bad Dream
• Duochrome
• Emphasis
• Fuzzifier
• Improver
• Lineart
• Pastellise
• Tekstya
• Tweaker

More free plugins available at the Xero Graphics site!

A single Photoshop-compatible plug-in with 20 effects for creating dramatic edge and colour modifications. They are best used when experimenting with intense photo transformations for a highly stylized look. They are also handy when creating interesting texture effects.

Features:

• Easy to use dialog layout
• Drop-down menu
• 20 internal filter options
• Various slider controls
• Zoom preview area in/out

Compatible Image Modes: RGB 8 bit mode (24 bit images)

System Requirements: PC : Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP, plus any host graphics application that supports the Photoshop *.8bf format plug-in standard.

Nine more plugin filters for Photoshop and compatible graphics hosts. Effects included in this set are:

• Abstractor
• Artworx
• Fritillary
• Iridium
• Moodlight
• Radiance
• Simplicity
• Soft Vignette
• Titanium

More free plugins available at the Xero Graphics site!

Video MSU Cartoonizer VirtualDub plugin is a tool that allows you convert movies into cartoons.

The filter is designed for oil-painted and animated cartoon rendering. MSU Cartoonizer filter has many parameters, which allow to obtain very interesting results.

Requirements: VirtualDub 1.4 or greater.

Nine more plugin filters for Photoshop and compatible graphics hosts. Effects included in this set are:

• Artgrain
• Artifax
• Clarity
• Cubism
• Illustrator
• Serious Fog
• Softmood
• Supersmooth
• Ultraviolet

More free plugins available at the Xero Graphics site!

With NightVision, you can see for your self! Enhances images just like real night goggles do. Add effects to make it look more like you want.

The NightVision plug-in can make any image like the ones from night vision goggles. By using the effects in this plug-in, you can make images look like they are from a black & white security camera or CCTV system. It´s also possible to make them look like infra-red photos. Or you can just use the interlace to make an image look like a TV picture. You can even use it to enhance real night images!

With the effects you can enhance dark areas. You can add TV ghosting, the "echo" you see when you use bad cables. There is a interlace, which has anti-alias. You can set the color of the image and much more. You can save your own settings and share them with others.

NightVision works with most applications compatible with PhotoShop plug-ins for Windows™.

Features:

• Anti-aliassed and sub-pixel accurate interlacing.
• Unique "Feedback" effect.
• Reliable preview.
• High precision calculations.
• Fully documented in help system.
• Save and load settings.
• Supports 8-bit and 16-bit RGB, grayscale and Duotone color modes.

It´s all going downhill, and that´s where it belongs! With the SnowScape plug-in you will be able to add layers of snow to images simply by letting the snow fall down.

You decide which areas the snow should fall down on by making the rest of the image transparent, you then start the plug-in, configure how much and where the snow should fall, and SnowScape does the rest.

You can also use SnowScape to do similar effects; make the snow less sticky, and you can create hills of sand. Apply it up-side down with high stickiness, and the ooze will be dripping down from your image.

SnowScape requires a Photoshop plug-in compatible graphics applications on Windows.

Features:

• Anti-aliassed.
• Configurable placement balance.
• Control physics aspects of falling snow.
• Animation mode (watch the snow fall down).
• Fully documented in help system.
• Save and load settings.
• Supports 8-bit RGB mode.

PixelSampler is a free and useful plugin pack for Adobe Photoshop and compatible applications that includes 8 free film quality effects. B&W, Grain, Monotone, Duotone, Starlight, Contrasting Levels, TonalStreak. Twisting Pixels is the number one choice for special effect filters for print material, Web, or multimedia.

PixelSampler includes a stand-alone application as well as a plug-in that works with Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro & Corel PixelSampler Gallery.

Includes FREE Film Style Effect Filters:

• Black and White
• Contrasting Levels
• Duotone
• Starlight
• Grain
• Monotone
• Tonal Streak
• Warm Cool
• Layers for Combining Effects
• Presets for a Quick Start
• Technical & Customer Support

Requires a free serial number available at the developer´s website.

A single Photoshop-compatible plug-in with 20 effects for modifying image colour values in different ways. You can use them for subtle correction of your digital photos or experiment with the more dramatic transformations that are available.

Although quite basic these filters can be handy for use on a regular basis.

Features:

• Easy to use dialog layout
• Drop-down menu
• 20 internal filter options
• Various slider controls
• Zoom preview area in/out

Compatible Image Modes: RGB 8 bit mode (24 bit images)

System Requirements: PC : Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP, plus any host graphics application that supports the Photoshop *.8bf format plug-in standard.

Water Ripples is a freeware Adobe Photoshop compatible plug-in filter. The highly realistic water ripples effect designer has numerous options as well as an impressive 3D quality. The random settings generator produces unlimited variations of rippled surfaces.

Use the Camouflage plug-in to make army, fashion and animal camo. You can even make patterns not found anywhere else.

You can control up to eight color layers. We´ve included a big set of examples, which you can select from within the plug-in. Amongst them are real army colors, both old and new. Many common fashion colors are also included as well as a few animal colors.

The patterns the Camouflage plug-in makes don´t have any seams. This means you can use them as textures. You can use the patterns for 3D models or as a background for web sites. They can even be used as a pattern for clothing. The patterns are seamless at any image size.

You can scale the pattern to fit your needs. The shape of the patterns can be changed to look the way you want. You can save your settings and share them with the rest of the world.

Camouflage works with most applications compatible with PhotoShop plug-ins for Windows™.

Features:

• Combine up to eight differently colored layers.
• Seamless edges.
  • 3D textures.
  • Website background.
• Eight common "fashion" type camouflage presets.
• 13 authentic army camouflage presets.
  • World War 2: US, German, Russian and Italian.
  • NATO: British and German.
• Reliable preview.
• High precision calculations.
• Fully documented help system.
• Save and load settings.
• Supports 8-bit RGB mode.

XnView shell extension allows for viewing a thumbnail of the selected image in the context menu of MS Explorer. You will be able to convert and resize, and you can even edit IPTC metadata.

Everyone has observed blocks and fringes caused by JPEG compression. This has become an inevitable, if annoying, part of digital imaging, and we have all learned to live with it.

Topaz Labs proudly ends this problem by releasing our JPEG enhancer as freeware. This Photoshop plug-in removes JPEG artifacts and enhances image clarity simultaneously. Its ease of use makes it perfect for everyone while its advanced algorithms achieve the optimal result.

No Photoshop? No problem. It works with anything that supports Photoshop plugins, including freeware such as Irfanview and GIMP.

In addition, Topaz DeJPEG supports:

• Both 8-bit and 16-bit/channel
• Photoshop scripting and actions
• Batch processing of multiple images
• Context sensitive help

Nine plugin filters for Photoshop and compatible graphics hosts. Effects included in this set are:

• Alien Mist
• Greyscaler
• Greytinter
• Lithograph
• Mistifier
• Moonlight
• Porcelain
• Seasons
• Skycleaner

More free plugins available at the Xero Graphics site!

The Camera Raw functionality in Adobe Photoshop software provides fast and easy access within Photoshop to the "raw" image formats produced by many leading professional and midrange digital cameras. By working with these "digital negatives," you can achieve the results you want with greater artistic control and flexibility while still maintaining the original "raw" files.

This new version of the Camera Raw plug-in replaces the original Camera Raw plug-in that was installed with Adobe Photoshop CS2; Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0; and Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 software. Visit the Camera Raw page for a complete list of supported cameras.

This Adobe Photoshop compatible Face Control plug-in allows you to change facial expressions of people in the digital photos. It is very easy-to-use freeware program. Human, animal, alien, or any other faces are welcomed.

A large collection of all the previously released freeware brush packs from Cybia. For use with Adobe Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. It is advisable to use a pressure-sensitive graphics tablet for maximum control when painting.

This brush pack comes in *.abr format which should be compatible with ALL versions of Photoshop from version 3 upwards, including CS and Elements. Paint Shop Pro 7 can also use these brushes without any need for conversion. PSP 8 or 9 can "import" them to automatically generate the new format files needed for that version of the program.

Features:

• Classic : 600 brushes
• Mini Tips : 300 brushes
• CG Blox : 100 brushes
• RS Base : 100 brushes
• Compatible with Photoshop
• Compatible with Elements
• Compatibile with Paint Shop Pro
• Use with Windows or Mac

System Requirements

• PC : Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP, plus any host graphics application that can open/import the *.abr format brushes, including Adobe Photoshop, Elements and Paint Shop Pro.