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Photo-Plugins
Vendor: George Fournaris
Purpose: A collection of “free plug-ins for the serious photographer”
Description
The free Photo-Plugins collection consists of the following:
■ B/W conversion, with complete control over red, yellow, green, cyan, blue,
magenta, and intermediate hues
■ Selective saturation, which lets you define a saturation zone by setting its
center/range with two sliders
■ Local contrast enhancement, brings out detail by heightening local contrast
■ High pass sharpening, with adjustment of filter radius, and blending control
■ Soft focus, applies a soft focus effect for portraits or fashion
■ Lens correction, corrects barrel and pincushion distortions
■ Contrast mask, reduces overall contrast, brings out details in highlights/shadows
■ Gradient blur, to draw the viewer’s attention to the photograph’s main subject
Comments
Developed by George Fournaris while he was co-administrator of Digital Photography
Greece (www.dpgr.gr), Photo-Plugins are variable in quality. The B/W conversion produces
better results than gradient blur. Many people say they have found them useful,
according to the on-site forum.
Version: 1.0 (2008)
Plugs into: Photoshop, Elements, Illustrator, ImageReady, IrfanView, XnView, VCW VicMan’s
Photo Editor, and imageN
OS: Windows 2000 and XP
RAM: 128MB
Supported file formats: Major formats
Price level: Freeware
Address: info@photo-plugins.com
www.photo-plugins.com
Power Retouche Plug-ins
Vendor: Power Retouche
Purpose: Tools for changing or enhancing digital photographs
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