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virtualPhotographer
Vendor: optikVerve Labs
Purpose: Apply high-quality, professional photographic styles to your digital images
Description
virtualPhotographer is freeware that allows you to apply the sort of photographic effects
that professional film photographers love to use. It includes over 50 presets for automatic
modification of your images. Effects include film grain, color modification, B/W
conversion, soft focus, high contrast, and many specific types of tinted effect, like
bronzed, silvered, greenback, lime juice, and toast. Using virtualPhotographer can save
you hours of work in the virtual darkroom.
Comments
There are 12 additional download sets of effects, most of which seem to have that professional
look familiar from published images. This is an exceptional piece of freeware,
created by Colin Jones (an Englishman who lives in Oregon) and programmed by Peter
Rowe. Photoshop Creative magazine called it “one of the best Photoshop plug-ins around”
and that was spot on.
Version: virtualPhotographer 1.0 (2008)
Plugs into: Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro, and Photo-Paint
OS: Windows 2000, XP, and Vista
RAM: 128MB
Supported file formats: Major image formats
Price level: Freeware
Address: contactus@optikvervelabs.com
www.optikvervelabs.com
Nik Color Efex Pro
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Vendor: Nik Software
Purpose: Award-winning set of photographic filters for professional photographers
Description
More than just a set of filters, Nik Color Efex Pro allows you to apply photographic filter
effects and enhancements to the whole image or selected parts of the image, using
the vendor’s U Point technology. With this unique interface, the software offers a whole
new world of convenience because you no longer have to use cumbersome layer masks
to isolate the parts of the image you wish to enhance. You simply click on the area to
establish a control point and adjust the slider controls to refine your selection.