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Reduce noise for sharper and crisper images. Noise is a very important issue in digital photography. Nearly all digital cameras produce images with an easily noticed noise component. This digital noise is especially strong in images taken at high ISO rates. Scans of negatives show a similar film grain. When the picture is taken in low light (indoor/night) or high-speed (sport/action) the noise is even more noticeable and a tool such as Auto DeNoise is needed. The noise and grain reduce the visual quality of digital images and resulting prints.
Noise is inherent to digital photos. Digital image sensors, because of the size and sensitivity, produce a slight noise as photons arrive at random intervals. The induced sampling error produces the noise. Small sensors on compact digital cameras generate more noise but even top-of-the-line cameras at high ISO settings show some noise.
Digital tools are needed to control digital noise. In many situations, fast-action photos, indoor, and low-light, a high ISO setting is required to avoid motion blur or shaking. Without the right digital tool, the photographer is faced with the choice of using a low ISO and get a blurry photo, or a high ISO and get a noisy image. The problem is compounded when photo enlargement is required.
Auto DeNoise uses a sophisticated algorithm that preserves detail and sharpness while removing grain or noise. Since noise is highly dependent upon the sensor of the camera (even within the same digital camera model, results may differ) and the picture being taken, it is very important to rely on a fast and simple tool.
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AutoCorrect - Human Software Company Inc., The 160-027 - Photoshop Elements Plug-in
AutoCorrect is a Plug-in for all Photoshop-compatible Mac or Windows applications that support Plug-ins.
AutoCorrect is a very efficient, one-click, color-correction system. It is not based on curves (even if added for a perfect final tune-up) but rather based on the techniques professionals are using in darkrooms. With AutoCorrect, get a professional picture-enhancement tool in RGB or CMYK.
Make photos stand out with multiple controls in one easy dialog box. AutoCorrect uses a unique approach that provides better image enhancement and crisp, lifelike images eliminating the need to spend more for another sharpener or picture-enhancement tool or trying to manipulate several tools (such as levels/curves) without being sure of the final output and losing details at each step.
Features:
• improves output quality with AutoCorrect and makes the best of already good photos or simply salvages photos of inferior quality;
• ultra-efficient sharpening gives better results than Photoshop's usm tool;
• scans corrections and enhancements in one click;
• photo restoration reclaims lost colors and details through a unique, professional approach;
• optionally combines several adjustments in one click for the best image tuning;
• enhances digital images for print and web; and
• works on RGB and CMYK images — all ultra fast.
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With AutoSelect, define the source colors on which to operate - select multiple colors with a color picker. Take advantage of RGB, LAB, or HSV space to perform color changes, even if the image remains in RGB. Simply sample the colors in the area to be affected with the built-in color sampler tool, and use the sliders to obtain the color. Adjust the range and limit of the extent of modifications. An easy brush mask creates an instant selection and quickly limits the effect. Unlike Photoshop HSV changes, the selectivity range will limit the effect to the color to be changed and will keep all the shades for a natural rendering.
Features:
• selectively change colors in GB without building a mask;
• easily compare changes side by side;
• view up to nine variations at once;
• correct a color cast in a snap;
• correct red eyes; and
• change eyes, clothes, color and more.
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AutoSmooth is a very efficient one-click color correction. It is not based on curves (even though we've added it for a perfect final tune-up), rather it is based upon the techniques professionals are using in darkrooms. With AutoSmooth, get a professional picture-enhancement tool in RGB (including 16 bits) or CMYK — optionally applied directly on a layer within Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.
Features:
• smoothes surfaces of all digital images to provide a glamorous look;
• smartblurring of all digital surfaces — five simple sliders provide very precise tuning of the smoothing while maintaining details;
• easy visual and single-click operation;
• anti-aging, smoothes surface while maintaining details;
• combine several adjustment in one click for the best image tuning;
• enhance digital images for print and web;
• work on RGB (including 16-bit support) and CMYK images; and
• save hours of very difficult manual retouching.
With AutoSmooth the professional or amateur photographer will enhance and change the age of the subject by reducing or enhancing imperfections or spots. For all ages (old skins with wrinkles, middleage with light spots, teens with blemishes) AutoSmooth enhances faces for a great look. The technique preserves edges and details and save hours of masking or airbrushing.
With AutoSmooth, get the best features available at a very affordable Plug-in price. AutoSmooth is a Plug-in and it will supports all versions of Photoshop from 7 to CS3, Photoshop Elements 2, 3, 4, and 5, Corel PaintShop, ULead, Microsoft Picture, Painter, and even Illustrator and FreeHand and more.
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Blow Up 2 - Alien Skin Software 005-010 - Photoshop Elements Plug-in
Blow Up® 2 is a Photoshop® plug-in that produces enlargements dramatically sharper than any other software, especially Photoshop! Blow Up uses an innovative algorithm that temporarily converts pixels to a vector representation which results in perfectly smooth, crisp edges. Simulated texture and film grain keep photos looking natural even in extreme enlargements. Blow Up can even clean up JPEG compression artifacts when a client insists on using a low quality source image from the Web.
Simplicity and Time Savings: Preparing photos for print can be surprisingly tedious, often requiring a pile of sticky notes with calculations involving dpi, aspect ratio, and cropping sizes. New features in Blow Up 2 are designed to take the complication out of this process.
Over 100 presets for common output sizes are available that make cropping and resizing easy to do in one step. When you load a preset, Blow Up 2 makes an intelligent guess about where to crop the image using the Auto Crop feature. The Auto Rotate feature adapts the preset to match your photo’s orientation. Blow Up applies the proper amount of output sharpening based on the paper type you choose.
Resizing many photos at once is now easy to do in a single step with Blow Up’s built-in batch processing tool. This tool is much easier to use than the multi-step process of creating a Photoshop action and then running it with Photoshop’s batch command.
Technology: Every bit of the latest technology has been added to Blow Up 2. Blow Up takes advantage of multi-processor and multi-core systems. The more processors/cores, the faster it runs. Even with just a plain old single processor, Blow Up 2 runs faster than Blow Up 1.
What's new in version 2: • Image Quality Image quality is improved in many ways. Results are sharper, both during upsizing and downsizing. Noisy images are handled better. Research from our Exposure product was used to improve simulated grain. You now have control over simulated natural texture.
• Output Sharpening There are now controls for output sharpening. Just choose your medium (paper type or Web) and Blow Up sharpens the right amount.
• JPEG Repair There is now a slider for cleaning up overly compressed JPEG images. When a client insists on giving you a blocky photo they found on the web, you can clean it up during the resizing process.
• Easy Batch Processing There is now a batch processing tool that comes with Blow Up 2. This requires much less clicking than recording a Photoshop action and then running Photoshop’s Automate->Batch command.
• Previewing and Cropping The previewing system has been completely redesigned. Zooming and cropping are integrated for improved workflow. The Crop to Size Tool is an easy way to crop and resize to a specific output size at the same time. Previewing is faster on multi-processor or multi-core computers.
• Settings There is now a Settings Tab with over 100 presets. You can also save your own settings. Settings let you easily choose a standard output size and medium, such as 8x10 Inkjet Matte Paper. Proper output sharpening is applied to match the paper type. Presets automatically rotate to fit the orientation of your image and find a suitable crop area.
• Huge Images You can resize up to 300,000 pixels per side, the maximum Photoshop can handle. Of course, Photoshop would choke on a square image that big, but if you are making a billboard that Photoshop can handle, so can Blow Up 2! Most other image resizing plug-ins can’t make photos larger than about 30,000 pixels on a side.
• Improved Interface
Blow Up handles the most sophisticated images demanding professionals can throw at it. Nearly every color space is supported, including Grayscale, Duotone, RGB, CMYK, and Lab. Most image resizing software only supports RGB color space and you have to pay an extra $140 to get CMYK support from our main competitor. All bit depths are supported, including 16-bits/channel (for Raw images) and 32-bits/channel (for HDR images). Blow Up is the only resizing plug-in that supports 32-bits/channel images.
Blow Up is the first major Photoshop plug-in that will work in the upcoming Windows 64-bit version of Photoshop CS4.
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Powerful masking for the most difficult photos within Photoshop Elements. Easy-to-use curves for color corrections. Create duotones, sepia, or perform color changes with Swap Element.
Features:
• Mask Module for density masking, fast and easy;
• Curves Module provides simple and intuitive color corrections; and
• Swap Module creates duotone/sepia, and optionally compare side by side.
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Essentials 2.1 for iPhoto is a collection of four tools to help you correct colour, add depth of field by realistically blurring the background, add creative borders and resize your photos to get a larger print. You'll spend less time behind the computer and more time behind the camera! Plus with its built-in tutorials and easy to use interface you'll be up and running in no time.
Essentials for Photoshop Elements is a collection of four tools to correct color, remove unwanted backgrounds, add creative borders, and resize photos to get a larger print. Users will spend less time behind the computer and more time behind the camera! With built-in tutorials and an easy-to-use palette, even beginners can be up and running in no time.
Like the original release, Exposure 2 is a Plug-in for Photoshop and compatible host applications. Exposure provides amateur and professional photographers, graphic designers, and photo retouchers with one-click access to the broadest range of film stock and special effects settings available anywhere. Exposure 2 delivers even more features that add the look and feel of film to digital photography. Users can easily simulate current and discontinued print and slide film stocks — both black and white and color — and subtly manipulate realistic grain, mimic darkroom effects such as push and cross processing, even save a signature look as a preset. What's more, everything in Exposure 2 is accessible in one simple interface.
Exposure 2 is the new, even more feature-packed version of our award-winning Photoshop Plug-in that gives digital photographs the look and feel of film. Whether you're a fashion or wedding photographer, a designer, or art director, with Exposure 2 you'll have one-click access to the broadest range of film stocks and special effects settings available in any software package. That's why Exposure 2 is the closest thing to film since film.
Pick a film, any film. When it comes to the variety of films you can simulate, Exposure 2 has no peer. Match the look of popular film stocks such as Portra, Velvia, Kodachrome, Polaroid, and TRI-X. We've even saved some films from extinction in Exposure 2, such as Agfa Scala, GAF 500, and Kodak EES.
It all comes down to grain. Exposure 2 provides the most realistic grain on the market, now with even more control over sharpness, color variation, and intensity throughout the tonal range; and since Exposure 2's grain size automatically adjusts to the image size, the user will get consistent results across all cameras.
More effective effects. With over 300 presets, Exposure 2 has even more special effects settings than before, including push and cross processing, a vastly improved infrared simulator, and sophisticated color to black and white conversion.
So easy to use. Exposure 2 simplifies workflow by collecting color, dynamic range, softness, and grain control into one easy-to-use Plug-in. Correct a colorcast, soften a digital portrait, or tweak contrast with our powerful slider and curve controls; or even define a signature look and save it as a one-click effect.
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Eye Candy 5: Impact, is a collection of ten Photoshop filters that create chrome, brushed metal, glass, bevels, shadows, reflections, and more. The third of three upgrades to Eye Candy 4000, Impact offers beautifully rendered effects that any novice or professional designer will appreciate.
Impact includes three all-new filters. Backlight projects dramatic light beam and spotlight effects. Brushed Metal simulates textured metal surfaces such as brushed aluminum and polished brass. Extrude gives two-dimensional objects a classic three-dimensional look, adding thickness and perspective.
In addition, Impact refines seven classic effects that made Eye Candy famous. Embossing effects now include surface textures and more bevel shapes. Gel, glass, chrome, and liquid metal effects now showcase a wide variety of vibrant reflections.
Impact includes over 200 presets for frequently used effects; find the perfect effect quickly. The improved settings-management system makes it easy to browse, share, and collect new settings.
Impact also works with 16-bit images. Color transitions are smoother, with less banding. Print documents reproduce colors more accurately.
Upgrade pricing is available for owners of other Alien Skin products.
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Nature, is a collection of ten Photoshop filters, which create fire, smoke, rust, snow, ice, and more. The second of a three-part upgrade to Eye Candy 4000, Nature offers beautifully rendered effects that any novice or professional designer will appreciate.
Nature includes four new filters and reincarnates six Eye Candy classics. The classic filters boast brand-new looks, greater realism, and improved ease-of-use. For example, select filters can create a new layer and render effects to it; this enables the user to view, edit, or turn off these effects without modifying the original layer.
Nature includes over 500 presets for frequently used effects; find the perfect effect quickly. The improved settings-management system makes it easy to browse, share, and collect new settings.
Nature also works with 16-bit images. Color transitions are smoother, with less banding. Print documents reproduce colors more accurately.
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Eye Candy 5: Textures, a Photoshop Plug-in, is a collection of ten seamless texture generators. The first of three upgrades to Eye Candy 4000, Eye Candy 5: Textures produces a wide variety of texture effects, including snake and lizard skin, fur, brick, stone, and wood. Graphic designers, web developers, and 3D artists can quickly create backgrounds, skins, seamless tiles, and more.
Relying on the contents of a stock-texture library limits creativity. Eye Candy 5: Textures creates a limitless variety of photorealistic surfaces for $99, the cost of a stock CD.
Tiling is quick and easy because every filter has a seamless-tile option. Eye Candy 5: Textures includes settings for over 200 frequently used effects. A new settings system makes it easy to explore these effects. The ability to save and export makes sharing settings a snap.
Eye Candy 5: Textures works with 16-bit images and does not compromise expanded color depth. Color transitions are smoother and print documents reproduce colors more accurately.
NOTE: Eye Candy 5 will be a three-part series.
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FXPak Styles - Human Software Company Inc., The 160-021 - Photoshop Elements Plug-in
Within Adobe Photoshop 6 or Photoshop Elements multiple effects may be applied at once on a layer or within a text. This is referred to as a style. FXPak Styles is a huge collection of beautiful styles at a very affordable price.
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Image Doctor - Alien Skin Software 005-005 - Photoshop Elements Plug-in
Image Doctor is an all new set of powerful image-correction filters for Photoshop, Fireworks, Paint Shop Pro, and other image editors. Image Doctor magically removes blemishes and defects, quickly repairs over-compressed JPEGs, and seamlessly replaces unwanted details and objects. Professional and amateur photographers, photo editors, archivists, graphic designers, and web designers can quickly fix their images with Image Doctor.
Image Doctor delivers these effects in a clean, easy-to-use interface. Users can tweak effects in a huge preview that includes a before/after toggle, command menus, keyboard shortcuts, and unlimited undo capability.
Image Doctor is the only filter set to offer selection-based image repair. Use the familiar selection tools of the image-editing application, then correct large and small areas in one pass. The intelligent pattern matching of Image Doctor makes it the perfect complement to existing photo-editing tools.
Features:
• smart fill replaces large objects and defects, intelligently combining the repair with the background;
• remove signs and trash from landscapes, unwanted tourists from vacation snapshots, and uninvited guests from party photos — without leaving seams;
• scratch remover mends small defects and removes unwanted background details making photo restoration such as repairing scratches, folds, creases, and wrinkles, a breeze;
• scratch remover offers the fastest way to cleanly eliminate text from a photo;
• spot lifter removes blemishes while preserving the texture and detail of the underlying image;
• ideal for erasing skin flaws such as moles, birthmarks, acne, beauty marks, or tattoos and for reducing dark circles, shadows, and wrinkles around the eyes;
• erases photo imperfections such as watermarks, stains, time codes, and dust;
• JPEG repair revitalizes over-compressed JPEGs;
• remove blocky compression artifacts while retaining detail and adding grain;
• repair an entire image, or repair as needed to smaller selections; and
• repurpose web graphics and replace lost originals.
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PhotoWeave - Human Software Company Inc., The 160-026 - Photoshop Elements Plug-in
PhotoWeave is a very powerful Plug-in for designing striped fabrics or adding many kinds of pattern effects to images.
Features:
• create warp and weft description with up to 16 yarn colors, or have a vignette (color ramp);
• use all the Photoshop color-selection tools available including PANTONE;
• set warp and weft pattern numerically, including nesting of parentheses;
• angle independently warp or weft;
• repeat the pattern independently in the x and y directions;
• choose different yarn thicknesses (fringe option) for warp or weft for realistic rendering; and
• layer the fabrics and pass them through stencils to simulate jacquard.
The weave-editor grid is customizable in x or y directions, and weave creation includes the ability to copy and/or extend weave in a selection, edit as the pattern is simulated, or flip and/or rotate the import.
Users can preview a weave and test a new one instantly on a fabric or save and add to a library. The fabric simulation is added to the current image and allows users to simulate weaving onto any kind of image. The Plug-in allows for creation or importing of a weave of up to 72 X 72 for infinite combinations, and it ships with more than 130 fabric simulations and 120 weaves. There is no limit to the number of new fabrics users can achieve.
With the powerful and fully editable layering mechanism, Actions may be added to combine layers of fabrics. PhotoWeave works with a layer principle so users can mix multiple fabrics or patterns in a single image. All this is happening inside Photoshop or any application compliant with Photoshop Plug-in specifications.
PhotoWeave offers an advanced interface with a large preview. It is fast, incredibly powerful, and easy. All new designs can be added to the library. All creations stay live until the end so changing one's mind is encouraged. PhotoWeave really feels like a full stand-alone application, but is conveniently available as a Plug-in.
Very intuitive buttons guide users in applying complex fabrics in a few clicks. Users choose among PhotoWeave fabrics either by browsing up or down the thumbnail previews list, which is organized under several categories (e.g., shape, border, pattern, edges, and so on) or by selecting an effect from the full alphabetical list.
PhotoWeave has been designed with the textile industry in mind, but many features have been added that make it perfect for all graphic designers. Among those effects is the ability to create vignettes and combine them along angled warp and weft threads. Used from within an image-editing application, the newly created image can easily be uploaded to an internet-compatible JPEG or JPG. PhotoWeave ready-to-apply fabrics will give all web pages or designs a distinctive and attractive look.
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SiteGrinder 2 - Media Lab 026-023 - Photoshop Elements Plug-in
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.
SiteGrinder automatically converts image and shape layers to web graphics and positions them perfectly on the resulting web pages. As it builds, SiteGrinder even eliminates redundant graphics and merges layers when possible to minimize download size.
SiteGrinder converts Photoshop type layers directly into styled CSS text on web pages. Photoshop character and paragraph styles are preserved including character and paragraph settings. Text can optionally scroll and have multiple hyperlinked phrases.
Text and image buttons are an integral part of any web page and SiteGrinder is the easiest way to make them. Buttons can have rollovers, and even popups by just adding the hints button,rollover, and popup to the end of layer names.
There are a lot of tools to create web portfolios, but SiteGrinder 2 Pro may be superior because it is simple, fast, totally flexible, and makes galleries that are organically part of the larger SiteGrinder site.
Creating navbars, menus, and submenus on web pages can be very tricky without SiteGrinder. Turn a single text layer into a multi-item menu by just adding the word menu to the end of the layer name. The submenus can be as deep as desired.
SiteGrinder generates an entire web site's worth of pages in a single pass. The user decides what elements (like a navbar) can appear on every page and what elements appear only on specific pages. Best of all, SiteGrinder buttons automatically link to matching pages — no tedious and error-prone entering of web addresses.
SiteGrinder 2 Pro employs a straightforward way to define multiple form elements in a single Photoshop type layer. Built in support for email forms makes it easy to add a contact page to a site. Generic forms are also supported. Use them for direction finding, searching, anything!.
SiteGrinder 2 supports custom background colors for different areas of pages. SiteGrinder 2 Pro adds a variety of easy-to-use background image-tile features, including vertical and horizontal repeating and backgrounds that remain in place as content scrolls.
SiteGrinder 2 Pro can take a folder of JPEGs and turn it into a cool, animated Flash slideshow for a site. Choose different transition styles, durations, and even assign hyperlinks for each slide.
SiteGrinder 2 Pro makes it easy to place multimedia elements on pages. Flash, animated GIF, QuickTime, and Windows video, and MP3 music are all built in; link to media from remote locations over the internet.
SiteGrinder 2 Pro can create page areas which adjust vertically on the fly if the browser changes font sizes or if the user edits the content of the area after SiteGrinder builds the pages. Footer elements positioned below these areas will move up or down as needed to accommodate the new size.
SiteGrinder is designed to hide the complexity of HTML and other web infrastructure, but for maximum adaptability SiteGrinder 2 Pro does allow advanced users to add arbitrary code to pages wherever they like. SiteGrinder 2 Pro can also intelligently import folders of HTML files when it builds to create a huge number of pages from a single page design.
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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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Beauty: Snap Art 2 is a Photoshop plug-in that turns your photography into beautiful works of art with a single click. Detailed simulation of individual brush strokes and canvas texture gives results that are indistinguishable from handmade art. The finished piece begs to be hung in a gallery, especially when printed on canvas.
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