Alien Skin plugins for Adobe Photoshop.
In the archive are:
Alien Skin Bokeh 1.0
Alien Skin Exposure 2.0
Alien Skin BlowUp 2.0.2
Alien Skin Image Doctor 2.0

Eye Candy 6 is a set of 30 Photoshop filters that elegantly handle a wide range of design tasks, from slick Web interfaces to tasteful logos to spectacular titles. Realistic simulation of natural phenomena gives beautifully detailed results.

Filters and Effects Collection for Adobe PhotoShop - A huge collection of plug-ins, filters and effects for Adobe PhotoShop (Petrosoft Platinum Series).
Title: Filters and Effects Collection for Adobe PhotoShop (filters and effects for Adobe PhotoShop)
Version: assembly
Language: English + Russian
Medicine: Yes
Platform: Windows All

Making movies, photos and DVDs is easy with Corel Digital Studio 2010. Find everything you need right here.

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

You can turn your favorite digital photos into realistic looking paintings such as watercolor, oil painting, pencils, etc. with a few simple mouse clicks. No difficult setup is required. Your photos are turned into paintings in front of your eyes in a few seconds.

Virtual Painter 5 could not be any easier to use -- all you need to do is to select a digital photograph, taken with a digital camera, scanned with a scanner, or downloaded from the web, select one of the 16 painting styles (also called painters or filters), choose the material on which the painting will be created (canvas, wood, stucco, etc.), and let Virtual Painter 5 do the work for you.

Virtual Painter 5 is not a painting tool that you must master to create your own works of art. Rather, the filters it offers are like agents, virtual artists who have their own characteristic techniques and methods. You can preview their art and even request a few changes, but you can leave the hard work to them. Sit back and watch them paint. You're sure to be pleasantly surprised, time after time.

Background Remover is a Photoshop-compatible plug-in for Windows designed by ImageSkill Software that can work with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Corel Paint Shop Pro, Macromedia Fireworks etc.

The main purpose of the Background Remover is to extract some part of an image i.e. 'the object' and remove part that which is unwanted, i.e. 'the background'. Background Remover can help you remove the background and make it transparent, leaving the complex objects in the picture. It can even remove the fine transparent parts between hair or lace and their backgrounds. The cut-out objects may be used for collage, scrap-book and greeting card creation.

Version 3.0 new features:
* Defringe zone brush tool for color unmixing was added. Using this tool you can extract semi-transparency objects like flying hair, glass objects, smoke and haze properly.
* New tool for lace-like object extraction was added.
* New sleek user interface, most of the tools were improved. Also added undo/redo feature.
* Tested and works fine with Photoshop CS3 and CS4!

Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 Ultimate combines ease of use with full professional power. Fix brightness, color and photo imperfections like red eye in a few clicks, or use precision photo-editing controls to create photos you’ll be proud to share.
The Ultimate edition features valuable extras like media recovery software, a creative content pack, Corel® Painter™ Photo Essentials 4 and a 2 GB Toshiba flash drive.

Alien Skin Software has announced Bokeh™, its new lens simulation plug-in for Adobe® Photoshop® and Photoshop Elements. Photographers use Bokeh to draw attention to their subject by manipulating focus and depth of field after the shot has been taken. From changing the depth of field to placing a radial sweet spot and adding a vignette, Bokeh has many tools for realistic blurring and altering the mood of a scene. Bokeh is the first software based on mathematics sophisticated enough to produce a natural blur and creamy highlights.

“Bokeh is the Japanese word for ‘blur’ and is a photographic term that refers to the visually-distinctive appearance of the out-of-focus areas in a photograph,” said Terence Tay, the lead developer of Bokeh. “Alien Skin’s Bokeh plug-in provides photographers with the creative freedom to manipulate the aesthetic quality of bokeh, including the ability to create heart and star-shaped bokeh highlights.”

Best Photoshop plug-ins for professional photo retouching.
Power Retouche Pro is actually a collection of 28 plug-ins for Photoshop (all versions), and programs compatible with the Photoshop plug-in architecture, like Paint Shop Pro and Corel Draw. You can also purchase the plug-ins individually, but the variety of tools makes the whole package a worthwhile investment. All plug-ins work in both 8 bit and 16 bit modes, and many can also work in alternate color spaces like LAB and CMYK.

Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 Ultimate combines ease of use with full professional power. Fix brightness, color and photo imperfections like red eye in a few clicks, or use precision photo-editing controls to create photos you’ll be proud to share.
The Ultimate edition features valuable extras like media recovery software, a creative content pack, Corel® Painter™ Photo Essentials 4 and a 2 GB Toshiba flash drive.

Overview
Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 has everything you need to create stunning photos. The integrated Learning Center and a selection of one-click photo-fixing tools make it easy to correct common photo flaws such as red eye, color and sharpness. Unique makeover tools let you whiten teeth, remove blemishes and paint on a tan, so you can make everyone look their best before printing or posting photos online.

As your skills and confidence grow, you can harness the power of professional-quality features such as HDR Photo Merge, Histogram, Curves and Levels Adjustment tools to make precision edits. You can even get creative with artistic effects and filters to turn your favorite photos into fun projects to share with family and friends.

Neat Image is a filter designed to reduce visible noise and grain in photographic images produced by digital cameras and scanners. Neat Image is indispensable in low-light (indoors, night, astro) and high-speed (sport, action) photography. It is a tool for both professional photographers and digital image processing enthusiasts.

Expand your creativity with Painter 11, the most inventive digital painting software on the market. By adding Painter to your workflow, you gain a full art studio that gives you the tools to create unprecedented artwork. Digital art tools let you experiment with color theory, composition and brush strokes, without the toxins, mess and expenses associated with traditional art. Support for the entire Wacom® product line, including industry-leading Cintiq® pens and Intuos® drawing tablets, gives you the most responsive digital painting experience so your hand and brush work fluidly as one. Customizable paper textures give your art added artistic undertones, plus a level of texture and detail that no other digital painting or photo-painting tools can produce. Painter is changing what's possible in art. Now it's your turn.

Corel Painter takes digital design to unprecedented levels with the revolutionary Artists' Oils Painting System, Snap-to-Path Painting, Quick Clone for photographers, and brushes that perform up to 10 times faster than in previous versions. Corel Painter enables some of the world's most accomplished creative professionals, including commercial designers, artists and photographers to extend their natural talents and techniques to create original works of breathtaking digital art.

Digital painting, sketching and illustration software

Corel® Painter™ X mimics traditional painting better than any other software. Unique digital brushes, art materials and textures help artists achieve the perfect composition, color palette and brush stroke. Ideal for professional artists, designers and photographers, it's a complete digital art studio.

Features

Corel Painter X offers a broad range of digital painting, sketching and illustration tools that inspire creativity, increase performance, and further extend file compatibility with other industry-standard tools and applications, such as Adobe® Photoshop®.
Increased Performance
Painter X is optimized to provide artists with the fastest version of Painter ever. Depending on system hardware, brushes perform up to 35% faster, while opening and saving files is up to 200% faster!

New! RealBristle™ Painting System
This new painting system heightens the responsiveness of the brushes and represents a major milestone for digital painting. You can now faithfully replicate the sensation and interaction between the paint, canvas and brush.

Alien Skin Software has announced Bokeh™, its new lens simulation plug-in for Adobe® Photoshop® and Photoshop Elements. Photographers use Bokeh to draw attention to their subject by manipulating focus and depth of field after the shot has been taken. From changing the depth of field to placing a radial sweet spot and adding a vignette, Bokeh has many tools for realistic blurring and altering the mood of a scene. Bokeh is the first software based on mathematics sophisticated enough to produce a natural blur and creamy highlights.

“Bokeh is the Japanese word for ‘blur’ and is a photographic term that refers to the visually-distinctive appearance of the out-of-focus areas in a photograph,” said Terence Tay, the lead developer of Bokeh. “Alien Skin’s Bokeh plug-in provides photographers with the creative freedom to manipulate the aesthetic quality of bokeh, including the ability to create heart and star-shaped bokeh highlights.”

Making the Subject Pop
A busy background or shooting with a narrow aperture can distract the viewer from the photographer’s subject. Bokeh can draw attention back to the subject in multiple ways. If the photographer selects the subject in Photoshop, Bokeh can blur the background to give the realistic impression that the shot was taken with a lower f-stop. This decrease in depth of field gets rid of visual clutter. This capability is useful for any photographer, but particularly for the many cameras without full-frame sensors.

The Decorator plug-in allows you to change the surface of an object in a realistic manner.
Select a part of an image – a dress on a girl, a car, a piece of furniture, etc, and apply new textures to it. The girl can have her dress painted in gay patterns, dotted or chequered, appear as if made of velvet or satin, or even of wood or candies. There is a great variety of built-in patterns to apply - from fabrics to stones and metal, from food to nature elements.

You can apply your own textures – just save a square pattern as a jpg file and load it into the library.

Unlike the "bucket-fill" tool in many photo editors, the plug-in follows the underlying features of the object, the texture that already exists, and makes the new color or texture look natural.

Applying a snake scale to a car’s surface can be fun, but of more practical use is to apply AKVIS Decorator for design purposes.
With this software you can quickly choose a suitable design for your apartment by playing with different colors and patterns for furniture, walls, curtains, decorations, etc. It’s useful for designers to show the customers the same room in different versions or for web-designers to represent the same items in an online shop (china-ware, blankets, clothes, piece of furniture, etc) in different colors/patterns.

By AKVIS tradition, the program has a simple interface, easy grasped even for newbies. In the plug-in’s window you go to the Texture tab and select a texture from the library (you can adjust its color and frequency of the pattern), press the Run button and get a wonderful result. If needed, you can adjust the brightness and the angle of lighting.
If all you need is just to change the color of the surface, then you go to the Color tab and choose a new color.

Graphic Workshop Pro is the image manager, graphic editor and viewer to convert, optimize, print, view, thumbnail, dither, transform, caption, flip, rotate, scale, crop, colour-adjust, quantize, catalog, batch process and wreak special effects on virtually all popular bitmapped graphic file formats. Browse your image collection, decode pictures from the Net, fine tune your digital photos, create photo-CD or self extracting EXE files and run slideshows. You can even play MP3, Wave, MIDI, AVI... Alchemy Mindworks designed it so you can use the bits you require, without the rest getting in your way.

Also included are: GIF Construction Set UltraLight with Animation Wizard; Camera screen capture for Windows 95/98/ME; Rotator to change your wallpaper or screen savers automatically; and Resource Extractor to locate and extract icons, bitmaps, sounds.
Multiple browser windows, drag and drop, thumbnail previews, Pentium-optimized functionality and more provide speed, flexibility and user-friendliness to manage and manipulate your graphic images.
We invite you to download a fully-functional evaluation copy of AMI Graphic Workshop Pro and try it out.

Support:
· Adobe Photoshop PSD/PDD
· AOL / Johnson-Grace ART
· AVI Video for Windows
· BGA OS/2 graphic arrays
· CALS Raster
· Canon CRW digital camera raw image files (requires RAW plugin)
· Casio digital camera CAM

Noise is a serious problem in digital imaging
In digital photography, the consumer- and prosumer-level cameras produce images with an easily noticeable noise component, which is especially strong in images taken at high ISO rates. Scanned photos contain a similar film grain component. The noise and grain reduce the visual quality of digital images and resulting printouts.

The solution to the noise problem: Neat Image
Neat Image is a digital filter specifically designed to reduce visible noise in digital photographic images produced by modern digital cameras, as well as film and flatbed scanners.

Three main reasons to choose Neat Image:

1. QUALITY OF NOISE REDUCTION
provided by Neat Image is higher than that of all other methods because:
Neat Image uses the most advanced noise reduction algorithms in the industry
Neat Image noise reduction algorithms are developed specifically for digital photography applications by a highly-qualified professional image processing research group. These algorithms surpass the quality of all classic noise reduction methods and even that of the wavelet-based methods. Although the wavelet-based methods were developed only 10-15 years ago and are still considered relatively modern, Neat Image uses an even newer and more efficient approach to noise reduction. This approach enables drawing a more clear distinction between noise and details in noisy images. This helps Neat Image reduce more noise and better preserve true image details in digital photos and scans.

Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 has everything you need to create stunning photos. The integrated Learning Center and a selection of one-click photo-fixing tools make it easy to correct common photo flaws such as red eye, color and sharpness. Unique makeover tools let you whiten teeth, remove blemishes and paint on a tan, so you can make everyone look their best before printing or posting photos online.

As your skills and confidence grow, you can harness the power of professional-quality features such as HDR Photo Merge, Histogram, Curves and Levels Adjustment tools to make precision edits. You can even get creative with artistic effects and filters to turn your favorite photos into fun projects to share with family and friends.

* Import pictures from your camera automatically
* Instantly fix common problems such as red eye, color and sharpness
* Add special effects to photos, text and projects with a few simple clicks
* Use advanced editing tools to fine-tune images on your own
* Print, email and share photos

A complete photo-editing software solution

Corel® Paint Shop Pro® Photo X2 makes photo editing easy with everything from automatic photo fixes to precision editing tools. Correct mistakes, make good photos better and create one-of-a-kind photo projects.

Overview
This digital photography toolkit is the ideal choice for any aspiring photographer, making it easy to process, edit, enhance and create professional-quality photos. Instantly fix common flaws with just one-click. Get creative with artistic effects and filters. Plus, explore a full range of advanced editing tools to get the exact look you want. Once you’ve created the perfect photo, choose from a variety of fun projects to share them with family & friends.

* Download pictures from your camera automatically
* Instantly fix common problems such as red eye, color and sharpness
* Add special effects to photos, text and projects with a few simple clicks
* Use advanced editing tools to fine-tune images on your own
* Print, email and share photos online

Digital painting, sketching and illustration software

Corel® Painter™ X mimics traditional painting better than any other software. Unique digital brushes, art materials and textures help artists achieve the perfect composition, color palette and brush stroke. Ideal for professional artists, designers and photographers, it's a complete digital art studio.

Features
Corel Painter X offers a broad range of digital painting, sketching and illustration tools that inspire creativity, increase performance, and further extend file compatibility with other industry-standard tools and applications, such as Adobe® Photoshop®.
Increased Performance
Painter X is optimized to provide artists with the fastest version of Painter ever. Depending on system hardware, brushes perform up to 35% faster, while opening and saving files is up to 200% faster!

New! RealBristle™ Painting System
This new painting system heightens the responsiveness of the brushes and represents a major milestone for digital painting. You can now faithfully replicate the sensation and interaction between the paint, canvas and brush.

Alien Skin Software develops filters for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe After Effects and Corel Paint Shop Pro. Graphic designers and digital photographers everywhere use our plugins for print, Web, and photo restoration work.

BlowUp 1.0.2
Exposure 2.0
Image Doctor 2.0
Eye Candy 5 Impact 5.5
Eye Candy 5 Nature 5.5
Eye Candy 5 Textures 5.5
Snap Art 1.1
Xenofex 2.5

Author: Ken McMahon
Publisher: Focal Press (December 10, 2007)
Language: English
Number of Pages: 318 / PDF 14.7 MB
ISBN-10: 0240520890
ISBN-13: 978-0240520896

No digital photographer should be without this Corel recommended guide!

HumanSoftware AutoCorrect v1.53
AutoCorrect is a very efficient one click color correction, it is not based on curves (even if we have added it for a perfect final tune-up) but based upon the techniques professionals are using in darkrooms. With AutoCorrect you get a professional picture enhancement tool in RGB ...directly on a layer of Photoshop if you wish...

HumanSoftware AutoDeNoise v1.8
Reduce Noise for sharper and crispier 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 AutoDeNoise is needed. The noise and grain reduce the visual quality of digital images and resulting prints.

HumanSoftware AutoFocus v1.0
HumanSoft AutoFocus will let you preview your image and examine very fast within a large preview window at the pixel level what is the level of denoise and deblur you wish to apply. The setting may be saved and apply over and over again in a couple of clicks.

A slim, but very powerful image and photo manipulation software
Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows XP or 2000.

Paint.NET is jointly developed at Washington State University with additional help from Microsoft, and is meant to be a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with all Windows operating systems.Paint.NET is a photo editor and manipulation software.

The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with GDI+ extensions.

Paint.NET has many of the powerful features that expensive commercial applications have, including the ability to use layers.

This is the second semester that Paint.NET has been a project at Washington State University, and we have the goal of adding as much functionality as expensive commercial applications provide, but of course, for free!

In the spirit of all this freedom, we welcome any suggestions, as well as provide the source code free of charge for anyone who wishes to tinker with it.

Paint.NET is an image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

Literally stamped with the approval seal of Corel, this book is more than just a guide to the features of the software. So many books are aimed at only the introductory level, but this guide explores all the capabilities of Paint Shop Pro Photo XI for digital imaging.

Achieve professional results with this complete and easy-to-follow guide to Corel's Paint Shop Pro Photo XI. Packed with a wide variety of real life workflow projects, eye-catching visuals and numerous tips and tricks, Paint Shop Pro Photo XI for Photographers gives you all the skills you need to create outstanding images.

All the new features of Paint Shop Pro Photo XI are covered including Snapfire, Photo Organizer, Skin Smoother, Photo Time Machine and much more. Get the best from Camera Raw images, create high-quality web graphics and learn how to efficiently organize your ever-expanding collections of digital photographs!

If you are an amateur digital photographer, web or graphic designer, and want to get stunning results with Paint Shop Pro, this Corel recommended guide is for you!

Corel KnockOut 2 dramatically increases the quality of your photo composites by letting you preserve fine image details that were once impossible to mask precisely.

Hair, smoke, shadows, water, transparencies and any blurred or out-of-focus edges can now be masked with incredible precision, speeding up the entire design process. Plus, Corel KnockOut 2 is an ideal plug-in for Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel PHOTO-PAINT® or Corel® Painter™ 8, so it fits seamlessly into your workflow.

When it comes to complex masking, you won't find anything more powerful than Corel KnockOut 2. Built as a plug-in for Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel PHOTO-PAINT and Corel Painter, it lets you retain the finest image details, including hair, smoke, liquid, fire, glass and shadows. And it does it with more speed and accuracy than any other masking technique.

If you've made Adobe Photoshop a key part of your tool set, Corel KnockOut 2 is an ideal fit. With shortcut keys, menus and commands like those in Adobe Photoshop, it slides right into your workflow. It's also designed for Mac® OS X, runs on Mac OS 8.6 to 9.1 and is available for Windows®, which gives you the freedom to work on the platform of your choice.

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. You can match the look of popular film stocks like Portra®, Velvia®, Kodachrome®, Polaroid®, and TRI-X®. We’ve even saved some films from extinction in Exposure 2, like Agfa® Scala®, GAF® 500, and Kodak® EES.

It all comes down to grain. Exposure 2 gives you 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 your image size, you get consistent results across all of your 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 your 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 your signature look and save it as a one-click effect.

Corel® Painter™ Essentials 4 is the simple-to-use home art studio that makes it easy for you to sketch, paint and turn your photos into paintings. Two new workspaces put the tools you need at your fingertips, whether you're turning a photo into a painting, or sketching and painting on a blank canvas. Based on the world's most powerful painting and illustration software, Corel® Painter™, it's the ideal way to get started with digital art!

Features:
This release of Corel Painter Essentials 4 offers a completely redesigned workspace that improves color selection and helps you discover different brushes, media and paper. With the new video tutorials and companion user guide, getting started has never been easier.

Photo Painting:
• NEW! Redesigned Photo Painting workspace: provides a tailored environment that includes all the tools you need to paint your photos
• NEW! Smart Stroke™ Technology: preset styles paint with intelligent brushstrokes that follow the forms of the original photo when autopainting
• NEW! Updated File format: Corel Painter Essentials 4 now saves the source image with your painting, making it easier to return to a project for further editing

Drawing and Painting: • NEW! Brush Drawer: selecting a brush easier is than ever before with brush stroke examples for each brush
• NEW! Mixer palette: helps you get the exact color you want
• NEW! Colors palette: lets you pick a color with a single click
• NEW! Tablet Support: the redesigned workspaces feature larger icons, buttons and sliders that are easier to navigate with a tablet