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Photoshop Plug-in Filters by Filter Forge
Get yourself some filters. In fact, get yourself almost 3,500 filters for generating textures, creating visual effects, enhancing photos, processing images with Filter Forge — probably the best source of filters for Photoshop anywhere. Check out examples of filters and the features Filter Forge offers.
30% Discounts
From the FilterForge site: The Mac version beta test is closed, and Filter Forge for Mac OS X is now officially released. To celebrate this, we offer all editions of Filter Forge, for both Windows and Mac, at a 30% discount — you can save up to $90.
- To get your discounts, visit the FilterForge Site.
Free Downloads at Filter Forge
First, let's get right to the free stuff! These are all for Windows PCs (Mac versions coming soon).
Freepack 1 — Metals
A set of seven photorealistic metal textures and effects. Metallizing effects, alien-looking or industrial metallic surfaces, rust or aluminum foil, and more — all filters are fully adjustable and support seamless tiling.
Go to Filter Forge's free download page.
Freepack 2 — Photo Effects
A set of seven photo enhancing effects. Give your photos a sunny style, apply grunge look or color tints, age the image, and more — all filters are fully adjustable and resolution-independent.
Go to Filter Forge's free download page.
Freepack 3 — Frames
A set of seven filters that create frames for your photos. Apply a realistic painted wooden frame or a vignette, give your photos a classic elegant feel or a ragged harsh look, and more.
Go to Filter Forge's free download page.
Freepack 4 — Distortions
A set of seven filters that can reshape, distort and deform the source image in various creative ways. The filters can break the image into abstract fragments, generate bubbly effects, apply waves or ripples, and more.
Go to Filter Forge's free download page.
Major Discounts at Filter Forge
Save 35% on Filter Forge Professional Edition — Mac OSX
Filter Forge — high-precision imagery, ultra-large bitmaps up to 65000x65000 pixels, bump and normal maps, and an unlimited number of CPU cores.
You can preorder this edition now at a 35% discount and save $104. The discount expires on March 1, 2009 so act quickly!
Features:
- Unlimited access to downloading filters
- HDRI lighting
- Command line renderer
- Unlimited number of CPU cores
- Support for 16- and 32-bit modes, and much more
Save 20% on Filter Forge Professional Edition — Windows Version
Filter Forge — high-precision imagery, ultra-large bitmaps up to 65000x65000 pixels, bump and normal maps, and an unlimited number of CPU cores.
You can order this edition now at a 35% discount and save $60. The discount expires on March 1, 2009 so act quickly!
Features:
- Unlimited access to downloading filters
- HDRI lighting
- Command line renderer
- Unlimited number of CPU cores
- Support for 16- and 32-bit modes, and much more
Unique to Filter Forge
There are three things that make Filter Forge unique:
- Create Your Own
- Filter Forge comes with a visual node-based editor allowing you to create your own filters — textures, effects, distortions, backgrounds, frames, you name it. All filters automatically support 16- and 32-bit modes in Photoshop, real-world HDRI lighting, bump and normal maps, huge resolutions and seamless tiling.
- Get Access
- You get free access to nearly 3,500 user-created filters. Anyone can contribute their textures and effects to the online filter collection so it grows with every submitted filter. This means the more people use Filter Forge, the better it gets.
- Contribute
- Contributors get Filter Forge for free. You submit filters, they get popular with the users, we send you a free copy of Filter Forge. Sounds simple but don't expect a giveaway, you will have to earn it.
Examples of Filters by Filter Forge for Photoshop
Obviously, this is just a tiny example of what's for offer. Visit the Filter Forge site to get all the details and view many more examples of their fine work.
Organics
Definitely, one of our favorites. Creepy, but excellent. This is a great filter for creating an oozing alien tissue effect.
- Check out our Organics page for more details and a larger view.
- Jump to the Filter Forge site to see it all.
Alien Metal
This is another one of our favorites. This sci-fi filter creates amazingly realistic chrome and metallic effects.
- Check out our Alien Metal page for more details and a larger view.
- Jump to the Filter Forge site to see it all.
TRON-2029
Create futuristic effects with this filter that produces stuff a lot like strange circuitry.
- Check out our TRON-2029 page for more details and a larger view.
- Jump to the Filter Forge site to see it all.
CyberGlow
Cyberpunk is not dead! This filter produces very nice glowing geometric designs with eight different variations.
- Check out our Cyberglow page for more details and a larger view.
- Jump to the Filter Forge site to see it all.
Decorative Tiles
Pretty much as it says. You get eight variations of decorative tiles — the patterns vary very slightly but the colors range from greens to earth tones to pearls, and more.
- Check out our Decorative Tiles page for more details and a larger view.
- Jump to the Filter Forge site to see it all.
Wood
The Wood Filter comes in eight fantastic variations which produce not only different grain patterns, but different hues also — rosewood, deep mahogany, pine, and more.
- Check out our Wood page for more details and a larger view.
- Jump to the Filter Forge site to see it all.
Crysta
Again, you get eight variations of these crystal effects — each with fantastically realistic lighting effects.
- Check out our Crysta page for more details and a larger view.
- Jump to the Filter Forge site to see it all.
Metal Storm
This is a fantastic sci-fi metallic texture that comes in, yes, eight variations of chromes, blacks, golds, reds, and more.
- Check out our Metal Storm page for more details and a larger view.
- Jump to the Filter Forge site to see it all.
Mithril
The inventor of Mithril must have been a Tolkien freak — Mithril was the fictional precious metal in his writings. And, yes, the eight variations of this filter resemble molten, lava-like metal. Very cool.
- Check out our Mithral page for more details and a larger view.
- Jump to the Filter Forge site to see it all.
Electricity
Electric discharge effects — always one of our favorites, and these are great. They come, like the others, in eight variations of branching, thickness, and color.
- Check out our Electricity page for more details and a larger view.
- Jump to the Filter Forge site to see it all.
Blocky
Now you can have your own set of digital blocks that come in different colors and different patterns — rectangle, trapezoid, rhombus, pyramid, and more.
- Check out our Blocky page for more details and a larger view.
- Jump to the Filter Forge site to see it all.
Peeling Paint
Being big fans of dilapidation and decay, this is another one of our favorites.
- Check out our Peeling Paint page for more details and a larger view.
- Jump to the Filter Forge site to see it all.
Free Photoshop Brushes
Visit our brushes page and get links to an amazing selection of brushes for Adobe Photoshop, including a preview of and links to Javier at Deviant Art. He has an enormous variety of brushes like Abstract, Fractals, Grunge, and many more. Another great source for brushes is psbrushes.net — they're billed as the largest resource for Photoshop brushes. And lest we forget, don't miss getbrushes.com — they are another source of an amazing number of free brushes for Photoshop.
Photoshop CS3 Resource Center
Download and purchase Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended from Adobe Labs and start enjoying the upgrades and enhancements of the program. For news, reviews, and articles on all things CS3, visit our Photoshop CS3 Resource Center, and for the latest CS3 tutorials, go to our CS3 Tutorials page.
Fluid Mask 2.0 — Special Offer — US$189
Order Fluid Mask through us and get a special discount — you pay only US$189 and you get 6 months of free upgrades. This offer is exclusive to photoshop-pro.com and to take advantage of it, visit our Fluid Mask Discount Page. To find out more about this software, what it does and how it does it, visit our Fluid Mask page.
As a short preview of this extraction tool (taken from their site), you might know that Fluid Mask is a highly advanced software tool designed to make life easier for everyone who creates cut outs. Built as a plug-in to Adobe Photoshop, Fluid Mask is the new next-generation cut-out tool. Behind the product is breakthrough technology that mimics the way the eye, optic-nerve and brain perform visual processing. It offers an intuitive, accurate and fast approach to cut outs. A key feature is the new Edge Overlay showing object edges within an image. Suddenly masking become a whole lot easier - it's now possible to select, group and mask objects in images to make great cut outs.
SiteGrinder: designing websites with Photoshop
You don't need to know any code (e.g. HTML, CSS) or learn a new development application to make a great-looking website. With SiteGrinder, you use your Photoshop design skills and the site is automatically created for you.
In Photoshop, you do all the designing while adding relevant names to your layers. You then open SiteGrinder from the Automate menu in Photoshop, and build your site. SiteGrinder incorporates full functionality in the ability to create buttons, rollovers, multiple pages, email forms, menus, and more. What's nice about this product is that you can stick to all the creative stuff and let SiteGrinder grind out all the tedious code.
Free Photoshop Plugins
This one of our most popular pages. Go to our free plugins page to find links to the latest Photoshop plugins, information, and resources. You'll also find links to commercial plugins like Alien Skin, Extensis, Auto FX software, Xaos Tools, Photozoom, Photomatix, and many more.
Free Photoshop Actions
Check out our free Photoshop actions page to find links to the latest and greatest actions from sources like Adobe Studio Exchange, the Adobe Evangelists, Action Central, Action FX, and PicsToBits Actions.
You'll also find news about actions and an introduction to actions with links to excellent tutorials.
Recover Your Photos
Catastrophic disc failures are just waiting to happen. If you're not prepared, you may lose an entire life's work, but not now. Visit our Recover Your Photos page and discover a wealth of resources and links to immediately recover digital photo files from a catastrophic hard drive failure or a corrupted media card. For total hard drive crashes, check out DriveSavers. They specialize in providing expert recovery from HD failure. Also, get information on and links to PhotoRescue which is an extremely popular solution for recovering photos.
Can't Get Enough Fonts
Let's face it — you can never have enough fonts. Searching for good fonts is a past time of ours and we believe we've found some excellent ones.
Visit our free fonts page for an extensive list of links to font resources. We also have some links here to commercial font sites if you want to buy some.
Free Stock Photos
Contrary to popular belief, there are many places on the internet which offer free stock photos. If you are in the middle of a project where you need some, visit the page below for all the links.
If you're looking for stock images for free, visit our free stock photos page.
Header photo credit
This is a picture of a pond with mist taken by Christopher Swift of Swift Images.
The Search
Photomatix
Create amazing high dynamic range images using Photomatix Pro software. View some examples of the kind of images which Photomatix can produce.
SiteGrinder
Create websites from Photoshop with Site Grinder software. You do the creative part, it does the coding.
Videos
For those who learn best by visual means, we have an excellent selection of video tutorials from Christopher Swift.
Alien Skin
Add some zest to your Photoshop work with plugins by world renowned Alien Skin, featuring Snap Art, Eye Candy, and Exposure.
Fluid Mask
Extract images from their backgrounds with uncanny precision using Fluid Mask. Take a tour of Fluid Mask and find out how amazing it is.
Special discount price when ordering Fluid Mask through us!
Photozoom
Enlarge your images to enormous proportions with virtually no loss in sharpness or detail with Ben Vista software — Photozoom Pro 2.
Books
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Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book
The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book
CS3 Resources
Auto FX
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Wacom
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Resources
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