Photoshop Notes

AutoFX Mystical Tint Tone and Color 2.0: The Indezine Review

2009-08-29T15:45:00.002+05:30

Mystical Tint Tone and Color 2.0 is a Photoshop compatible plug-in which includes filters for improving and enhancing photos color and tonal qualities. There are 60 effects in all, and each of these effects can be customized and even combined with other effects. The plug-in contains over 300 instant preset looks, effect combinations and settings. You can also capture looks as presets, and re-use them on other photos The new portrait filters allows you to enhance skin, hair, eyes, lips and facial and features.

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AKVIS MultiBrush 4

2009-05-06T12:13:00.000+05:30

AKVIS MultiBrush is a Photoshop compatible plug-in that allows to enhance photos and retouch portraits. . The plug-in is a new enhanced version of AKVIS Stamp. AKVIS MultiBrush performs picture enhancements, removes unwanted objects from digital pictures such as spots, stains, or even unwanted elements in a photograph. A useful tool for portraits which allows the user to remove wrinkles, scars, scratches, and enhances imperfect skin, this plug-in also available as a standalone application that runs independent of Adobe Photoshop.

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3D Invigorator

2009-04-28T09:33:00.001+05:30

3D Invigorator is a Photoshop compatible plug-in that allows you to create 3D objects within Photoshop using Adobe Illustrator files and fonts. With 3D Invigorator, you can easily model a 3D objects, create 3D logos based on the vector files, and add depth, bevel, and other 3D features, and apply multiple lights and materials such as reflective, transparent, or bump textures to the object for more realistic output. You can do this all without using any other application, such as 3D Studio Max or similar.

3D Invigorator is from Digital Anarchy, a company based in San Francisco, USA that specializes in special effect filters for image editing and video programs. Digital Anarchy also creates other Photoshop compatible plug-ins like Primatte Chromakey 3, ToonIt!, Backdrop Designer, etc. Digital Anarchy markets 3D Invigorator for Zaxwerks.

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AKVIS Retoucher 3.5

2009-04-24T10:30:00.001+05:30

Retoucher is a Photoshop compatible plug-in that removes dust, scratches, stains, etc from old damaged photos. It also lets you remove date stamps that some cameras add to photographs. In addition, it also reconstructs missing parts of a photo using the information of the surrounding areas. Retoucher works automatically, you only need to indicate areas to be restored, and the rest of the process is taken care by the plug-in. The resultant image surfaces becomes smooth with less scratches.

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Digital Anarchy ToonIt!

2009-02-11T12:16:00.000+05:30

ToonIt, a photo cartooning Adobe Photoshop compatible plug-in uses advanced algorithms to process your image and create cartoon-style shading and lines. You could do all this manually using time consuming techniques like rotoscoping and hand painting -- but it's so much easier and interactive doing it with ToonIt.

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AKVIS ArtWork 1.0

2008-11-27T16:46:00.000+05:30

AKVIS ArtWork, a Photoshop compatible plug-in transforms your pictures by imparting professional painting styles to them. The plug-in provides a realistic painted effect by using various algorithms that add tweaks like twisted geometric lines.

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AKVIS Contest: Conversation with Katerina Kharina

2008-11-22T12:32:00.002+05:30

AKVIS, creator of various Adobe Photoshop plug-ins has announced a holiday season contest -- in this conversation Katerina Kharina of AKVIS tells us more.

Geetesh: Tell us more about the various contests you have launched.

Katerina: This time, we have launched three contests:

New Year Collage -- the task consists in creating a New Year photo collage using any AKVIS programs and the provided photos, available on the contest page. You can also add elements from your images, but the provided photos should be the basis for the photo collage.
Four Seasons -- turn summer to winter, winter to autumn! Everything is possible with AKVIS software! Take one of the provided photos, and use one or several AKVIS programs (+ any other tools) and try to change the season on a photo. You should use the given photos.
Greet Santa Claus! -- in this contest you should disguise yourself as Santa Claus or even as his reindeer. The main condition is to use AKVIS programs. Use your photos, or photos of your relatives, friends (if they agree).

Geetesh: How well do AKVIS products work in the contest workflows?

Katerina: A participant should use at least one of our software, or more, even all our programs. He or she can also use tools from other developers, for example, Photoshop.

More details can be found on the contest site -- entries must be submitted by December 29th, 2008.

Seamless Patterns in Illustrator

2008-11-19T11:03:00.001+05:30

The new issue of the ShutterStock newsletter has a link to this easy tutorial on creating patterns in Illustrator. And it is really easy -- a great way to create patterns that you can use in both Illustrator and Photoshop.

Learn here...

AKVIS Magnifier 2.0

2008-11-11T10:48:00.000+05:30

If you tried resizing an image larger than its actual size, you might have come across the problem where the quality of the image gets degraded and pixelated.

AKVIS Magnifier, a Photoshop compatible plug-in upscales the images with advanced enlargement algorithms, preserving the edge to edge image sharpness while improving image appearance by removing unwanted noise and compression artifacts.

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AKVIS LightShop 2.5

2008-10-30T10:40:00.000+05:30

AKVIS LightShop 2.5 is a Photoshop compatible plug-in -- it's an updated version of a product we have reviewed in the past. This updated version introduces new ready-to-use light effects, improves compatibility with Microsoft Windows Vista SP 1, and adds a new interface language (Portuguese).

AKVIS LightShop 2.5 can be downloaded as a standalone application, a plug-in version for Adobe Photoshop CS3 or Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.

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Focus on MisterClipping.com

2008-08-07T20:59:00.003+05:30

Do you need to make clipping paths on your pictures often? Photoshop has evolved through the versions to make this much easier than before -- yet there's nothing better than getting someone else to do this. It's even better if you don't have to pay sky high rates for something like this, and if you can get these back the same day. MisterClipping.com promises all this, and while I still haven't tested it out, it looks quite good on the surface.

One of these days, I might use their promotional code and open a free account to try -- but meanwhile, you want to take a look at their site, as shown in Figure 1 below.

Figure 1: The MisterClipping.com site