Free Adobe Photoshop Plugins & Photoshop Plugins Discounts

We have full product pages and special exclusive discounts on Adobe Photoshop Plug-ins, including exclusive 15% specials on onOne Software's Genuine Fractals, Mask Pro, PhotoFrame Pro, Nik Sharpener, The Photoshop Plugin Suite, and the very new and exciting PhotoTools and PhotoTools Pro Edition.

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Exclusive onOne Software 20% Instant Discount Coupon
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Exclusive 20% Discount On onOne Software Plugins - Including Genuine Fractals 6, Plugin Suite Collection 4 - 20% Coupon Code

Enter discount coupon code PSSPPT06 during the checkout process at onOne Software for an instant 20% discount on any onOne Software product. This is a special offer exclusively for PhotoshopSupport.com visitors. This includes 20% on Genuine Fractals and the Photoshop Plugin Suite.

Genuine Fractals 6 adds several new features designed to help photographers get the best enlargements possible. These new features include texture presets, a new gallery wrap function, batch processing, tiling for smaller printers and support for Adobe Photoshop CS4, Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2. Plug-In Suite 4.5 includes full versions of the following onOne Software products:

Genuine Fractals 6 Professional Edition can resize digital images over 1000% with no loss of detail or sharpness. Version 6 now includes texture presets, a gallery wrap feature, batch processing, tiling for small format printers, and support for Lightroom and Aperture.
PhotoTools 2 Professional Edition is a flexible yet powerful Photoshop plug-in that utilizes the power of Photoshop Actions to provide a complete library of effects.
PhotoFrame 4 Professional Edition can be used to create stunning border and edge effects that look like they came out of the darkroom. Users can select from over a thousand edges, including authentic film and artistic mediums.
Mask Pro 4.1 easily creates high-quality masks and selections even from tough subjects like hair and glass, making it easy to place a subject in a new background.
PhotoTune 2.2 provides professional quality color correction in an easy-to-use interface. PhotoTune 2.2 includes ColorTune for general color correction and SkinTune for color correcting skin tones accurately.
FocalPoint 1.0 simulates selective focus or tilt-shift lenses, helping photographers blur and/or vignette an image to focus a viewer's attention.

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Photoshop Plugin Suite 4 Super Special 20% Discount

Plug-In Suite 4 includes 6 Photoshop plugins that help you maximize the power of Photoshop. You get Genuine Fractals 5 Print Pro for high-quality enlargements, PhotoTools 1 Professional Edition, Mask Pro 4 for removing backgrounds, PhotoFrame 4 Professional Edition for the perfect finishing touch to your photos, PhotoTune 2 for professional quality color correction and FocalPoint 1 for adding selective blur and vignettes to your photos (read more about each below).

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Genuine Fractals 6 Print Pro
Genuine Fractals 6 Print Pro Photoshop plugin is the industry standard for image resizing. It is renowned across the photographic and printing industries for its ability to increase image size well over 1000% without the loss of sharpness or detail that you would normally expect. Its patented, fractal based interpolation algorithms work like nothing else and the results speak for themselves.

Genuine Fractals 6 Print Pro is a must for any photographer who makes large format and poster sized prints. Its also great for journalists, sports and wildlife photographers who may need to take a cropped section of an image and make a high-quality print from it. Genuine Fractals 5 plug-in can even work its magic with digital video still frames "up-rezzing" from standard-definition to high-definition video quality.

PhotoTools Professional Edition
Whether you are new to photography and have never experienced the darkroom or you are an experienced pro who has mastered photography you will appreciate the range of authentic camera, filter and darkroom techniques reproduced with PhotoTools Professional Edition plugin for Photoshop. PhotoTools Professional Edition contains 250 effects by Jack Davis, Kevin Kubota and onOne Software that faithfully reproduce camera filters like neutral density, color correction and polarization as well as darkroom techniques and alternative processes like solarization, cyanotype and more.

PhotoFrame Professional Edition
PhotoFrame 4 Professional Edition really puts you into the digital darkroom. It is now easier than ever to add realistic film and darkroom edge effects to your images. You can also add artistic edges like torn paper, brush strokes or even create full-on layouts with backgrounds, textures and adornments. Add the perfect finishing touch to your images with a library of professionally created edge effects and design elements allowing you to create an infinite number of effects that really make your images stand out.

Mask Pro
Mask Pro 4.1 is the Photoshop plugin recommended by Advanced Photoshop magazine that allows you to cut out a subject from the background by assigning keep and drop colors and simply painting away the background. Mask Pro 4.1 makes it easy to create masks, selections and clipping paths on difficult subjects like hair, glass and fog all in real-time. The built-in tutorials allow you to quickly learn how to mask even the most complex images.

PhotoTune
PhotoTune 2.2 is an Adobe® Photoshop plugin that provides professional level color correction in an easy to use plugin. PhotoTune 2.2 incorporates ColorTune technology (formerly known as 20/20 Color MD) with its patented color correction process and SkinTune technology, developed after more than two years of in-depth skin color research. PhotoTune 2.2 makes the tedious and time-consuming task of color correction simple and straightforward to improve your post-processing workflow. Learn more about PhotoTune plug-in for Photoshop.

FocalPoint
FocalPoint plugin for Photoshop gives photographers a way to create realistic depth of field control, plane of focus control and selective focus to any image after it is photographed allowing for more control and precision. The focus bug control in FocalPoint has a tangible, hardware feel much like using a lens. It makes it fast for a photographer to define the "sweet spot" either in a round shape or a plane and then control how much and of what kind of blur they would like to add.

Nik Software 15% Instant Discount - Exclusive 15% Coupon

Enter our exclusive discount coupon code - NIKPSS - during the checkout process at Nik Software for an instant 15% discount on any Nik Software product. This exclusive discount coupon code can be applied to all the latest Nik Software Photoshop plugins, including Silver Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, Viveza, Sharpener Pro, and Dfine.

Color Efex Pro 3.0
52 photographic filters with over 250 effects for professional quality images. Completely Original. Completely Indispensable.

Nik Software Color Efex Pro 3.0 filters are the leading photographic filters for digital photography. The award-winning Color Efex Pro 3.0 filters are widely used by many of today's professional photographers around the world to save time and get professional level results. Whether you choose the Complete Edition, Select Edition, or Standard Edition, you’ll get traditional and stylizing filters that offer virtually endless possibilities to enhance and transform images quickly and easily.

Patented U Point technology provides the ultimate control to selectively apply enhancements without the need for any complicated masks, layers or selections. Control color, light and tonality in your images and create unique enhancements with professional results. With 52 filters and over 250 effects found in Color Efex Pro 3.0, you can perform high quality retouching, color correction, and endless creative enhancements to your photographs. Download a free Trial version.

Viveza
The most powerful tool to selectively control color and light in photographic images without the need for complicated selections or layer masks.

Two of the most important factors in creating great photography are color and light. Mastering the art of selectively correcting or enhancing each of these is now possible for every photographer without the need for complicated masks or selections, or expert-level knowledge of Photoshop. Integrating award-winning U Point technology, Viveza is the most powerful and precise tool available to control light and color in photographic images.

U Point powered Color Control Points, placed directly on colors or objects in an image (such as sky, skin, grass, etc.), reveal easy-to-use controls that photographers can use to quickly adjust brightness, contrast or color in a fraction of the time needed by other tools. With Viveza you’ll spend more time shooting photographs and save hours of image editing. Download a free Trial version.

Silver Efex Pro
Complete power and control to create professional quality black and white images in one convenient tool.

Silver Efex Pro from Nik Software is the most powerful tool for creating professional quality black and white images from your photographs. For the first time, all the advanced power and control required for professional results have been brought together in one convenient tool.

Featuring Nik Software’s patented U Point technology to selectively control the tonality and contrast of the image, Silver Efex Pro includes advanced imaging algorithms to protect against unwanted artifacts, a comprehensive collection of emulated black and white film types, a variable toning selector for adding traditional toning techniques, over 20 one-click preset styles, and a state-of-the-art grain reproduction engine that help produce the highest quality black and white images possible from your color images while providing more freedom to experiment. Download a free Trial version to use Silver Efex Pro.

Enter our exclusive discount coupon code - NIKPSS - during the checkout process at Nik Software for an instant 15% discount. This exclusive discount coupon code can be applied to all the latest Nik Software Photoshop plugins, including Silver Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, Viveza, Sharpener Pro, and Dfine.

Photoshop Masking Plugin Fluid Mask 3 - $20 Discount Special - $129

The 4 1/2 out of 5 star review of Fluid Mask 3 at MacWorld begins by saying that this "Photoshop plug-in takes the pain out of extracting backgrounds," and goes on to recommend the latest version, stating that "Fluid Mask 3.0.2 is a very effective tool for separating objects from their backgrounds. It offers a variety of useful features for tackling almost any difficult image, from wispy hair to complex foliage. Online video tutorials and live training sessions help ease the learning curve."

Our friends at Vertus, the makers of Fluid Mask 3 Photoshop Plugin, have set up a special exclusive discount for PhotoshopSupport.com. Just follow this discount link and instantly get $20 off your purchase of Fluid Mask 3. You pay only $129.

Fluid Mask 3 is designed for photographers, image editors, graphic designers and all those who take digital image editing seriously. In a streamlined interface and workflow, Fluid Mask 3 instantly shows key edges in the image and provides comprehensive easy to use tools that work with difficult-to-see edges and tricky areas like trees & lattices. Features include:

Photoshop Plugins Genuine Fractals 6 & Genuine Fractals Print Pro 6 - Plus Exclusive 20% Discount Coupon Code

onOne Software has announced the immediate availability of its Photoshop CS4 compatible Genuine Fractals 6 and Genuine Fractals Print Pro 6 Photoshop plug-ins. Featuring improved scaling technology, faster performance, several new features, a new user interface and greater ease of use, Genuine Fractals 5 now enables users to enlarge their digital images over 1000% (10,000% area equivalent) with no loss in image quality.

Exclusive 20% Discount On All onOne Photoshop Plugins
Enter our exclusive discount coupon code - PSSPPT06 - during the checkout process at onOne Software for an instant 20% discount on all onOne products.

"Since its original introduction 10 years ago, Genuine Fractals software has defined the category for high-quality image-scaling and ease of use to become the industry standard for image enlargements," said Craig Keudell, president of onOne Software. "Perfect for any photographer who needs to make sharp large format and poster sized prints as well as graphic designers, this complete overhaul of Genuine Fractals makes it easier than ever to produce prints with no loss of sharpness or details from their digital image files." Read the full article and review.

Mister Retro Machine Wash Photoshop Plugins 4-CD Bundle

Mister Retro has combined all four Machine Wash Image Filter Volumes I-IV into a single bundle for one low price. Each volume contains 60 Image Filters to texturize, age, and weather layered artwork in Photoshop.

The bundle collection includes all 240 weathering, distress, and tactile effects on four CDs. Here's a link to the Machine Wash 4-CD Bundle, and below you'll find a link to a live online testdrive where you can use a pulldown menu to see how the actual Photoshop plugin filter effects look.

Machine Wash Vol I, II, III, IV Filters - $49.95 each
View the Machine Wash Vol I Filters.
View the Machine Wash Vol II Filters.
View the Machine Wash Vol III Filters.
View the Machine Wash Vol IV Filters.

Machine Wash Filters FAQ
What applications can I use these filters in?
These filters have been developed and tested for use with Adobe Photoshop 6.0 to the current CS3 version as well as now supporting Photoshop Elements 1.0 and higher.

When I apply the filter, is it undoable?
Yes it is! While the wash effect will be applied to your original image, by using the Undo command or the Photoshop History palette, you can undo the wash effect.

How do I get the cool rusted background effect?
Within the plug-in interface, there is a Heavy Cycle option which will create a rust coloration effect underneath the distressed design. You can easily customize the coloration of the rust to your choosing by way of clicking the foreground and background rust colors to pull up a color picker.

Are the filters customizable?
You can use any number of additional built-in Photoshop effects to modify the filters once they're applied, We've created a bonus online forum with sections that teach you how to extend the range of effects these filters can create and modify the look of the wash effects.

Visit the Mister Retro site for more info.

Permanent Press Image Filter - Photoshop Plugin From Mister Retro

With Permanent Press, a powerful and easy-to-use Photoshop plug-in, you can create professional quality vintage offset printing and ink effects with any design, photograph, type treatment or image.

Realizing that printing technology has left printed work without the texture, soul, or the spirit of vintage printing, Mister Retro created the Permanent Press Photoshop Plugin set.

Take any design, photograph, type treatment, or image and transport them to another time and aesthetic with this powerful and easy-to-use plug-in GUI interface. Read more about this new Photoshop Plugin.

Photoshop Plug-In Mask Pro 4 – Plus Exclusive 20% Instant Discount Coupon Code

Mask Pro 4.1 is onOne’s latest masking and selection plug-in program, that enhances the basic capabilities of Photoshop, allowing for vastly more accurate selections and masks than we’ve seen to date. Its specialty is to assist the user in creating and making selections on objects in images.

(Enter our exclusive discount coupon code - PSSPPT06 - during the checkout process at onOne Software for an instant 20% discount on all onOne products, including Mask Pro.)

Mask Pro 4.1 plug-in for Photoshop provides a complete collection of tools that cater to the gamut of masking projects. These include:

• the Magic Brush which will remove colors while maintaining transparency
• the Chisel which helps to get the edges of your image perfect with no edge halos
• several new "Show Me How” video tutorials, built directly into the program for instant visual training
• a Tutorial & Tool Tips palette that provides the user with a running menu on time-saving tool tips and usage.
• a well written and illustrated PDF Users Guide
• improved navigators and
• a new Tip and Shortcut palette

Randy Brandon of www.akappleug.org says "The most sought after, and perhaps favorite feature of Mask Pro 4 is its ability to make transparent selections of such objects as bubbles, glass, etc." Read full article and review.

Photoshop CS4 & Photoshop CS4 Extended - Best Deals From Adobe

Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended feature a newly refined, tab-based interface in a single, integrated window, with self-adjusting panels arranged in docked groups. Automatically keeping tools well organized and away from your work area means you get greater efficiency, less clutter, and better results, faster than before.

Delivering all the features of Adobe Photoshop CS4 software, including the new Adjustments and Masks panels, Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended also provides breakthrough 3D editing and compositing power to paint directly on 3D models, create 3D animations, convert 2D images to 3D objects, and more; richer motion graphics editing; and more powerful and flexible image analysis and tracking. Learn more on our Photoshop CS4 Tutorials Page. To download the free trial, see details on our Photoshop CS4 Free Trial Download Page.

Find upgrade options and package deals at the Adobe USA Store. Teachers and students get special pricing at the Adobe Education Store. You can also buy in your country currency and language at the following Adobe International Stores:
Adobe United Kingdom  |  Adobe Germany  |  Adobe France  |  Adobe Eastern Europe

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium - Complete CS4 Bundle

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium software is the designer's dream toolkit for print, web, and mobile publishing. Creativity is rarely confined to one medium, so put your vector illustrations in motion, moving fluidly between Adobe Illustrator CS4 and Adobe Flash CS4 Professional. And use Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended to design and slice a web page for publishing with Adobe Dreamweaver CS4.

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium combines essential tools for producing everything from professional page layouts to rich interactive experiences in a unified, intuitive environment. Also includes Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro, Adobe InDesign CS4, plus Adobe Fireworks CS4.

Buy now or download the free trial at the Adobe USA Store, or buy in your country currency and language at the following Adobe International Stores:
Adobe United Kingdom  |  Adobe Germany  |  Adobe France  |  Adobe Eastern Europe

AutoFX PhotoGraphic Edges - Review
Review by Jennifer Apple

A few years ago I was in charge of putting together a monthly film magazine and I was constantly looking for ways to make the pages look more visually appealing. Photo/Graphic Edges came to the rescue! I could select a frame or edge, make a couple of quick tweaks, and suddenly I had a highly stylized photo to drop into the layout.



To show the various effects of Photo/Graphic Edges I've used just one single image. This will make it easier to see just how much the mood and feeling of a photo can be changed by incorporating different edges and frames.

Read the full PhotoGraphic Edges review (includes link to free demo).

PhotoTools and PhotoTools Professional Edition (20% Discount)

onOne has announced two new digital imaging software plug-ins - PhotoTools and PhotoTools Professional Edition. onOne Software's new PhotoTools is a flexible yet powerful new Photoshop plug-in that utilizes the power of Photoshop Actions to provide a wide range of imaging tools including effects, corrections and production automation in a full-featured interface. PhotoTools allows users to preview effects individually or combined/stacked together in a layer-like configuration as well as save their favorite combinations as presets to be used in the future.

Exclusive 20% Discount On All onOne Photoshop Plugins
Enter our exclusive discount coupon code - PSSPPT06 - during the checkout process at onOne Software for an instant 20% discount on all onOne products.

"Whether a user is new to photography or an experienced professional, they will appreciate the range of authentic camera, filter and darkroom techniques that can be easily replicated with PhotoTools," said Craig Keudell, president of onOne Software. "Working with well-known and respected photographers and educators Jack Davis and Kevin Kubota, we have been able to reproduce their signature Photoshop techniques with the simplicity of a single click that users are sure to appreciate. Every photographer and graphic artist will enjoy having onOne PhotoTools in their Photoshop effects plug-in collection for it's versatile range of creative effects and the simplicity of finding and applying these effects to their images."

Read the full PhotoTools & PhotoTools Pro review.

Akvis Photoshop Plugins

Visit our Akvis page to find info on Akvis Enhancer, Akvis Retoucher, Akvis Decorator, Akvis Photo-To-Sketch, Akvis Frame Suite, and Akvis LightShop.

AKVIS Sketch Plugin: Photo-to-Sketch Conversion

AKVIS has announced the release of AKVIS Sketch plug-in v.3.0 for Windows and Macintosh. By popular request, the possibility to save user presets for subsequent use has been added. Besides, new to version 3.0: compatibility with Windows Vista, new installation method on Macintosh, bugs fixed. Upgrade for registered users is free. Many photo editing enthusiasts have already appreciated Sketch's features. You can see a gallery of examples. AKVIS Sketch also enjoys attention of professional designers. The program was awarded "Best Image Editing Software 2006" by "DT&G Magazine".

Demonstrations of the plugin's features are available at the AKVIS site, along with a free 10 day trial. AKVIS Sketch plugin is compatible with Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, Corel Painter, Corel Photo-Paint, and Paint Shop Pro, ACD FotoCanvas, and Ulead PhotoImpact. AKVIS Sketch runs on Microsoft Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista and on Macintosh Mac OS X 10.4, PowerPC G3 and above.

Page Curl Pro & Puzzle Pro From AV Bros. - Review

Read a review of Page Curl Pro and Puzzle Pro. You'll also find a special 10% discount for these products, and an interview with Page Curl Pro co-creator Alex of AV Bros.

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Introduction to Photoshop Plugins - Plugin Essentials
Harald Heim of the Plugin Site (listed below) has written a great Photoshop plugins introduction here with all you need to know to understand plugins and start using Photoshop plugins right away. He addresses issues such as incompatibilities, explains the differences between free and commercial plugins, and offers advice on installing your plugins, on organizing your plugins on the hard drive, and on accessing and managing your plugins.


The Plugin Site - Plugins Collection
You'll find a vast collection of plugins here.
 PhotoFreebies is a collection of free Photoshop plugins for performing useful photo manipulations and effects - including sepia effects, saturation gradients, b/w conversion, color space transformations and many more.
 Harry's Filters is a set of over 50 Photoshop-compatible and Adobe Premiere plugins with various effects.


PluginsWorld - Photoshop Plug-ins Directory
This site was created to group all Adobe plugins. Plugins can be displayed by list, categories or by editor. There's a search engine, and the ability to add comments about each plugin listed on the site. This is a great, wonderful resource!


Free Photoshop - Adobe Photoshop plug-ins
As you browse the site, you will discover over 200 pages with over 300 freeware and commercial reviews, each rated for usefulness and functionality. Over 90 companies and authors are featured. There are plenty of free Photoshop plugins, filters, styles, shapes, gradients, brushes, textures and patterns to download. Also offers a good tutorial page.


Grafnet - Plugin Site
This is a really good resource for seeing the actual effects of a variety of plugins. Currently there are 3,180 descriptions of Photoshop filters. The site is growing and worth keeping an eye on.


Power Retouche Photoshop Plugins
Power Retouche photoshop plugins for professional photo retouching and photo editing offers 20 quality photo editing and retouching tools. Sharpen without creating halos. Correct lens distortions from pincusion, panorama and barreling. Anti-aliasing filter. Exposure correction up to at least four stops. Photographic saturation. Radial exposure and brightness correction.



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