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EXTERNAL FRIENDS
Plugin filters are on everybody´s minds these days, and I can understand why. They are fun to play with
and many of them are also really useful. I have collected some for you, at this moment there are
1,542 free filters to preview and download, with more to come.
For installation instructions, or if you´re having problems with getting them to work, go to the Filters Installation page.
Most filters have a more artistic area of use, rather than for common web graphics, but can be
used for making textures for background, button surfaces etc. Anyway, they are very fun to play around with
and sometimes you get surprised. Most of the filters have a wide range of adjustments, so the previews
are only examples of what can be done.
If you download some filters, please show the authors your appreciation by sending an email and visit their homepages.
They have given these filters to us for free, so give them your feedback. You may use these filters for your own personal use.
Do not distribute or use them commercially whitout the authors permission.
Other graphic tools are utilities that makes your life as a designer of graphics and homepages easier.
Included is also the excellent PlugIn Commander, PiCo by Harry the Raver
which I recommend you to download and learn. Some of the filters
available for downloading (at this moment Andrew´s Filter Collection) are compiled using the Plugin Commander, so you need this program
to decompile them into 8BF files. Due to the enourmous saving of space and downloading time, more filters will probably be compiled to these small FFL files in the future.
There are also many other features in PiCo, such as previews, filter editing etc.
Please, scroll down the page or click below.
FREE FILTERS
FREE FILTERS
These 11 filters made by Alfredo Mateus are excellent for
creating artistic effects.
Seven filters for making borders, also made by Alfredo Mateus. Some of them
in cooperation with other authors.
If you want to make a part of an image greyscale, this filter by Alfredo Mateus
is the perfect tool.
Andrew´s Filter Collections 1 - 35
Andrew Buckle is well known for his great filters. Many of these filters are very useful for creating interesting color effects. The links below
will take you to the preview and download pages on Steve Fisher´s site,
PC Resources for Photoshop. The filters are compiled to FFL files, so you need the PlugIn Commander to decompile them.
Visit Andrew Buckle´s homepage.
The famous danish artist, Balder Olrik, have made several filters to be used in his work
with Photoshop. The seven filters in this set may be of great interest for those of you who
work with photography. Balder wrote them to fill up a need where Photoshop had it´s limitations. The functions
are explained in the preview gallery. You should really visit Balder Olrik´s Incident
to see some of his great work.
Roberto Puon has made two filters for creating square and round buttons.
Visit Roberto Puon´s homepage.
Great filters all of them, including two for making beveled buttons.
Excellent filters here too. Three sets made by Dennis Crombie. Two of the filters, Pattern Edit Do
and Undo, are used in the seamless tiles tutorial.
Filter Factory Galleries A - U
These are the famous filters made by various authors. The preview galleries and downloads are
not located on my own server, but are links to pages on Steve Fisher´s site,
PC Resources for Photoshop. The filters can be downloaded from the preview pages. The filters are compiled to FFL files,
so you need the PlugIn Commander to decompile them.
Steve have done an excellent job with his pages, so you should really go there and
look around. It was originally created for Photoshop users, but there are a lot of goodies for PSP:ers too.
If you haven´t seen these forty filters before, you must take a look immediately. Kipp McMichael
really did a great job when making these "Lens" effects. Included in these sets are also the Psychosis,
Pixelate and Distort filters.
Greg´s Factory Output Vol. 1 and 2
Greg Schorno is the man behind these two sets. Pool Shadow and
Spotlight are two very useful filters. Visit Greg´s homepage.
Harry´s VideoRave, Power Grads and Nirvana
Harry the Raver has made some great filters.
He is also the creator of the PlugIn Commander, which is an excellent tool for
managing, viewing and editing filters plus a lot more. Scroll down to the Graphics Tools to get more information and to download this
program. You should also visit his site, Premiere Plugin HQ.
Twenty filters by Icabod. There will be more from this guy soon.
The file is packed in RAR format, so you need WinRar to decompress them.
Visit Icabods Budoir.
Michael Johannhanwahr, the man who made the Plug-in Manager,
has also made a set of five filters. Visit Johann´s Software & Graphics page.
Three sets of filters by Kangaroo with great artistic effects.
I really love these crazy filters. See for yourself, I bet you´ll like them too. These files are packed in RAR format, so you need
WinRar to decompress them. Visit Kangaroo´s homepage.
Thomas Kiewski is the author of these ten "Oilfilters" with which you can create some
nice effects. I really like these great filters. Visit Kiwi´s homepage
Two sets by Krusty. FX vol. 2 contains 22 generators
for creating various patterns from scratch, and FX vol. 3 have some tools for manipulating existing images.
Visit Krusty´s homepage
Four nice filters by Steve Mockensturm. One of them, the LaserSight,
doesn´t work in PSP. Visit Mock´s homepage.
This is the newest version by Werner Streidt.
Great filters which include some pattern generators. One filter, Digital Weaver, makes an effect
similar to Eyecandy´s Weave. Visit Werner´s homepage
Very good for making buttons. New Virtual Research made them
for you to use them. Visit NVR´s homepage
There are 21 excellent filters in here. The Copper Tooling Simulator and the lens effects are useful (at least for me).
Three filters by Sandy Blair. False Colour 3 is a great filter that I use
in the Hot Lava and Flame tutorials. These filters was originally created to
be used in combination. An example of that is shown in the Gallery. Visit Sandy´s homepage
A new collection of excellent filters, including the old ones, by Ilya Razmanov, alias Ilyich the Toad.
These filters are really cool. Metalwork is used in some of my texture tutorials, but most of them are very useful. Included are two
filters for making bevels. Updated 97-12-21 with Plain Mosaic Blur, Plain Mosaic and
a new version of Picasso´s Last Word.
Three sets of filters by Martijn W. van der Lee, packed in
self extracting RAR archives. Many of these great filters are useful when working with colors. I also enjoyed playing with the Radar and
Spotlight filters in the Tools set, but they are all very good. Martijn will update his filters frequently,
so come back here often to get the newest, or go directly to his homepage.
Preview
and download
GRAPHIC TOOLS
WebVise Totality by Auto F/X is six products in one. I have found it to be an excellent tool when optimizing images
for the web. It can be used as a stand alone application or as a plug-in which supports Paint Shop Pro amongst
many others. A demo can be downloaded from Auto F/X´s site where all its features also are
described. WebVise Totality contains the following:
- GIF Compression Engine
Learn how to use the Javascript onmouse effect with the excellent tutorial,
Magic Buttons
by Professional Web Design. You can also download
the tutorial and use it offline. They also have table, frames and form tutorials.
A really useful tool if you have many plugin filters made with Filter Factory, which most of the free
filters are. With this great FREEWARE, you have control over your filters, no matter how many they are.
The Plug-in Manager is made by Michael Johannhanwahr and can
be downloaded from his site Johann´s Software & Graphics Pages.
While you´re there, take your time and surf around through his pages. He also have some really special backgrounds to download.
PictureDicer by ShoeString is a great freeware tool that chops any image file into several smaller images, suitable for creating mouseover effects
and pseudo-imagemaps on Web pages. It also generates the HTML for a table to contain the partial images and display them
so they appear as the original uncut image. Download your copy from ShoeString´s page.
With this excellent software by Harry the Raver, you can manage, view and edit FF filters.
Also compile the 8BF files into FLL format (or the other way around), which
will save a lot of space on the harddrive, plus many more features. Read more about PiCo and download a copy from
his page, Premiere Plugin HQ.
One of the best shareware color picker. Open an image on the screen and move a cross hair over it.
Shows every pixel´s color in HEX value. Pick up the color you want and paste it into your HTML document. Made by Maximized Software, inc.
Try it!
I have tried several Gif animation programs and find it difficult to say which one is the best.
In my opinion, this one is as good as any other. What really makes it great is that it´s free!
Go to Microsoft GIF Animator page and
download a copy.
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