Adobe Photoshop and Elements plugins
In general, each plugin can be used with all versions of Photoshop (3.0-7.0, CS, CS2),
under Mac OS X, 9 and earlier, and Windows.
Should also work with other compatible programs such as Elements, AfterEffects, Premiere, PhotoDeluxe,
Corel PhotoPaint, Paint Shop Pro, Fireworks, Painter, Photo Impact etc.
(incomplete list).
For information about using these and other Photoshop plugins with the GIMP (on Linux), see this page and issue 6 of fullcircle magazine.
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An easy way to create your web site's
favourites/shortcut/bookmark icon in Photoshop (all versions including CS and CS2), Elements
or Paint Shop Pro (v9 recommended). More info. FREE, $5 donation suggested if you love the plugin. (MacHouse has a video tutorial on making a favicon.)
Download these versions (Win/Mac) if you need to work with PNG (Vista) ICO files. (The Mac CS2/CS3 versions at right include this format.)
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Free download:
Mac
Mac CS2 only
Mac CS3 only (PPC+Intel)
68K Mac
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Free download:
Windows
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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Combines multiple ICO images (e.g. created by the above plugin)
into a single ICO file. More info Also of interest, to Linux/UNIX/OS X users, may be the
icoutils package (extract, convert icons etc). |
Free download:
MacOS 7/8/9/X
68K Mac |
Free download:
Windows CLI |
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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A compatible and improved replacement for Adobe Filter Factory. Now fully scriptable!
FREE, $5 donation suggested More info.
Also see Filter Forge: seamless textures, visual effects, distortions, patterns, frames and more. Key features of Filter Forge are a visual filter editor and a free online filter library. |
Free download:
Mac
CS2/Mac only
CS3/Mac (PPC+Intel)
68K Mac
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Free download:
Windows
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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This plugin lets you grab image layers from any PSD/PSB file. It's faster than opening the whole PSD in Photoshop, if
you just want a layer. Most importantly, it can usually recover image layers from corrupted PSD files
that Photoshop won't open (if Photoshop opens with damage, this plugin recovers a more intact image). Beta version.
FREE, $10 donation suggested if it saves your day/sanity/job. |
Free download:
Mac 3.0-7.0, CS
CS2/Mac only
CS3/Mac (PPC+Intel)
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Free download:
Windows
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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Image format plugin - also reads .EIZ ElectricImage Z-buffer depth files.
For all versions of Photoshop including CS and CS2.
Improve throughput of your .img files for use in Electric Image Animation System in excess of 100X!
If you work in EIAS Animator you cannot do without this one.
A typical benchmark saving 57MB file:
Adobe plugin: 10 mins 53 secs
This plugin: 6 seconds!
FREE, $5 donation suggested. More info |
Free download:
Mac
CS2/Mac
CS3/Mac (PPC+Intel)
68K Mac
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Free download:
Windows
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Imports IMG files larger than 2GB.
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Free download:
MacOS X (PowerPC)
New beta: MacOS X Universal (PPC/Intel)
MacOS 7/8/9/Classic
68K Mac
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Free download:
Windows
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Source (not GPL): Svn/Browse
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Open and Save PSP 5-9 format files (including .pspimage, etc.) from Photoshop.
(Has also proved useful in recovering image data from otherwise unopenable PSP files.)
FREE, $5 donation suggested More info |
Free download:
Mac
CS3/Mac only
68K Mac
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Free download:
Windows
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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Open and Save TIFF files using the versatile libtiff library.
This supports a wider variety of TIFF flavours and compression
types than the built-in Photoshop TIFF format. Also adds
the ability to save in a wider range of compression types,
including G3 and G4 fax.
More info
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Free download:
CS2/Mac only
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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Wrap an image (for example, a label) around a cylinder or bottle.
More info
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Creates high resolution stochastically screened (screenless, also known as FM screened)
bitmaps from halftone images.
"The holy grail ... has always been to trick the imagesetter into continuous tone behavior.
If there's a better way than RASTUS, I have yet to see it." (Peter Ellzey, Copygraphics)
Price reduced to $49. More info
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Download demo:
MacOS 7/8/9/X |
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Windows |
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Filter implementing
Conway's Game of Life cellular automaton.
More info |
Free download:
MacOS 7/8/9/X |
Free download:
Windows |
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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Counts distinct RGB colours in an image or selection.
Also counts distinct values in single channels.
Now works with both 8 and 16 bit images.
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Free download:
MacOS 7/8/9/X
68K Mac |
Free download:
Windows |
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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Export image histogram counts as a text file.
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Free download:
MacOS 7/8/9/X
CS3/Mac only
68K Mac |
Free download:
Windows |
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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12bits Filter
Reduces colour depth of each channel of an image to 4 bits/16 values (4096 colours).
Useful for cell phones and mobile devices.
More info |
Free download:
MacOS 7/8/9/X
68K Mac |
Free download:
Windows |
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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Reduces colour depth of channels to 5 bits red, 6 bits green, 5 bits blue (total 16 bits or 65536 colours).
Applies error diffusion dither. Useful for cell phones and mobile devices. Also includes 5/5/5 variation (32768 colours).
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Free download:
MacOS 7/8/9/X
Mac CS3 only
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Free download:
Windows |
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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Reads and writes SGI (Irix) RGB image files, 8 or 16 bits/channel, in RLE or uncompressed formats.
While Photoshop "Goodies" include this format,
this plugin has fewer bugs, is faster, and works with all versions of Photoshop, on all platforms.
More info |
Free download:
MacOS 7/8/9/X
CS2/Mac only
CS3/Mac only (PPC+Intel)
68K Mac
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Free download:
Windows |
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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Before Photoshop, there was MacPaint. This plugin is a small homage to the magic. Vive FatBits!
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Free download:
MacOS 7/8/9/X |
Free download:
Windows |
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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Type 0 uncompressed Wireless Bitmap format plugin. While Photoshop 7 includes this format,
this plugin works with all versions of Photoshop, on all platforms.
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Free download:
MacOS 7/8/9/X
68K Mac
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Free download:
Windows |
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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Reads (bitmap) images in 8XI format, as used by TI-83 Plus devices. Basic support for saving
exists but I do not have documentation on the header fields (please help :)
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Free download:
MacOS 7/8/9/X
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Free download:
Windows |
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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This file format is used by imaging equipment from
Digital Biomedical Imaging Systems AG.
(This plugin was commissioned by DITABIS and is released under the GPL with their permission.)
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Free download:
MacOS 7/8/9/X
Mac CS3 only
68K Mac
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Free download:
Windows |
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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A specialised plugin for exporting images to GBA development tools.
More info |
Download demo:
MacOS 7/8/9/X
68K Mac
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Download demo:
Windows |
Contact author re source/licensing. |
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Reads and writes Netpbm portable image formats;
a.k.a. portable anymap, bit map (bitmap), gray map (graymap), or pixel map (pixmap).
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Free download:
MacOS 7/8/9/X
MacOS X(CS2)
68K Mac
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Free download:
Windows |
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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Break an image into square or rectangular blocks, and rearrange them randomly, like a sliding block puzzle.
(For more sophisticated puzzles, such as jigsaws, see AV Bros. Puzzle Pro.) More info |
Free download:
MacOS 7/8/9/X
CS2/Mac (untested)
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Free download:
Windows |
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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Adobe Illustrator plugins |
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A filter which performs a particular kind of artwork distortion.
More info |
Free download:
Mac Ill 10/CS
Mac Ill 7/8/9
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Free download:
Windows |
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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Wrap artwork (for example, a label) around a cylinder or bottle.
More info
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Computes the length (perimeter) of Illustrator paths. More info |
Free download:
Mac Ill 10/CS
Mac Ill 7/8/9
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Free download:
Windows |
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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Computes the area and length of Illustrator paths. |
Free download:
Mac Ill CS2
Mac Ill 10/CS
Mac Ill 7/8/9
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Free download:
Windows Ill 8-CS2 |
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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Exports a text file (tab delimited) of selected path coordinates.
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Mac Ill
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Windows |
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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An example of a plugin tool which creates
a logarithmic graph of a simple function. More info |
Free download:
MacOS 7/8/9/X
68K Mac
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Free download: Windows |
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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Looking for more?
The Plugin Site offers many free and commercial plugins for producing image and video effects as well as a lot of products reviews, image galleries and tutorials. Additionally there's a popular newsletter, a large discussion board and a graphics search engine.
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A simple but accurate PostScript method for plotting sine waves.
Can be used directly by Illustrator and Photoshop.
More info |
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GPL Source: tar.gz |
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HTML chessboard and GIF chesspieces for the purpose of playing correspondence chess by e-mail.
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gzipped tar archive (60KB). |
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MPW tool for downloading
PostScript to network printers. |
Download MPW tool for
68K Mac |
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A very basic, but fast! TIFF Viewer (Mac only)
for antialiased browsing of multipage 1-bit TIFF files
(e.g. faxes, scanned documents or manuals).
More info |
Free download:
MacOS 7/8/9/X
68K Mac
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(also requires libtiff and zlib to build)
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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An assembler for two interesting architectures, written with the aid of lex and yacc (flex/bison). More info |
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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A simple lex/yacc (Flex/Bison) based
expression parser and evaluator. More info |
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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Standalone code to parse Photoshop PSD format files, describe salient structure as text, and dump layers to PNG files (sample dump). Also may be effective in recovering damaged PSD files. Build under UNIX (Linux, OS X),
MPW or a Windows environment
such as Cygwin or MinGW.
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Free download: Windows |
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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PDP-11 target for the lcc retargetable ANSI C compiler.
May be useful as a straightforward case study, see commentary:
More info |
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Source: Svn/Browse
(machine description is GPL, lcc is not).
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Hardware/software interface Microchip PIC18 microcontrollers to ATA(PI)/IDE devices.
More info |
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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Script and post-commit hook to annotate Bugzilla bugs
with Subversion commit messages. Partly inspired by
Sean Foy's work, but greatly simplified for
situations where Svn and Bz run on the same server. Versions provided for Bugzilla 2.18.x and 2.20.
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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XSLT stylesheet which transforms the output of svn log --xml
(e.g. as produced by a post-commit hook) into RSS 2.0 XML.
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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Jabber bot which takes lines from a FIFO and announces them into group chat. Includes a complementary Subversion post-commit hook which posts one-line commit summaries to a FIFO.
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GPL Source: Svn/Browse
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and welcome discussion of any issue pertaining to the software on this page,
including build issues. Contact us with bug reports, suggestions or other comments
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