Press Release: WILMINGTON, NC -
Adding to its line of filter plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop®, Corel PhotoPaint®, Human Software is introducing PhotoSurface version 3.0.

Press Release: Toronto, ON, July 25, 2005 - Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia FreeHand as well as MAPdataUSA and MAPdataWorld royalty-free data sets, announces Geographic Imager, a new plug-in suite for Adobe Photoshop that adds geospatial functionality to this powerful image editing program.

Press Release: ConvertToBW Pro is a Photoshop plugin for highly customized color to B&W conversions mimicking conventional photography techniques. This popular plugin has now been updated to version 3.0 for Windows XP.

DCP Systems Limited has announced Fluid Mask, a Photoshop plug-in is designed to take the tedium out of creating cut outs.

Press Release: Burnsville, MN, USA, June 27, 2005 - PictoColor Corporation has released iCorrect Portrait, the newest in its line of digital photo software products. Based on PictoColor’s point-and-click color correction technology, iCorrect Portrait offers professional portrait, wedding, school, sport, and event photographers a fast and easy way to color correct their digital photos.

Press Release: June 23, 2005 - The Plugin Site (http://www.thepluginsite.com) released Version 1.04 of FocalBlade, a Photoshop-compatible plugin for sharpening your photos for screen display and printing as well as for producing great looking blur, soft focus and glow effects on 8bit and 16bit images.

Press Release: RALEIGH, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 15, 2005–Alien Skin Software today announced Eye Candy® 5: Impact (Impact). A set of 10 plug-in filters for Adobe® Photoshop® and other compatible host programs, Impact creates chrome, bevels, glass buttons, perspective shadows, and more.

Extensis has updates available that address issues with Photoshop CS2 and for Mac users, Tiger (10.4.x).

Press Release: San Diego, CA – June 13, 2005 – nik multimedia, Inc. today announces nik Sharpener Pro™ 2.0 is now available through the nik multimedia retail Web site and specialty camera stores.

Source: Photographic Magazine
Written By Ron Eggers

Eastman Kodak’s Austin Development Center (KADC), formally known as Applied Science Fiction, is offering free updates to photographers who already have purchased one or more of its Photoshop Compatible plug-ins.

Source: DPReview

ABSoft has announced upgrades to its noise reduction software program Neat Image for both Windows and Mac.

PixelGenius, the makers of the PhotoKit™ series of Adobe® Photoshop® productivity and workflow plug-ins, announces free updates to PhotoKit, PhotoKit Color and PhotoKit Sharpener for full Adobe Photoshop CS2 compatibility.

Source: MacWorld
Written By Peter Cohen

Pangea Software has released PanoPreviewer, a free Photoshop plug-in designed for photographers who work with 360-degree Virtual Reality (VR) panoramas. The software lets you preview “equirectangular” panorama images in Photoshop directly, rather than having to use an intermediary application, and it uses OpenGL for maximum performance.

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Source: MacWorld
By Jay J. Nelson

Photoshop filters, which are available from the program’s Filter menu, and Photoshop Actions, which are a series of automated software maneuvers available from the Actions palette, can be powerful tools for making complex changes to an image. Akvis Chameleon 2.1 simplifies the process of placing objects from various images onto a single background. Mister Retro’s Machine Wash Image Filters (actually Photoshop Actions that behave like filters) can make your image or logo look as if it were printed on a variety of different surfaces, and it can also add just the right touch of decrepit aging.

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Press Release: Chicago, IL – April, 7th, 2005 - PixelGenius, the makers of the PhotoKit™ series of Adobe® Photoshop® productivity and workflow plug-ins, announces that by the time Photoshop CS2 ships, they will offer free updates to PhotoKit, PhotoKit Color and PhotoKit Sharpener.

Press Release: SEATTLE — Celartem Technology Inc. today officially announced a merger of its three US companies; Extensis, Inc.; LizardTech, Inc. and Celartem, Inc.

Source: The Luminous Landscape

Three Must-Have Photoshop Plug-ins
By Michael Reichmann

One of the questions that I’m asked most often, both at my seminars, and by e-mail, is – what software tools do I use; particularly for noise reduction and sharpening. And, how do I do my B&W conversions.

Press Release: February 7, 2005 — PictureCode today officially released a Photoshop plug-in version of its top-rated Noise Ninja software, which removes high-ISO noise and grain from digital images.

IconLab

IconLab IconLab is a File Format plug-in for Adobe Photoshop, that allows you to work directly on Mac OS X’s native icon format from within Adobe Photoshop or compatible software.

Media Lab Inc. releases SiteGrinder, a new Adobe Photoshop plug-in that enables users to name the layers in a Photoshop design and convert it into a Web site with one click.

PixelGenius’s product PhotoKit Sharpener was rated “Highly Recommended” in the What Digital Camera Magazine 2004 awards for software in the January 2005 issue. Tied with IView Multimedia Pro, it was bested in the software catagory only by Photoshop CS which was named winner.

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