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Plugin Newsletter - August 2008
EDITORIAL
PLUGINS ESSENTIALS: How to use all filter plugins as smart filters in Photoshop CS3
NEW POLL: How many photos do you usually take during a holiday trip? THE DISCUSSION FORUMS: FocalBlade for Aperture?, Buzz Pro 3, Trapcod Import, IrfanView Enlargements
GRAPHICS NEWS: Lightroom 2 & Camera RAW 4.5, Portrait Professional 8, SiteGrinder 2, Silver Efex Pro, Wow Photoshop book
ABOUT THE PLUGIN SITE
We have finally released a new plugin in the PhotoWiz series. It is called ContrastMaster and lets you adjust the contrast of images in sophisticated new ways. It also offers some new features that will also be added to the other PhotoWiz plugins in future. For example there is a new Preview tab control that lets you conveniently adjust and compare three different effect settings without leaving the plugin dialog. ContrastMaster also fully supports XP/Vista visual styles and a new tool bar that makes key shortcuts obsolete. ContrastMaster also supports multiple processors, pipelines and cores for major parts of its code. For more information about ContrastMaster see below. There are some discussions about Lightroom plugin support going on on the Adobe Blog pages. Unfortunately it all sounds like poor excuses for not having added plugin support in Lightroom 2. And then it is mentioned that plugin support is not the highest priority for the Lightroom team. You have to love these people for the passion with which they defend their product, but you could get the impression that a few PR lessons would do no harm. But better read yourself at http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/08/the_lightroom_v.html
www.thepluginsite.com
CONTRASTMASTER FOR WINDOWS
RELEASED: Sophisticated Contrast Adjustments There is no other tool available that offers as many methods for contrast adjustment as ContrastMaster. ContrastMaster is not only more effective at squeezing image details and contrast out of photos than most other tools, it also offers more options for fine-tuning and controlling image contrast. With its masking options you often do not need to create selections or layer masks for selectively applying the ContrastMaster effect, which saves you a lot of time. For downloading a demo version,
more information, screenshots and examples please visit
PLUGINS ESSENTIALS: How to
use all filter plugins as smart filters in Photoshop CS3 To find out more please read
the updated "Plugins Essentials" article at:
1. Photo Enhancement 57% So most people seem to use plugins for photo enhancement. If we combine the graphics design, special effects, artwork and scrapbooking categories into one category, e.g. called graphics effects, we get a 38% value. So a bit less than 2/3 of all plugin users mainly enhance their photos with them and more than 1/3 uses them for achieving certain effects. For more poll results, please
visit the Know-How section at
NEW POLL: How many photos
do you usually take during a holiday trip? Please vote at the bottom
of the page at
THE DISCUSSION FORUMS: FocalBlade
for Aperture?, Buzz Pro 3, Trapcod Import, IrfanView Enlargements Guntis wrote: "Do you
plan to make FocalBlade plugin for Apple Aperture 2? I'd be interested
in it." BUCKSHEL wrote: "Been
trying to find a way to purchase Buzz Pro 3; to no avail. Just can't seem
to get it! I have an earlier version which I covet, and would like to
update. Many thanks." austin1979 wrote: "hi
all really tough question here about the effect-plug in i want to use
for the shine effect. i have been thinking about purchasing trapcods shine
effect with my movie logo i have already created.but i also want to use
the xara extreme 4.0 software as well!so really my question is can you
import graphic`s form a diffrent software into trapcod or does it have
to be a specific software?..." allstar wrote: "I have
a bunch of files that ar 600x400 and close to , dpi shows 100 on most
, what do i have to do to resize/resample these for 8x10 quality prints
from irfanview??? or if there is a better way? thanks from a newbie." For more interesting discussion
please visit our forums at
FREE PLUGINS AND TOOLS: ChromAcute,
LRViewer, Photo! Editor, Stepok's Raw Importer, Zoner Photo Studio 8 ChromAcute (Beta) is a free plugin (for Windows) for removing chromatic aberrations and color fringing from digital photos. It features a one-click correction of color fringing and batch processing. 16bit image support and a Mac version are planned.
http://imageingester.com/LRViewer-info.php
http://www.stepok.net/eng/raw_importer.htm
To view the features visit For downloading please go
to
Version 2 of Photoshop Lightroom (for Win/Mac) now offers dual-monitor support, non-destructive localized image correction via brushing and gradients, camera profiles, enhanced search functionality and much more. It is Adobe’s first 64-bit application for both MacOS X and Windows Vista. The Camera Raw plugin and DNG Converter 4.5 are also now available and support over 190 cameras including Olympus E 420 and E 520. http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/
http://www.niksoftware.com/silverefexpro/
http://www.peachpit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321509862
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