Plugin Commander (better known as PiCo) is a tool designed to organize your Photoshop-compatible plugins, Adobe Premiere and After Effects plugins, your Paint Shop Pro materials and many other plugin and file types. It also allows you to create your own Filter Factory plugins, convert between different plugin formats, batch process image files, manage files, to view and edit images and much more.

PiCo can be used as a complementary tool with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects, Jasc Paintshop Pro, Corel Photo-Paint and many other applications that support plugins. However you can also use PiCo without them.

This is the Plugin Commander 1.5x Pro Edition feature list:

Organize your Plugins and other Add-ons

• Enable or disable plugins and add-ons to make only those you really need show up in your application
• Support for over 30 different plugin and file types plus the ability to define new plugin types
• Change the category of Photoshop-compatible, Premiere and After Effects plugins to make them display in the sub-menu you want
• Simulation of Photoshop's Filter menu

Preview Plugins and Images

• Instant preview calculation of Photoshop-compatible plugins and display of various Paint Shop Pro materials
• View different image files e.g. JPG, GIF, BMP, WMF, PNG, PCX
• Different preview possibilities: adjustable preview window, thumbnail browser, picture editor, Filter Factory editor
• Apply Photoshop-compatible plugins directly to images within Plugin Commander to create image effects

Edit your Images in the Picture Editor

• Open and save different image formats
• Acquire images from TWAIN-compatible scanners
• Apply over 15 standard filters
• Apply Photoshop-compatible plugins
• Convert to various color modes (2, 16, 256 & 16 million colors, greyscaled, dithered)
• Print your images

Batch Process Images

• Convert between different image formats
• Create thumbnails of images and Filter Factory plugins
• Apply over 20 special filters during the conversion process
• Apply Filter Factory plugins during the conversion process
• Batch resize your images
• Instant JPG-Quality and Effect Preview

Convert between different Filter Factory Plugin Formats

• Photoshop to Premiere and vice versa
• Macintosh to Windows and vice versa
• Old to new Filter Factory plugin versions and vice versa
• Create Filter Factory plugins with larger previews that work in different color modes, demo plugins and editor plugins
• Decompile Filter Factory plugins to source code files

Archive your Filter Factory Plugins

• Store your Filter Factory plugins inside FFL files with a compression ratio of up to 200:1
• Search function for finding certain filters within FFL files
• Convert FFL files back to plugins

Create your own Plugins with the Filter Factory Editor

• Extended editing capabilities in comparison with the original Filter Factory plugin
• Many additional features like source code printing, memory spots, randomize function, code snippet database, ff expression database
• Several cool graphic interfaces to inspire your creativity

File Management

• Two pane main window to manage folders and files quickly and easily
• Quickly select the recently accessed folders
• 9 different file view mode
• File Operations: copy, move, rename, delete, kill
• Folder Operations: move, rename, kill, create
• Start external applications by double clicking files
• Zip and unzip files

Flexibility & Speed

• Multithreading for doing different tasks at the same time
• Accelerated plugin recognition by caching
• Fast preview of Photoshop-compatible plugins through caching
• Menu lists for quickly swapping folders, preview images and for starting external applications

 

Limitations of the free Plugin Commander 1.x Light Edition

• The Light Edition is not optimized for speed
• No cooperative multithreading
• No caching of plugins and preview images

• Applying Photoshop-compatible plugins isn't possible
• Changing the category of non-FF plugins doesn't work
• No Enabling and Disabling of plugins in Plugin View (with the exception of FF plugins)
• No simulation of Photoshop's Filter menu

• No Conversion of Filter Factory plugins to Adobe Premiere and Macintosh
• No Browser dialog
• No Preview window for previewing Photoshop-compatible plugins and images on the main window
• Only BMP and JPG files are supported
• No Batch Processing dialog
• Limited features in the Picture Editor
• No Thumbnails command for creating thumbnails of Filter Factory plugins

• No FFL View
• No Create FFL and Add FFL commands
• No enhanced Filter Factory dialog
• No Unzip and Zip commands

Minimum Requirements

• Hardware:
• Pentium processor
• 640x480 pixel, 16bit screen display
• 24 MB RAM
• Software:
• Win95 / 98 / NT
• Recommended, but not necessary: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Paintshop Pro, Corel Photo-Paint, Painter, Picture Publisher or any other application that supports some kind of plugins

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