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Number of Companies: 212

 

Abalone

• FaceAge: Manipulates the age or weight of persons in digital photos.

ABSoft

• Neat Image: Reduce visible noise and grain in digital photographic images.

Adobe

• Gallery Effects: Enhanced versions of the native Photoshop plugins. Not sold anymore.
• RAW and JPG2000: Import RAW files from various cameras and open and save JP2 files. Not sold anymore. Included in Photoshop CS and later.

AFH Systems

• Filter Meister: Sophisticated tool for creating your own plugins

AGD (Out of Business???)

• Color Temperature Plug-in: Correct color temperature with floating point precision.

Age Technologies

• PlaidMaker: Create any type of yarn dye fabrics like plain, sateen, diamond, twill, basket, herringbone and more
• ColorVision: create new colorways from a scanned fabrics without losing there original textures or shadings
• StyleDraper: Apply new fabric instantly to existing models, then start building a catalogue without actually producing any sample garments
• ColorChart: Match any color in a design and easily duplicate it with a single click
• MotifStudio: Total control on the type of repeat needed to create the final design: free, tossed, border, stripe, engineer and more.

AKVIS

• Retoucher: Eliminates dust, scratches, texts and even small objects with a mouse click
• Chameleon: Automatic adjustment of inserted objects to the target image color range
• Stamp: Allows retouching image imperfections (stains, scratches, dust) using similar parts of the image
• Enhancer: Allows detecting details from underexposed, overexposed and mid tone areas of a photo without manipulating exposure
• Coloriage: Colorization of black and white photos and replacing of colors on a color photo
• Noise Buster: Reduces both luminance and color noise on digital images without spoiling other aspects of the photo
• Sketch: Converts an image into a pencil sketch or a watercolor drawing with a few mouse clicks
• Decorator: Change the surface of an object in a verisimilar way
• LightShop: Light effects
• Art Suite: Collection of versatile effects for decoration of photos Magnifier: Tool for increasing image resolution
• ArtWork: Imitates different painting techniques: oil painting and comics.

ALAP (Acquired by Quark)

• PlateMaker: Exports DCS 2.0 files. Adds extra plates for varnishes, foil stamps, metallic inks, and spot colors to separations. Not sold anymore???

Alien Skin

• Blow Up: Offers high quality image resizing
• Bokeh: From changing the depth of field to placing a radial sweet spot and adding a vignette.
• Exposure: Recreate the look of traditional B/W and color films
• Eye Candy: Create chrome, brushed metal, glass, bevels, shadows, reflections and more.
• SnapArt: Creates natural media artwork in a single step
• Xenofex (discontinued): Realistic natural phenomena and sophisticated distortions
• Splat! (discontinued): combines frames, textures, edges, borders, mosaics and more
• Image Doctor (discontinued): removes blemishes and defects, quickly repairs over-compressed JPEGs, and seamlessly replaces unwanted details and objects

Algovision

• LuraWave: reads and writes LuraWave compressed images. Not sold anymore????

AliveColors (Out of Business???)

• AliveColors: corrects up to eight colors simultanuesly

Allegorithmic

• imageSynth: Create seamless textures from any source photograph

Alpha Plugins

• Digitalizer: Lets you create an illustration consisting of symbols or that of a digital matrix whose components form an initial picture
• Engraver: Produce pictures that resembles an old engravings
• Fire: Depicts various flames and fires
• Lens Pro: Create many beautiful lenses and glass objects Alpha Strip: Make cutting edge alpha-channel images
• IcePattern: Create a variety of frosty ice patterns
• RedEyes: Removes the red eye effect often caused by a flash camera

Altia

• PhotoProto: automatically turns Photoshop artwork into a working, interactive prototype that can be packaged, emailed and executed

Andromeda

• Photography: includes cMulti, Mezzo Line-Screen, B & W mezzo line-art, Diffract, Prism and Rainbow, Halo, Reflection, Star and Velocity filters
• Three-D: for 3D visualization, 3D scene creation, Surface wrapping and Package Design
  
• Three-D Luxe: Enhanced Version
• Screens: Converts gray-scale into a wide variety of different line art screens featuring mezzotints, sharp contrast mezzograms, mezzoblends, ellipses, lines, circles, spokes, waves or any blended combination.
• Techtures: 500 hand rendered realistic textures to explore texturing effects
• Shadow: Perspective shadows with a Virtual Camera, Stereo 3D viewing, Multiple shadowing with four movable lights
  
• Velociraptor: Velocity trails ahead may arc, bounce, cascade, converge, curve, decline, diminish, jolt, jitter, loop, spiral, spring, streak, trail or wave.
• VariFocus: Lets you focus/defocus features in your image with custom control.
• Measurement: For Medical-Scientific Graphic Arts Images
• Cutline: Stamp directional screens
• LensDoc: Corrects the barreling and pin-cushioning image distortions produced by many zoom and wide angle lenses.
• Perspective: 360 degree rotation of images in any direction.
  
• EtchTone
• ScatterLight Lenses: digital lenses for scattering highlights
  
• RedEye Pro: RedEye removal

AmphiSoft

• AmphiSoft Filters: Image correction and special effects
• Photosharpen: Sharpens photos by removing their edge anti-aliasing
• Photo Detailer: Recover detail from unevenly lit or poorly exposed photos

Antelligent MicroSystems

• Color Darkroom: allows you to edit and fine tune your printer's color profiles

Ardfry Imaging

• PNGOUT: Creates optimized PNG images that are usually smaller than those created with Save for Web and ImageReady

Artlandia

• SymmetryShop: create repeat patterns rom scanned hand-painted motifs and high-resolution photographs

Asiva (Out of Business ???)

• Sharpen+Soft: gives the user the control over sharpening or softening image areas.
• Correct+Apply Color: change the color in your images.
• Shift+Gain: make nearly seamless selections then facilitates extremely accurate adjustments to the Hue, Saturation, Value and Red, Green, Blue Components of the image in one Filter pass
• Grain: allows you add grain to images on one or more color channels seperately.
• JPEG Deblocker: prepares a JPEG file for subsequent image enhancement by smoothing out the blocks in low saturation high luminance areas while preserving detail in the rest of the image.
• Selection: utilizes the Asiva technology and mapping techniques to create selections in Photoshop 8 or 16-bit files
  

Astroshed.com

• FITSPlug: A file format plugin that offers support for FITS, a format for astronomical images.
  

Athentech

• Perfectly Clear: Instantly gives you one click correction to perfection.

Aureleon

• PhotoPro Tools : For coping with image distortions and digital photo artefacts. Not sold anymore???
  
• CoCo : Selective color correction without masking in RGB, Lab, CMYK and MultiChannels
• CoCo Multi Channel: Tool for t-shirt printing and creating spot color separations, bump plates and masks

Auto FX

• Photo/Graphic Edges: adds torn, ripped, deckled, feathered, painted, film frames and darkroom styled edges to any grayscale or color image.
  
• DreamSuite Series One: 18 visual design solutions for type, graphics and photographs
• DreamSuite Series Two: 12 new plugins
• DreamSuite Gel Series: add reflective and refractive depth effects. Includes advanced brush based tools to let you paint on depth and translucent reflections, colors and textures.
• AutoEye 2.0: rebuild lost detail and color in images
• Mystical Lighting: 16 lighting and shading effects
• Mystical Tint, Tone and Color (MTTC): 38 color effects

Axion (Out of Business)

• Flare Effects: create a wide varitity of Lens Flares, Sparkles and other wild effects. Not sold anymore
• Glow and Sparkle: allows you to create a wide varitity of Glows, Sparkles and other effects. Not sold anymore

AV Bros

• PageCurl: realistic and high quality turning page effect
• Puzzle Pro: lets you produce realistic and high quality jig-saw puzzle effect
  

BenVista

• PhotoZoom: Render sharp and crisp clear image magnification without the jagged edges, loss of detail or lack of photorealism

BetterJPEG

• Better JPEG Lossless Resave: Avoid recompression loss when editing and resaving JPEG images in Photoshop.

Bitmix (Out of Business???)

• biTmiX: or creating impressive signs, reflections and other decorations and for plastic textures, foundations and backgrounds production

Box Top Software (Out of Business)

• ProJPEG: JPEG tool for Web graphics professionals
• PhotoGIF: tool for Web graphics production
• ImageVice: color reduction
• ColorSafe: provides fully interactive color pickers for the easy creation of almost limitless hybrid colors from the base colors in the Web safe palette. 

Camera Bits

• Quantum Mechanics: Removes color noise and color artifacts while preserving maximum image detail. Not sold anymore???
• Band Aide: Removes luminance noise from high ISO and underexposed digital photos. Not sold anymore???

CGSD

• Real Texture Tools: Dehaze Filter, Color Correction for Correcting Image Luminance and Chromaticity, AutoTile automatically creates seamlessly tileable texture patterns, Perspective corrects perspective distortions, Synthesis creates a wide assortment of synthetic textures using fractal geometry.
  

Chroma Graphics (Out of business)

• Chromatica, Edge Wizard, Magic Mask
  

Chroma Software (Out of business)

• Shadow Control : Boost details in otherwise lost, dark areas of deep shadow of the image while preserving details in highlights
• Highlight Control: Extracts details from the highlights
• Photographic Filters: Variety of Cokin graduated and solid filters
• Smart Sharpen: Sharpening tool that works on the edges, while leaving the featureless areas intact.
• IR Film: Emulates the look of infra red film, or a photo taken with a digital camera and infra red filter
• WhiteBalance: Changes the white balance of JPEG photosds
  

CodeFritters

• MRWFormat: Open Minolta raw files
  

ColorUtilities (Out of Business???)

• JPEG 2000 Adobe Photoshop Plug-In: Load and save (8 bit and 16 bit signed/unsigned) JPEG2000 compliant files

Colorfield Digital Media (Out of Business???)

• Insight: allows designers to predict image legibility for color deficient viewers by accurately simulating color blindness.
  

Color Science

• i2e Photoshop plug-in: Allows Photoshop users to use the Colour-Science i2e image enhancement technology

Colorvision

• DoctorPRO: Editing of output profiles using virtually all of the Photoshopglobal editing tools.
• ProfilerPro : Uses popular patch readers to create and edit CMYK and RGB profiles for color printers, PostScript printers and RIPs.
• PrintFIX: maintain consistency from your monitor to any number of RGB printers
  

ConGo

• ConGo Plugins Import/Export/Filter Plugins: Allow you to open old C64 images in your image application. The C64 was the world's favorite home computer in the mid 80s and had a maximum color resolution of 160x240 pixel, 64K RAM and a 8bit processor.

Corel

• KPT Collection: remarkable image transformations and original effects
• KnockOut: Masks hair, smoke, shadows, water, transparencies and any blurred or out-of-focus edges

CreoScitex

• Powertone: dynamic and colorful images that can be printed with only two inks. Not sold anymore???
  

CurveMeister

• CurveMeister: image corrections with various curves and color models

CyberView

• Image: advanced, interactive JPEG image compressor. It features selective (regional) image compression.
  

Cybia

• Hotshot: A selection of image-enhancement controls one one dialog
• Retrogade: Recreate classic effects as if you were shooting with traditional black & white film
• Flueron: Ultra-violet/fluorescent style colour shifts
• Alienator: alternative approach to colour-modification effects

Cytopia (out of business, but web site is still available)

• Photo Optics: correction and color special effects
  

Datamind

• Jade: Enhance image colors, contrast and dynamics, while preserving the overall quality of your images

Diaquest

• Digital Disk Recorder: Video capture/layoff for Digital Disk Recorders via ethernet and SCSI for image input/ouput
  

Diard Software

• Universe Image Creator: Create realistic images of space including stars, nebula, galaxies, and more

Digi Effects

• Web Euphoria: Including AgedFilm, an amazing old-movie effect, StarField, FogBank, VideoLook, Sabbatier and many more. Not sold anymore???

Digital Anarchy

• Primatte Chromakey: Take a foreground image of any resolution shot against a single color background, and replace that color with whatever you want.
• Backdrop Designer: Create resolution-independent backgrounds
• Texture Anarchy: For creating textures and borders
• ToonIt! Photo: Give your photos that sought-after cartoon look
  
  

Digital Element

• Aurora: add natural elements to any 2D PhotoShop image to enhance an existing picture or create new content from scratch
• Verdant: allows users to randomize, rotate, scale, and place plants and trees in Photoshop.
• Modelshop: Add 3D models to your images

Digital Film Tools

• Light!: Adds light to the scene just as if you were adding a light at the time of shooting
• Ozone: Independently adjustes the color and brightness of 11 brightness zones
• Snap: Interactive image cutout tool using a coarse to fine editing approach
• EZ Mask: Interactive image masking tool capable of extracting almost any object in an image
• Power Mask: Realtime, interactive tool capable of extracting almost any object in an image
• Power Stroke: Interactive stroke-based interface to quickly and intuitively perform targeted adjustments
• 55mm and Digital Film Lab were sold to Tiffen. See below!

Digital Workshop (out of usiness)

• Elemental: Create textures and patterns from stormy skies to burnished oak, from lava flows to dappled water.

Digifrontiers/Spinwave (out of business)

• HVS ColorGIF, HVS JPEG: have been discontinued.

Divine Project

• Divine Elemente: Exports designs from Photoshop to WordPress

DreamText

• DreamText: 3D fonts that can be rendered to your image with the help of a plugin.

DVP

• Eye Fidelity Tools: specialized processing solutions for professionals using digital cameras, scanners and printers in proofing as well as production
  

DXO

• DxO FilmPack: Simulates the colors and the grain of over 20 popular film types and transforms images into toned print
• DxO ViewPoint: Perspective correction

Dynasty Software

• Dynasty Studio Plugins: 40 plugins with effects that are known from Filter Factory filters

Engelmann

• Photomizer: Image optimization of the next generation

EPaperPress

• PTLens: Corrects lens pincushion/barrel distortion, chromatic aberration and vignetting

Escape Motions

• Flame Painter: Create original artworks, light effects, unconventional design or beautiful backgrounds

Esko

• Deskpak Flexo Tools: Resolve flexo specific printing issues and allow Photoshop operators to visualize changes
• Deskpak Ink Tools: Spot color ink retouching in Adobe® Photoshop made easy

EZlec

• EZlect: Creates selections with soft antialiasing by clicking on the object and background areas in an image.

Evenex

• De.Haze: Removes atmospheric haze from images to see more details from objects far away
• QR Code Generator: Creates QR Codes

Extensis

• Mask Pro, Intellihance Pro, PhotoFrame, pxl SmartScale, PhotoTools: were sold to onOne Software. See below!

Fantastic Machines

• FM Tile Tools: 21 image altering filters
• IFX PaintEngine: 6 brush types, 3 brush stroke algorithms, and 88 parameters to give each choice an unprecedented amount of variety

FDR Tools

• FDRCompressor: Compress the tonal value range of an image

Brian Fernandes

• Wallpampered: Change your desktop wallpaper from within Photoshop

FilterForge

• FilterForge: Build your own filters for creating seamless textures, visual effects, distortions, patterns, backgrounds and more

FixerLabs

• FocusFixer: Restores out-of-focus images
• NoiseFixer: Designed to remove 'noise' or 'graininess' from images
• ShadowFixer: Corrects problems caused by differing exposure levels in photos.
• SizeFixer : Enlarge your photos up to A1 size
• TrueBlur: Blur regions of your photos just as your camera would.

Flaming Pear

• Super BladePro: surface and texture generator
• Design Sextet: Six plugin filters to warp, recolor, abuse and dreamify your images. Includes Aetherize, Twist, Swerve, Lacquer, Silver, and Glare.
  
• Flood: realistic pseudo-3D watery reflections with control over waves, ripples, and perspective
• Melancholytron: Make pictures moody, nostalgic, and somehow sad
• Hue and Cry: Create abstract regions of color: vivid or pallid, structured or diffuse, endless weird imagery
• LunarCell: Instant planets. Fractal, reality-based, or just strange worlds
• Flexify: Bend spherical panoramas into vertiginous new shapes
• Glitterato: Stars and nebulas with lots of realism and little fuss
• SolarCell: Create suns in a fantasy style. Design your own sun with controls for every part of its appearance
• India Ink: Convert color images to unusual black-and-white halftones
• Mr. Contrast: Add dramatic contrast to photos and hyper-emphasize detail.
• Tesellation: turn any graphic into a seamlessly repeating tile
• Knot: Twisted 3-D abstractions
• Polymerge: Combine image gangs into bizarre composites
• Creative Pack: Winding edges, undulating surfaces, bright colors and patterns.
  

Flo's Filters

• UnDistort: For correcting deformations of photos

Fo2PIX (Out of Business)

• Buzz.Pro: Helps find image high and low-lights over a large range of scales, helps find the 'artists line', simplifies to produce blocks of colour.
• Buzz.X: Run a desired effect or style across multiple images allowing the creation of stunning artistic video. Create a living painting.

FocusMagic

• FocusMagic: corrects both "out of focus" blur and motion blur

Furbo Filters (Out of Business)

• Furbo Designer Pack is now available as Creative Pack from Flaming Pear. See above!

Frischluft

• flAIR: eight fast high quality filters
• LensCare: depth of field and out of focus generation

Geomantics

• FabricWeaver: generate tens of thousands of different woven fabrics in photorealistic detail

Gamut Imaging (Out of Business)

• ImageBook: enables people to create proof sheets consisting of thumbnail images in any size and style
  

GoldPanner

• AcuFilters: six filter plugins for blurring, sharpening, masking, removing noise and increasinf saturation

GraphicXtras (previously Sapphire Innovations)

• Andrew's Plugins vol 20: GXContrasted
• Andrew's Plugins vol 19: Circus Daze
• Andrew's Plugins vol 18: Carnival gradient colors
• Andrew's Plugins vol 17: Edge / Sketch plugins
• Andrew's Plugins vol 16: Gradients
• Andrew's Plugins vol 15: 100s of Color effects
• Andrew's Plugins vol 14: Motion
• Andrew's Plugins vol 13: Distortions /patterns / tiling plugins
• Andrew's Plugins vol 12: Gradients
• Andrew's Plugins vol 11: Blend Blurs
• Andrew's Plugins vol 10: Colors Surreal
• Andrew's Plugins vol 9: Gradient Blurs
• Andrew's Plugins vol 8: Gradient Smears
• Andrew's Plugins vol 7: Gradients Patterns
• Andrew's Plugins vol 6: Color cutoff
• Andrew's Plugins vol 5: noise effects
• Andrew's Plugins vol 4: Blurs / lines
• Andrew's Plugins vol 3: Photo
• Andrew's Plugins vol 2: Distort/blur
• Andrew's Plugins vol 1: 26 mixed
  

GrowCut

• GrowCut: An interactive image cutout tool designed to extract solid or opaque objects.

HDR Soft

• Tone Mapping: Tone Mapping function of Photomatix Pro available as Photoshop plugin

Hot Door

• Harmony: pick perfect color schemes right inside Photoshop. Not sold anymore???

Human Software

• AutoCorrect: Reclaim Lost Colors and Details in Photos
• AutoDenoise: Reduce Noise for sharper and crispier images
• AutoMask: Perform Precise Masking Fast... Hairs, Trees, Smokes, Transparencies, Blurred Edges
• AutoFocus: Denoise, deblur and sharpening tools
• AutoSelect: Change selectively colors in RGB without building Mask
• AutoSmooth: Smoothes surface and perform anti-aging while keeping image details
• DepthField: DOF tool to put your subject in focus
• ClassicFrames: tool to give the final classy touch to your images. MagicFrames: more than 400 ready made edges for all your images
• MagicStyles: More than 500 Ready Made Effects
• MagicTrack: A Drawing Application as a plug-in, circles, stars, frames
• OttoPaths: Get and manipulate outline text within Photoshop
• PhotoFract: Create your own fractal
• PhotoFixLens: Correct barrel, pincushion and perspective distortions, vignetting and fringing PhotoLight: Generate photographic lighting effect
• PhotoPatch: 200 ready made Patchwork/Weave/Mosaic
• PhotoRepeat: Create your own Fabric / WallPaper PhotoSurface: 110 ready made textures or surfaces
• PhotoSpray: brush with natural images
• PhotoTessel: Select one of your images and you will get amazing new patterns
• PhotoWeave: Create all kind of Plaids, Striped Fabrics or Patterns
• SelectPro: perform accurate, very smooth color corrections without creating any mask
• Squizz: all kind of distortions
• SpiroMaker: Create Spirographs (Trochoids)
• SmartPicker: Professional ColorPicker for Photoshop or Elements
• StarMaker: Create stars/bursts as paths, selection or layers
• Textissimo: 750 text effects
• XFile: efficient Upsizing algorithms for very Important Image Enlargements
  

I C Net (Out of Business)

• Filters Unlimited: A filter development system with 350 built-in filters

Imagedrome

• Bevel SE, Bevel Pro. Not sold anymore???
  

Imagelys

• Picture Styles: Includes a plugin that transfers the image to the Picture Styles application, which offers many texture effects.

Imageskill

• Background Remover: Select objects from images with complex background content by roughly marking colors inside and outside objects. Translucator: Extracts translucent objects (glass, smoke, fog, fur etc.) from image
• Magic Denoiser: Dramatically improved the look of images without blurring the edges and fine details
• Magic Sharpener: Sharpening without color halos and increased color noise
• Magic Enhancer Pro: essentially improve your photos – adjust lightness, contrast and color balance.
• Image Repainter: Borrows template image colors properties to change colors of source image.
• Tile Builder: Creates seamless patterns using symmetry rules
• Image Frame: Add frame and text to your photos.
  

ImageXpress (Out of Business???)

• ScanPrepPro: automates Photoshop's tools to produce top quality color separations, halftones, and line art
• Alius: takes posterization to a whole new level
• Deep Bit Filters: lets you work on 16-bit images
• AutoPilot: automatically turns that raw image into professional quality artwork, ready to publish on a printing press, a desktop printer or the web

Imagiam

• MaskWarrior: automatic generation of masks and paths. Not sold anymore???
• PathOptimizer: converts a mask into an optimized path. Not sold anymore???

The Imaging Factory (Out of Business)

• Unsharp Mask, Debarrelizer, Perspective,Vignette, Squeeze, White Balance, White Point, Color Equalizer, Chromex I, Convert To B&W, Noise Reduction, Gaussian Blur, Simulated DOF, Soft-Focus, Graduated Color, Graduated Fog, Color Correction

Imagenomic

• Noiseware: The better way to remove noise
• RealGrain: Simulates grain patterns and the look of film grain
• Portraiture: Removes imperfections in portrait shots while retaining important picture detail

Image Trends

• Fisheye-Hemi: Produces aesthetically pleasing images from a fisheye lens
• PearlyWhites: Automatically whitens and brightens teeth.
• ShineOff: Automatically removes the shine from skin.

Imagica

• Primate: remove objects from solid-colored backgrounds and composite them into new backgrounds

Impression FX

• PaintEngine: Simulate paint techniques

Import EPS

• Import EPS: imports level 1 or level 2 PostScript® or Encapsulated PostScript directly

Infinitimages

• PhotoPage: create high-quality digital and printable contact sheets. Not sold anymore???

InTouch

• Jpeg It!: allows easy baseline and progressive JPEG conversion. Not sold anymore???
  

Intrigue

• Shadow Illuminator: Restores details in shadows through physical modeling of light and surfaces.

July 20th

• DynamicRange Workshop : Enhances details and contrast, recovers highlight/shadow andincreases dynamic range of images
• GlamFocus: Smart Sharpen, Smart Blur, Diffusion, Grain
  

Kelby's Notes (Not available anymore???)

• Kelby's Notes: The answers to the top 100 most-asked Photoshop questions right in Photoshop

Kenebec

• Kenebec Filters: 17 plug-in filters for digital imaging, e.g. for sharpening, noise reduction and monochrome conversion.

Kekus Digital Home

• LensFix and Panotools: Extract flat images from panoramas, correct for lens distortions, re-map images between many different image projections. Based on Helmut Dersch's Panorama Tools.

Kinnetic FX

• Color Swap Deluxe: Three types of grayscale conversion which comes in handy when regular grayscale conversion and desaturation don't cut it

Kodak

• KODAK Photo CD Acquire Module: lets you select, customize and import Photo CD images. Not sold anymore???

Kodak AFS (see also Image Trends)

• Digital ROC : automatically restores color quality to digital images by removing the color cast from faded images and effects of tungsten and fluorescent lighting.
• Digital SHO: The Digital SHO™ software plug-in automatically reveals details hidden in shadows commonly caused by exposure problems such as backlit subjects, uneven flash illumination and partial shade.
• Digital GEM: Noise reduction plugin

Kuvic (Out of Business???)

• Kuvic Filters: 13 special effects plugins

Lastolite

• Foto Effects: Makes grads, corrects colours & distortions, softens and sharpens. Not sold anymore???

Lazy Nezumi

• Lazy Nezumi Pro: Smoothes your mouse and pen tablet strokes in real time while you draw

Licentia

• Imagenie: Automatic colour correction. Not sold anymore???

Little Ink Pot

• Sketcher - Create pencil and pen-and-ink sketch effects
• PhotoGrey - Simple yet powerful greyscale conversion with extra features
• Thredgeholder Pro - Very effective edge detection
• Chalkaholic Pro - Powerfulvirtual art effects are possible with this one.

LizardTech

• Genuine Fractals: was sold to onOne Software. See below.

Lokas Software

• Artistic Effects: Aqua, Chrome, Drop, Ice, Metal and Snow effects
• 3D Maker: Allows creation of pseudo 3D graphical elements out of 2D drawings

Lucis Art (Out of business)

• Lucis Art: Correct scans and repair improperly exposed images, Accurately enhance the smallest image detail, Create a surrealistic, brilliantly colored image, Mimic a watercolor painting, Add a textured and sculptured appearance

Luxology

• imageSynth: Generates high-resolution, tiling images from low-resolution sources using advanced image synthesis algorithms

MatchLight

• Digital Photography ToolKit: create realistic image composites at a fraction of the time and cost compared to conventional compositing methods

Magic Software

• Magic Seperator: Not sold anymore???

Mediachance

• DCE Tools: Various plugins for correcting, enhancing and fixing digital photos
• ReDynaMix: Will give your ordinary image a punch with vivid colors and crisp color tonality
• Color! Color!: Create bold, vivid colors without increasing the noise

Medialab

• SiteGrinder: Produce entire web sites from image layers in Photoshop

Mehdi

• ZoomEngine (previously Quick Enlarger): Enlarges pictures with a better quality than the resize tool of Photoshop

Metacreations (see Corel)

• Kai's Power Tools 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and KPT Convolver: Some are sold by Corel.

Microfrontier

• Pattern Workshop: create and edit patterns and use them to fill a selection. Not sold anymore???

Microsoft

• Impressionist: A plugin for creating impressive brush effects. Isn't available anymore. It was once delivered with Image Composer as a part of Frontpage 98 and Frontpage 2000 Standalone.

Multimedia Lab

• 3D Texture Painter: not sold anymore 

Fred Miranda

• DRI Pro: Dynamic range increase automation plugin
• BW Workflow Pro: B/W Conversion automation plugin
• CSpro: Sharpening for specific DSLR camera files
• ISOx Pro: Noise reduction automation plugin
• SR Professional: Shadow recovery automation plugin
• Intellisharpen: Sharpening automation plugin
• SI Pro: Image enlarging automation plugin
• ResizePro: Custom interpolation for specific DSLR cameras
• Web Presenter Pro: Image downsampling automation plugin
• Velvia Vision: Enhance color and tone in your photographs
  

namesuppressed

• Softener: add soft, glossy effects to your images
• Autochromatic: creates colorized, greyscale, duotone and tritone style images.
• Autointerlace: automatically creates the interlace effect you see on television screens

nik Multimedia

• Sharpener: Sharpening tools for images of any size and for any output/print process
• Color Efex: Fifty-five filters, including Sunshine, Polarization, Skylight, Graduated Sky Blue, Solarization, and many more
• Dfine: Noise and JPG artifacts reduction and a detail enhancement plug-in.
• Viveza: Selectively control color and light without the need for complicated selections or layer masks.
• Silver Efex Pro: Create professional quality black and white images
  

NovaDesign

• Cinematte: blue screen keying/chromakeying

OnOne Software

• Genuine Fractals: enables you to create resolution-independent images from any size file and lets you print superior quality enlargements without any degradation in image quality
• Mask Pro: Versatile masking in Photoshop
• Intellihance Pro: Fast and easy image enhancement
• PhotoFrame: Endless border effects in Photoshop
• pxl SmartScale:Creates high quality scaled images by preserving the color and brightness data contained in the original image
• Essentials for Photoshop Elements: Correct color, remove unwanted backgrounds, add creative borders and resize your photos
• PhotoTools: 150 photographic effects
• FocalPoint: Put the focus where they want
• PhotoTune: Six step process to correct the color in your digital photos

Outbackphoto

• EasyS Plus SharpeningToolkit: Filter/action set to help sharpening your pictures
• Tonality Tuning Toolkit: Filter/action set to help tuning the tonality of your pictures
• Variations: Finetuning you pictures by using variations
  

OutdoorGrace

• ResizeIT: for resizing your images

Pangea Software

• PanoPreviewer: Lets you preview equirectangular images as VR panoramas

Panopticum (Out of business)

• Alpha Strip: a unique set of procedures for cutting the images on alpha channel.
• Digitalizer: image can be represented by a letter matrix, the elements of which will form the shape of initial image
• Engraver: cutting through images with thin lines that will form a geometric pattern as if engraving
• Fire: realistic fire effects
• Lens Pro: designing realistic lenses and 3D-crystals as well as crystalline 3D-models
  

Pantone

• Colors and Black: create duotones in Photoshop
  

Paravue (Out of Business???)

• Turbo Mask: Cutout objects with one mouse click
  

Paurex

• Image Styles: Away to make an unlimited amount of beautiful and photo realistic graphic images in a minimal amount of time.

PCDip

• PCDip: creates indexes for Photo CDs
  

Perforce

• P4GT: Enables seamless access to version control for artists, developers and everyday users Photoshop. Not sold anymore???
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Pegasus Imaging

• JPEG Wizard: create smaller, faster downloading images without compromising quality
• ImagePress JPEG2000: compress images to 100% compatible JPEG 2000 format

PhotoLightning

• PhotoLightning: Makephoto prints, send emails without attachments, create slide shows, burn CD's, post photos to web logs, and make enhancements to photos

PhotoPurify

• PhotoPurify: Makes the colors of a print match the colors on the screen.

Photo Toolbox

• PT Portrait: Gain the unexpected portrait retouching results with an easy way

PhotoTune (Out of Business)

• SkinTune was sold to OnOne Software.
• 20/20 Color MD: Not sold anymore???

Photron

• Primate: was sold to Imagica

PictoColor

• iCorrect OneClick : Automatic white balance, exposure, and saturation correction with a single click
• iCorrect Portrait: Point-and-click color correction software for portrait, wedding, school, sport, and event photographers
• iCorrect EditLab Pro: High Speed Professional Color Correction and Color Management Software
• inCamera: Create ICC profiles for digital cameras and scanners

Picture Code

• Noise Ninja (Bundle Versions): Solution for removing noise and grain from digital photographs and scanned film images.

PixelEnlarge

• PixelEnlarge: An image enlargement tool specialized on non anti-aliased images.

PixelGenius

• PhotoKit: Provides digital replications of common analog photographic effects
• PhotoKit Sharpener: Provides a complete sharpening workflow
• PhotoKit Color: Precise color corrections, automatic color balancing and creative coloring effects
• PhotoKit-EL: Gives you all the wonders of a darkroom without the chemicals. Not sold anymore???

PixelRibs

• McFilters: Nine plugin filters, which use information from the selection mask to modulate filter parameters

PixelVistas

• PhotoLift: Enhances local contrast and amplifies fine detail
• EasySharp: Selective edge-sharpening

Pixeology

• Artistic Halftone: Create stippling and halftone artwork in seconds

Pixxsel

• Photo Evolution Pro: Optimizes the white balance, shadows/highlights, contrast and sharpness of photos. Only available in German language.

PluginCreativity.com

• blender: An interactive blend tool to fade images into each other quickly and easily.
• elemental: Creates seamless patterns and textured designs which are entirely independent of resolution.
• splatter: Scatter rain, snow, confetti, clouds or any other image across your picture.
• textArt: Create and customise hundreds of special text effects

PluginMaster (Out of Business)

• PluginMaster: Solution for managing and using plugins in your favorite application

PowerRetouche

• Anti-aliasingr: Filter edge roughness and jagged edges in graphics and images.
• Black Definition:Control black in photos and graphics as if it were a colorchannel.
  
• Brightness: Edit brightness without loosing color
• Color Correction: For color correction and removing colorcast
  
• Color Fringe Remover: Remove chromatic aberrations
• Contrast: Control black-white contrast independent of color-contrast and without changing color, hue or saturation
  
• Radial Density: Correct radial exposure and radial brightness independently.
  
• Dynamic Range Compression: Shadow illumination without artefacts like edge halos or fake illumination.
  
• Edgeline: Convert photos and images to line-drawings
  
• Equalization: Target equalization to lights, midtones and darks, as well to specific colors
• Exposure: Correct under- or overexposure
  
• Film Grain: Applies grain across brightness levels
• Golden Section: Instantly draw any divine proportion on your image or a transparent layer as an aid for cropping and composition
  
• Graduated Color: Digital equivalent of traditional graduated color filters
• Histogram repair: Repair a posterized histogram
• Illumination Editor: Change or edit the illumination in a photo
• Lens Correction: Fix distorted photos with our lens tool.
  
• Noise Filter: Five different methods to filter noise in digital photographs and images
  
• Posterize: With this plugin you can posterize color hues and values independently and freely select any number of levels for either
  
• Radial Density: Get even exposure from center to corner throughout the photo.
• Saturation: Now you can edit saturation without splitting the image up into primary colors
  
• Sharpness Editor: Sharpen photos and get sharper edges with our plugins novel unsharp masks
  
• Soft Filter: This plug in does exactly the same as traditional lens soft-filters
• Black & White Studio: Convert digital color to black and white photography.
  
• Toned Photos: Tone your colorphoto or B/W photo sepia or like any other toned print.
  
• Transparency: Transparent backgrounds and masks can easily be made for graphic design
  
• White-balance Correction: Auto-mode calibrates the correct color-filter for any lightsource

Pro Digital Software

• StarFilter: Add star filter effects to your images.

Proxel

• Lens Corrector: Corrects your lens aberrations; barrel, pin cushion, fish eye, translation or a combination of all.

Puffin Designs

• Lens Flare Pro: doesn't seem to be sold anymore after the company was acquired by Pinnacle. See Digital Anarchy for Knoll Light Factory which is an enhanced version of it!
  

Ransen Software

• Repligator Pro: 100 image effects

Redfield Plugins

• Sketch Master: Create realistic looking hand-drawings from photos
• Emblazer: Futuristic patterns and ornaments
• Plasteroid : Tool for texturization of plain pictures and photo-frames making
• Ripples Magic: Creates composite 3D surfaces
• Texturation 3D: A multilayer texture mapper
• Lattice XP: A 3D structure maker
• Jama 2000: A deformation tool and pattern/texture generator Perfectum: Remove digital noise, enhance surface smoothness and improve edge antialiasing
• iEmboss: Creates a colorful emboss
• Expressionist: Precision tool for facial expression synthesis, for making caricatures from photos, and for animated portraits creation
• Umatrix: Synthesizer of Geometric Abstractions.
• Fractalius: Creates unusual, eccentric artworks
  

Red Giant Software

• Magic Bullet PhotoLooks: Lets you manipulate and experiment with light while preserving essential photographic detail.
• Knoll Light Factory: Allows you to design photo-realistic or enhanced lighting effects

Red Paw Media (Out of business)

• Process FX : Digitally simulate traditional film cross-processing techniques
  
• BleachBypass Pro: Recreate the atmospheric effects as seen in motion pictures
• B&W Pro 2: Convert colour images to black and white the easy way
• GradFilter: Apply solid and colour graduated density filters easily in post processing
• Fog: Adds gradient fog effects to your photos
  

Red Prince

• Pixie Dust Pro: Various color effects

Richard Rosenman

• Advanced Color Corrector: Provides color correction controls
• Lens Corrector PRO: For correcting camera lens distortion
• 3D Sphere Pro: Generates 3D spheres with fully customizable object, surface, lighting, transparency and masking prope
• Depth of Field Generator PRO: Depth of Field and Bokeh effects

Reindeer Graphics

• Optipix: for enhancing digital photographs
• Fovea Pro: for the computer-based image processing and measurement of images
• Focus Extender: Combine an extended depth of field image stack into a single image
• The Image Processing Tool Kit: tools that include most of the functions of Fovea Pro for 8 bit per channel greyscale and RGB color images, excluding those that deal with surface images, automation, and feature classification
  

RKD (Out of Business)

• SmarterAR: removes artifacts and enhances detail in digital camera images.
• SmarterNR: removes noise and grain from images
• SmarterResize: Photoshop automation plug-ins that resize and set the resolution for images as the second to last step before printing or saving to the web
• SmarterSharpenX: edge-sharpening tool
• ChannelMixer: custom conversion to B&W

Sakurai Optics

• IrisFilter: Gives the natural taste of camera lens to your images

Satori

• PaintFX: real-time 64-bit vector paint effects

Sattwa (Russian web site) --> For a translated version see here: Sattwa

• Descreen: Removes moire patterns from scanned images
• Noise Reduction: noise reduction plugin

Scand

• SVG Kit: SVG format support for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements

Scarab Labs

• Star Filter: Adds star streaks to lights and highlights in an image

SCC

• SCC Plug-In Kit: an IPTC caption editing interface for Photoshop. Not sold anymore???

Schneider-Kreuznach

• B+W Portrait & Family: six filter plugins for optimizing your photos
• B+W Outdoor: six filter plugins for optimizing your photos

Second Glance (Out of Business)

• ScanTastic: Scan directly into Adobe Photoshop or onto your desktop PhotoSpot: creates continuous tone separations using spot-color inks
• Chromassage: color table manipulation and palette rotation as well as color 'injection' to colorize images into 24 bit space
• PhotoCell: designed to provide animation from Adobe's popular image editor by converting Photoshop layers into animation files

Sharptype

• Sharptype: Provides ultra-clear type at small point sizes, which will improve your compositions' readability dramatically.
  

Signum

• SureSign Plug-ins: Allow you to embed and read SureSign watermarks in your digital images.

SilverFast

• Silverfast : Application and plugin for scanning
• DC VLT/Pro: RAW Converter and digital camera tools
• HDR: Read raw files and process the data as if he had access to the original image on the scanner

SilverOxide

• Silver IR: emulate the look of IR images
• APX 25, APX 100, Tri-X, PanX, TMAX, PlusX etc.: Turn your images into B/W
• Warm/Sepia Toning Filter: For toning B&W photographs

SimpleFilter

• TransluSense : Creates soft crossings between foreground and background and between different picture elements
• Maskerade: Creates luminance masks, color masks, saturation masks and edge masks
• ColorMixer: Somehow different channel mixer
• GreyMixer: Converts color images into gray tone images

Sitejazz (Out of Business)

• smartGIF: lets you divide a single Photoshop file into multiple Web ready GIFs
  

Stellar Science

• NITF Escalator: File format plugin
• J2K Escalator: File format plugin
• ECW Escalator: File format plugin

Stoik

• ArtGallery: Oil-paint, Engrave, Hand-Draw and more
• Rubber: deformation and plasticity effects: Rubber, Warp, Page Curl, and more
  

Supporting Computers

• Artizen: Various tone mapping operator plugins

Sur-Reality

• Distort: curve-lines gradient morpher-distorber, that use Photoshop paths like shape lines

Tech Pool

• Transverter PI: brings PostScript rasterizing to Photoshop

TeleGraphics

• Rastus: Creates high resolution stochastically screened bitmaps from halftone images

The Plugin Site

• Plugin Galaxy: 160 special effects and 400+ presets
• HyperTyle: Generates various effects with the help of seamless textures.
• ColorWasher: Corrects the colors, the contrast and the exposure of photos with revolutionary algorithms and provides an arsenal of photo correction tools.
• FocalBlade: Automatically sharpen photos for screen display and print, deblur them and also add blur, soft focus and glow effects.
• LightMachine: Perform shadow/highlight, lighting and color-based corrections without the need for time-comsuming selections and layer stacks
• BWStyler: For b&w conversion, for creating traditional b&w effects and for enhancing b&w photos
• ContrastMaster: For effective contrast enhancement as well as creating dramatic contrast looks, photorealistic paintings and HDR-like effects
• NoiseControl: Effectively removes image noise while preserving essential details and the photographic quality of the image
• ColorStyler: Provides color effects, recreates traditional film effects and gives your photos a special style
• FilterHub: Replacement for the Filter menu of Photoshop and Photoshop Elements
• ElementsXXL: Countless Photoshop features for Photoshop Elements
• MetaRaw: Enhanced functionality for Adobe Camera Raw
• LayersXXL: 180 photo and design features to Photoshop Elements
• ActionsXXL: Action recording and batch processing with actions for Photoshop Elements

Tiffen

• DFX: More than 2000 standard, exclusive and special effect filters

TNK Soft

• Manga-Effect Plugin: Generates special effects which are commonly used by Japanese comics
• Tone Generator: Generates various patterns useful for cartoon designers

Totally Rad

• RadLab: Simplifies photo effects. Intuitive browsing and a powerful new rendering engine combine to give you easy, unparalleled control.

Tools for Televison

• Tools for Television PRO: Adds an additional palette to Photoshop that is loaded with video specific functions for Photoshop

Topaz Labs

• Vivacity: set of Photoshop plugins for image scaling, noise reduction, JPG artifact removal and sharpening
• Adjust: Redefining Creative Exposure for Photoshop
• Simplify: Turn any regular photo into a masterpiece of art
• DeNoise: An advanced noise reduction plugin Clean: Artistic effects like artistic detail removal and edge stylization
  
• ReMask: Easily extract intricate image details
• DeJPEG: Substantially increase JPEG image quality
  
• Detail: Control the appearance and intensity of small, medium and large image details
  

Total Integrations

• IRIS CT: allows reading and writing of IRIS Front End Processor (FEP)
• HandShake LW: reads and writes files in Handshake linework (LW) format
  

Tribeca

• DCF Full Spectrum: Makes the colors in your photos look more accurately

TrueView (Out of Business)

• PhotoFlair: Correct under-exposed dark areas of an image without affecting correctly exposed areas.

Two Pilots

• Color Pilot: For color correction
• Retouch Pilot: Remove imperfections from a photo
• MakeUp Pilot: Aportrait software that allows you to apply makeup directly onto your photos
• Beauty Pilot: Bring out the beauty in women's portraits
• Perspective Pilot: For perspective correction of a photo
• Red Eye / Pet Eye Pilot: Fix red eyes in photos of animals and people

Two Pilots - Tint Guide

• Picture Cutout Guide: Separates solid objects from the background, makes a photomontage.
• Image Resize Guide: Smart image resize and objects removal.
• Photo Montage Guide: Smart image resize and objects removal, photomontage.
• MakeUp Guide: Adds makeup directly on photos.
• Cosmetic Guide: Allows you to correct cosmetic defects directly on photos.
• Beauty Guide: Adds makeup and corrects cosmetic defects directly on photos.
• Pet Eye Fix Guide: Corrects shining eyes on your pet's photos. Corrects shining eyes on your pet's photos.

Ulead (Aquired by Corel)

• GIF/JPEG SmartSaver, Type.Plugin, Web Razor, Web.Plugin, Web Extensions: (Have become part of PhotoImpact)

UltraSharpen (Out of Business)

• UltraSharpen: a sharpening plug-in for Adobe Photoshop

Ultradom (Out of Business)

• Bokeh Simulator: Create bokeh and blur photo effects

Pinnacle Imaging Systems (previously Unified Colors)

• HDRExplose: Automatically merge multiple exposures into one HDR image
• 32 Float: Adjust color, brightness and contrast while maintaining a full 32-bit workflow

Van Der Lee

• Old Movie: transform all your digitized images into photographs and films of the old days
• Halftone: apply perfect-quality halftone dithering to any image
• UnPlugged-X: Enhanced version of the free UnPlugged plug-ins
• FilterOptix: Lens filter emulation.

Vertigo (Out of Business)

• HotTEXT: Create real 3D text right inside Photoshop.
• 3D Dizzy: Work with real 3D models and select camera angles and lighting
• QuickSpace: Little brother to Dizzy
  

Vertus

• Fluid Mask: Cut out complex objects in images with ease

Vicman Software

• Anti Red Eye: remove the common red-eye effect from your images almost automatically

Vismas

• Web Image Guru: optimizes web images
  

Virtual Painter (Out of Business)

• Virtual Painter: Turn your favorite digital photos into realistic-looking paintings in seconds

Vivid Details (was renamed to PhotoTune)

• Test Strip: color correction (discontinued)

Vizros

• Vizros Plug-ins: five filters that provide an interactive environment to make real three-dimensional page wrapping effect.

Wasabi (Out of Business)

• SkyPaint: paint tool for creating and editing 3D, seamless, 360° panoramic images

Xaos Tools (Out of Business)

• Segmation: converts your Photoshop images into intriguing vector based line art, paint-by-number, and Escher-like patterns
• Paint Alchemy: transforms your images with painterly effects like Colored Pencil, Impressionist or Pastel
• TypeCaster: turns ordinary type into broadcast-quality 3D titles with depth, texture, and contours
• Terrazzo: creates symmetrical tiled backgrounds
• Total Xaos: Bundle of Paint Alchemy, Terrazzo and TypeCaster

Xe847

• Xe847pro: Produces digital photos and video that appear as seen through the human eye

Xero Graphics

• Quasar: Give your images some sparkle with this starmaker plugin.
• MetaGrad: Provides most of the effects filters that were popular with 35mm photographers
• Conditioner: 5 essential tools for fine-tuning your images
• Refiner: Cleans out unwanted grain, deals with JPEG artifacts, smooths skin tones, and improves sharpness without exaggerating noise.

Xinet

• FullPress Versioning plug-in for Photoshop: Automatically creates, saves and manages versions of files

XtraSens

• Retina: Enhance perceived contrast, brightness, sharpness, depth and resolution.

YouSendIt

• YouSendIt: Allows designers to send files of any size directly from Photoshop. Files delivered are secure and can be tracked.

ZaxWerks

• 3D Invigorator: Takes any Freehand, Illustrator or Vector clip art or Type 1 font, turns it into an ornamental 3D model and renders it. Not sold anymore???