More Plugins for PhotoshopPhotoTune
Of the dozens, scores, hundreds of plugins for Photoshop on the market, many are somewhat superfluous or redundant. Some, however, will make Photoshop even better than it is already.PhotoTune is one of the more useful for anyone who deals with a lot of colour correction, particularly with portraits. Travel a lot and take pictures of people around the world then this is a great help. Getting skin tones just right can be a tricky problem. The slightest imperfection or colour shift can be noticeable on skin and the subject will never to happy. Skintune has five categories of skin colour: African, Asian, European, Latin and Middle Eastern. The nearest acceptable skin colour will be found automatically and then manual fine-tuning can be done with hue, brightness and saturation. Knoll's Light FactoryLight Factory is the work of John Knoll, one of the two Knoll brothers who originally developed Photoshop, so he probably knows a thing or two about it :-) .
This plugin for Photoshop simulates flare and reflections caused by a light source into a camera lens.There is a large range of settings and controls and about 40 preset effects. Text and logos can be given there own flare points. 
Explosions can be given even more impact.Extra sparkle can be added to 2D and 3D objects. The effects can be very subtle or quite wild for anyone making a fantasy galaxy. It is not a cheap plugin but is the most comprehensive of its type. psd2fla
From the people who make SiteGrinder which converts Photoshop pages into web pages, their psd2fla plug-in will convert Photoshop into Flash. An image can be saved as Flash, avoiding all the normal mundane tasks of exporting, importing and adjusting each image. It will save a layered image as a .fla file, so the Photoshop design can be opened directly in Flash and worked on immediately, still as a layered image. FlamingPearFlamingPear offer a range of plugins for Photoshop which are useful, fun and cheap.
Flood is certainly worth the entry fee. It creates extremely realistic water ripples with great control over wave and ripple size, shape and complexity through a range of sliders. Perspective, horizon, blur and colour are also controllable. By making a copy layer, the Flood filter can be applied to this layer. With a mask and brush, a good blend can be made between For a professional graphics person who needs to make loads of buttons and textures, Super BladePro can be a great help. Flexify can reshape images into super wide-angles or fish-eye lens formats. SolarCell is for the fantasy graphics people. It'll produce flare, halos and diffractions to go with the new inter-galactic spheres and explosions. Other plugins for Photoshop from FlamingPear can warp, distort, recolour and add filter effects.
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Super BladePro is all about textures and is a border line case.
FlamingPear also give away a number of free photoshop plugins. Usually they are without controls although there should be something useful for everyone among them.
