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Plugin Newsletter - August / September 2010
CONTENTS
PLUGIN GALAXY FOR WINDOWS: Version 2.01 with several nice new features PLUGIN COMMANDER: Version 1.61 installs and runs more reliably TPS PANEL: Version 1.04 supports Photoshop CS5 and new plugin updates
NEW POLL: Do you use Lightroom as well as Photoshop for processing your photos? THE DISCUSSION FORUMS: New Lightroom Forum Sections, The Ulead Story
GRAPHICS NEWS: Photoshop
CS5 Update, Lightroom/Camera Raw Update, Bokeh 2, PaintShop Photo Pro
X3 Ultimate, Nikon Photo Contest
Dear Reader, The Plugin Newsletter took a summer break, but we were
not lazy. A lot of updates of our products became available as you can
see below. With the release of the Standalone and Lightroom
versions of our PhotoWiz plugins, more resources concerning standalone
tools and Lightroom add-ons will be added to The Plugin Site and also
mentioned in this newsletter. There are already two new sections for Lightroom
users on The Plugin Site Forum. So hopefully The Plugin Site will become
more interesting for other user groups.
PHOTOWIZ FOR WINDOWS Plugin updates and new Standalone/Lightroom versions
Standalone/Lightroom versions of these five PhotoWiz plugins were released too. They consist of a standalone application and an external editor for Adobe Lightroom. Both let you open and edit multiple images non-destructively as well as batch save them. The standalone supports Camera Raw, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PSD and other image formats and can be (mis)used as a raw converter. For more information and for a demo download visit
PLUGIN GALAXY FOR WINDOWS Version 2.01 with several nice
new features Version 2.01 of Plugin Galaxy for Windows contains the following main improvements: A 64-bit version is available, it renders 1.5 to 4 times faster, features an interactive preview cross, displays selection in the preview and offers 23 new presets. The update is free for registered users of Plugin Galaxy 2. The Plugin Galaxy 2.01 demo version offers four free effects (Fusion>PopArt and Zoom), which do not add a watermark when used. For more information and for a download see
PLUGIN COMMANDER Plugin updates and new Standalone/Lightroom
versions Version 1.61 of Plugin Commander for Windows contains various installer improvements and bug fixes to make it install and work more reliably. Additionally Plugin Commander now supports visual styles. Plugin Commander lets you edit, convert, preview and
run Photoshop plugins and also supports various other plugin types. The
Light Version of Plugin Commander is free, the Pro version is commercial.
TPS PANEL Version 1.04 supports Photoshop CS5 and new plugin updates
For more information and for a demo download visit
POLL RESULTS Which is your favorite masking
tool? 3. Topaz Remask: 7%,
30 votes 11. DFT EZ Mask / Power Mask:
1%, 6 votes More than 2/3 of all users are content with the masking features of their graphics application. Those people who use masking plugins favor Remask, Mask Pro, Smart Mask, Fluid Mask and Knock Out. For more poll results please visit the
NEW POLL Do you use Lightroom as well as Photoshop for processing your photos? Actually this poll about Photoshop/Lightroom usage was
already done two years ago, but a lot can happen within two years. So
it will be interesting to see if more user moved in one or the other direction.
There are five choices: either that you use only Photoshop or only Lightroom,
both evenly or one more than the other.
THE DISCUSSION FORUMS New Lightroom Forum Sections, The Ulead Story There are two new forums about Adobe Lightroom available now: Lightroom
(for discussing Lightroom related things)
The Ulead Story
FREE PLUGINS AND TOOLS Kill White, Refocus DC, Big PNG,
CollageIt, Pola, Corel MediaOne 2 Starter Kill White is a plugin
(for Windows) that makes white color in an image transparent. There is
also a Pixel Bender version that can also be used on the Mac. There are
also four free scripts for Photoshop on the same web site. The Refocus DC plugin (for Windows) repairs
blurred unfocused images. It works only for slightly blurred images and
offers a deblurring radius of up to 10 pixels. It claims to be an advanced
version of the Remove Lens Blur option of Photoshop's Smart Sharpen filter. Big PNG is a file format plugin (for Win/Mac)
that is faster than Photoshop's built-in PNG format and supports 16 bit
images. Additionally it allows opening and saving PNG image files that
are larger than 30,000 pixel on one side. Several of the other plugins
of Telegraphics are now also available as a 64-bit Windows and Mac version. CollageIt is a free collage maker (for Windows)
which automatically creates a collage out of multiple photos. There are
a few parameters like space, margin, rotation, sparse, shadow and frame
that influence how the photos are distributed. But the photos are distributed
more or less randomly and you cannot change their position manually. Pola is a tool (for Win/Mac/Linux) that simulates
the look of polaroids. It is more a toy than serious software and the
user interface needs familiarization. The Pola window looks like a Polaroid
and you have to drag and drop an image on it. Pola automatically saves
the result in the same folder as the image file. Unfortunately the output
size of the image is limited to 410x497 pixel. Additionally you can add
some text below the Polaroid if you click on the bottom border of the
window. Corel MediaOne 2 Starter is a free digital
image editing and management tool (for Windows). It lets you create multimedia
slide shows and scrapbooks, search for photos, add picture frames and
text, remove blemishes, whiten teeth or paint on a sun tan, watch and
trim video clips and save video frames as a still pictures. As Corel does
not offer it for download anymore, you can get it from these web sites: For more free plugins and tool, please visit the
GRAPHICS NEWS Photoshop CS5 Update, Lightroom/Camera Raw Update, Bokeh
2, PaintShop Photo Pro X3 Ultimate, Nikon Photo Contest The Adobe Photoshop 12.0.1 update (Photoshop
CS5) offers increased performance and fixes crashes, error messages and
UI problems among other problems. The Lightroom 3.2 and Camera Raw 6.2 updates
include support for 16 new popular camera models including the Canon EOS
60D and Sony Alpha NEX. 120 new lens profiles are also included. The Lightroom
3.2. allows publishing directly to Facebook and SmugMug. It also addresses
a number of issues reported by customers. Alien Skin Software released Bokeh 2, a new
version of its lens simulation software. Support for Lightroom and a 64-bit
Photoshop version are included. Multiple focus regions are supported and
there are new focus region shapes. The preview reacts much faster and
more interactive. Corel announced the release of Corel PaintShop
Photo Pro X3 Ultimate. Apart from PSP X3 it contains an extended set
of tools including KPT Collection, Painter Essentials 4 and a 144-page
manual. The 33rd Nikon Photo Contest International accepts
entries by November 30, 2010. Over 51,000 photos were submitted to the
previous contest two years ago. There are two contest categories: a free
subject category and one called "Energy". 53 prizes are awarded
by a panel of international photographers. An exhibition of the winning
photographs is planned.
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