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Number of Companies: 187

ABSoft

• Neat Image (Home+/Pro+ Version): 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

• Bokeh: From changing the depth of field to placing a radial sweet spot and adding a vignette.
• Eye Candy Impact: Create chrome, brushed metal, glass, bevels, shadows, reflections and more.
• Eye Candy Textures: A collection of ten seamless texture generators, including snake and lizard skin, fur, brick, stone and wood.
• Eye Candy Nature: 10 Photoshop filters, which create fire, smoke, rust, snow, ice and more
• Xenofex: Realistic natural phenomena and sophisticated distortions
• Splat!: combines frames, textures, edges, borders, mosaics and more
• Image Doctor: removes blemishes and defects, quickly repairs over-compressed JPEGs, and seamlessly replaces unwanted details and objects
• Exposure: Recreate the look of traditional B/W and color films
• Blow Up: Offers high quality image resizing
• SnapArt: Creates natural media artwork in a single step

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

• 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.
  

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

• 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

• 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

• 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
• Knoll Light Factory: Allows you to design photo-realistic or enhanced lighting effects
• 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!

Digifrontiers/Spinwave (Out of Business???)

• HVS ColorGIF, HVS JPEG: have been discontinued.
  

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

Dynasty Software

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

EPaperPress

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

Extensis

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

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

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

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

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

Imagedrome

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

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

Imagica

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

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

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

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

• 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???

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

• 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

• 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.

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.

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

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

• 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

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 Paw Media

• 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

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

• 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
• B/W Styler: 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
• Plugin Galaxy: 20 filter plugins with 150+ basic effects like like transparency manipulation, blurring, texture and pattern generation, noise creation, mirroring, warping, metal, chrome, neon, pop art, glass, rainbow, sunshine and star effects. Colorize, add edges to your photos or even encrypt them.
• HyperTyle: Generates texture, surface, paint, erosion, transparency, edge, frame and shadow effects with the help of seamless textures.

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

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
  

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

• 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

Ulead

• 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

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

• 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

• 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???