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Many Photoshop-compatible plugins
were created with the Filter Factory tool that was released by Adobe
back in 1994/95. They can be used in many image editing applications
as well as the User Filter of GIMP and the ForgeFX plugin in ImageFX
on the Amiga. There are almost 3000 Filter Factory plugins available.
Most of them are more or less experimental.
If you want to have a larger and zoomable preview
for these Filter Factory plugins under Windows, please get FilterMeister
and open the Filter Factory plugins with it. You can also recompile
them to new plugins if you purchase FilterMeister.
Most Filter Factory (FF) plugins are only available
for Windows, but you can also use them on the Mac with the help of FilterFoundry.
FilterFoundry is able to extract the FF source code from Windows FF
plugins and compile them as Mac plugins.
Plugin
Commander Pro for Windows also lets you convert and create Mac FF
plugins, but these will only work under MacOS 8 and 9. Additionally
Plugin Commander Pro lets you convert FF plugins to Premiere FF plugins
for use in Premiere 4.0 to 6.5. These plugins won't work in Premiere
Pro though.
If you should have trouble making the plugins
work under Windows, please go to the Tutorial
Page that explains detailed how to make them work. There is
also a Tutorial
on installing 8bf plugins in different applications, if you
shouldn't know how to do it.
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AFH
4 filters for creating simple square beveled buttons and 2 color distortion
effects.
Alf's
Border FX, Alf's Power Toys and Alf's Decolorizer
Dozens of filters for creating b/w or colored gradient images and patterns.
Some of them are available in the Filter
Factory Galleries
Andrew's
Filters 1 - 47
More than 1000 filters with mostly psychedelic color effects and modern-art-like
patterns. It takes quite some time to explore all of these effects. The quality
of the effects is highly variable. There are some very nice effects and some
that are only useful for very exotic designs.
Balder
Olrik
7 filters with various effects
Button Duo
2 filters for creating round and square buttons.
Convert
- Currently Down!!!
A filters for turning colored images into black and white ones.
Corrective
- Currently Down!!!
A spot light filter.
CPK Design
14 filters with bevel, distortion and convolver
effects
Crescent
Moon and Two Moon
8 filters with various effects
David Blend Filters 
The collection
consist of 13 plugins. The three "Frosted Edger" plugins apply a vignette
of varying radius and intensity. The three "Gradient Sky" plugins overlays
the image with userdefined color gradient for enhancing the colors of photos.
"Highlight Correction" darkens overly bright image areas. The two "Transparent
Sky" plugins replaces bright or dark image areas with transparency for making
composite images. Finally, "B/W v Color Tiling" and "Contrast Checkers" generate
tiling effects, "Zebra Stripe Frame" creates zebra stripe frames and "Alternating
Even Bars" is a two color stripe maker. The white vignette filter and two
of the gradient sky filters are the best ones in the collection and really
recommended..
David
Hull's Dither Filters
(Mac only) - Currently Down!!!
3 filters for creating dithering effects
DC Layer and DCspecial
2 filters for manipulating the Alpha Channel,
13 filters with various effects
Dynasty Software -
Currently Down
... released 30 Filter Factory plugins. They mostly produce psychedelic
patterns, colorful gradients and noise effects. The plugins are quite simple,
because they were created with the old Filter Factory tool. The plugins are
free, but the author asks for a small donation if you like them.
Ecosse
13 filters
Edesign
Filters
2 filters (Grid Creator and Eliminate White)
FACTORY OUTPUT
- Currently Down
... offers some filters from the Filter
Factory Galleries. The collection contains the filters Channel 5, Chaos Tile,
Colour Switcher, Dimensia, Dynamic Contrast, Edge Saturate, Jumble, Print
Screen and Pseudo Gamma.
Flanger
... produces color distortions. It was created with Filter Factory and more
for people who like experimental looks. You need an Adobe ID, which can be
requested for free, to download it.
Fresnel
Reflection Plugin
... creates a transparent sphere effect. It is available for Windows and as
an AFS file for using in Filter Factory on the Mac.
Simple
10 filters without sliders for creating tiles
and textures.
Neu
11 filters that create greyscaled textures
Transparency -
Currently Down!!!
7 filters for manipulating the Alpha Channel.
Enki
5 filters
Francois Saluden's Entrelacement
A filters for simulating TV scan lines.
Feiyang
- Currently Down!!!
6 chinese filters producing simple color effects.
Filter Factory Galleries A-V
19 compilations containing almost 380 filters
from different authors.
FunHouse, Blurosse, Tilersse, Psychosis and Distorte
37 filters for distortion, blur and tile effects
IPC Digital Filters
- Currently Down!!!
2 filters (80A and Synthetic Polarizer) for correcting the colors of a photo.
Johann's Filters 2.0
Most of them are pattern creation filters,
but there are also some special effects like Aged Film, Watercolor, Barcode
and Focal Blur.
Gonzalez B/W
A very simple filter that turns a color image into B/W with the help of red,
green and blue sliders. So this filter is very similar to the Channel Mixer
filter of Photoshop. There is also a Spanish version of the plugin available.
Graham
White Filters
Bleach Bypass, Blur Threshold, Dual Threshold, RGB to Grayscale, Blur Color,
Blur Custom, Channel Noise, Channel Shift and Plain Gradient.
Gravitational Lenser
A filter that simulates gravitational distortions.
Greg's
Factory Output I & II
2 x 12 filters with different effects
Groan Zone
6 filters with that produce color effects
Harry's Filters
55 filters with various effects e.g. colorizing, simulation, distortion, gradients,
mirroring
I-Decay
20 color and distortion filters
Tatsuyas Filters
The Tatsuya Filters collection (Win/Mac) now
includes 100 filters for creating special black and white or grayscale patterns.
Unfortunately these filters are only available in AFS format. This means that
you need Plugin Commander
or the original Filter Factory plugin to use them or to compile them to Photoshop-compatible
plugins
kang
64 filters with interesting pattern effects
Kevin Daniel
- Currently Down!!!
5 filters with different effects
Mack's
Filters
A page curl and a simple Remove White filter
MediaSpark
9 filters for fade effects and the Alpha Channel
Mock
4 filters: a beveler, a framer, a mosaic creator and a target filter
MuRa's Seamless Filters
33 filters with different effects (mirror, warp, patterns)
Neology
23 filters with some pattern effects and two distortion
Noise, TruFilters and Decolorizer
- Download Doesn't work!!!
A simple noise filter, a bevel filter and a greyscale filter.
Oliver's Filters Vol 1. & 2
12 filters with color effects.
Ornamente Filters
7 filters with various effects
Pentacom
Filters
Pentacom.jp offers 11 free plugins created with Filter Factory (for Win/Mac)
called Rounded Corner, Garbage Collections, penta's "VR Filter2", color dot
and ToyCamera. Most of them create TV distortions.
Photo
Image
... is a collection of four simple Filter Factory plugins for retouching photos.
The collection consists of the Chrome, Enhance, Expose and Temperature plugins.
PIF, PIF
Edges, PIF Patterns
- Currently Down!!!
30 filters for creating textures and colorizing images
Procyn Filters
Some filters with simple color effects.
RCS Filter Pak 1.0 -
Currently Down!!!
22 filters for lens, noise and pattern effects
RipleEyer
an interlace TV effect.
Sabercat
16 pattern and convolver filters
Sean
Sedward's Filter Factory Plugins
... contain five effects. "Spherical Mould" which produces a sphere wraps
effect is the most interesting plugin in this collection. However, it does
not do any interpolation, so the effect is quite rough. The three Emboss filters
create simple gray, white and black emboss effects and the Light Gaussian
Blur plugin applies a blur effect with a small radius. The filters are available
as freeware and shareware versions. The shareware versions contain some controls
while the freeware versions apply the effect without showing a dialog.
Sloshifiers
... is a collection of 12 plugins, created with FilterMeister, with strange
negative and color effects.
Teph's Tricks
... is a collection of 15 simple filter plugins created with Filter Factory.
The SLIDE X/Y and OFFSET WRAP filters wrap an image vertically and/or horizontally.
The 12 other filters of this collection produce transparency effects according
to certain image parameters.
Tim's Filters -
Currently Down!!!
16 filters: a tile-making filter, 3 contour filters, 8 halftone filters, 2
woodcut filters, a drop shadow filter and an edge fade filter.
Timo Mann
"Tymoes Colorizer" colorizes your image or changes transparency and "Tymoes
Gridmaker" applies a black grid. "Gridmaker 2" (for Windows) is a slightly
enhanced version of the previous plugin for creating simple grid lines. "Big
Gridmaker" and "Dotorizer" (for Mac Classic) draw a grid and turn your image
into a dotted pattern. These filter plugins produce quite simple, but sometimes
useful effects.
Trond's Filters, Trons Filters II, Trons Patterns, Trons First
Over 70 filters that mostly create weird patterns.
UnPlugged
Over 60 filters with various effects. At the moment the plugins are not
downloadable directly on the website, but from ftp://ftp.vanderlee.com/pub/unplugged/
Visual Manipulation
Over 150 filters with very creative effects. Some of them are available in
the Filter
Factory Galleries.
Works Plugins
Several packages of thematic filter effects.
Xynthetic
- Currently Down!!!
A posterize filter
