>> Filter Forge Freepack 3 - Free Photoshop Plugins

+ Filter Forge, Inc. today released Filter Forge Freepack 3 - Frames, and announced a 20% discount for its flagship product, Filter Forge. The theme of the third Filter Forge freepack is frames -- the plugin comprises seven effect filters, each capable of framing any photo in a creative way. For example, Painting Frame generates realistic wooden frames with paint flaking off; Halftone Frame will frame an image with a pattern of dots of varying size; Simple Frame gives photos a classic elegant feel; Grunge Frame makes a photo look ragged and edgy; and Film Frame produces a black film-like vignette. Over the course of the year 2008, Filter Forge, Inc. plans to release four more Filter Forge freepacks, each centered around a different theme. The freepacks are based on the technology used in the company's flagship product, Filter Forge, an innovative Photoshop plugin allowing users to create their own filters in a visual editor. All Filter Forge freepacks are available for download at the company website: www.filterforge.com/download/.

Download Free Photoshop Brushes*

+ CGIndia, the Graphics magazine has published a handpicked List of Free Photoshop Brushes - the "crème de la crème" of photoshop brushes. Brushes are the most commonly used tool in Photoshop and you can create some amazing effects by using these custom brushes. The List features 15+ free Photoshop brushes resource sites, featuring the best photoshop Brush sets in diffrent categories. The Brushes sets includes; Abstract Vector set, urban photoshop brushes, Skylines brushes set, Tasty Tattoo Photoshop Brushes, Botched Ornaments, Grunge style Brushes - Scratches, Artifacts, Cracks, Crispy Cracks - Grunge PS Brush Set and many more!

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Filter Forge Announces Free Photoshop Plugins

+ Filter Forge, Inc. announced series of free Photoshop plugins and the availability of the first plugin in the series, "Filter Forge Freepack 1 - Metals", which generates photorealistic metal textures and effects.Over the course of the coming year, Filter Forge, Inc. plans to release seven free Photoshop plugins named Filter Forge Freepacks, with each plugin centered around a different theme. The freepacks are based on the technology used in the company's flagship product, Filter Forge, an innovative Photoshop plugin allowing users to create their own filters in a visual editor. Each freepack will be capable of generating seamlessly-tiled textures with professional-grade anti-aliasing, and will take full advantage of modern dual-core processors.
The theme of the first Filter Forge freepack is metals -- the plugin comprises seven filters that produce realistic metal textures and effects. Alien Metal produces a sci-fi texture of an alien-looking metallic surface; Brushed Metal generates a texture of brushed aluminum; Foil produces a texture of crumpled aluminum foil; Diamond Plate creates a texture of an industrial diamond plate floor; Metal Panels generates a metal plating texture; Metalizer produces a smooth metallic surface based on the brightness of the source image; and Rust renders patches of corrosion over the darker areas of the source image. All textures generated by the plugin are seamlessly tiled and can be immediately used as a web background or a game texture.
The free plugin is available for download at the company website: www.filterforge.com/download. Registration is not required. The plugin currently works under Windows only, the OS X version for both Intel and PowerPC processors is in development.

Microsoft HD Photo Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop

+ A file format plug-in to add HD Photo open/save support to Adobe® Photoshop® software. HD Photo offers compression with up to twice the efficiency of JPEG, with fewer damaging artifacts, resulting in higher-quality images that are one-half the file size. In addition, HD Photo offers increased image fidelity, preserving the entire original image content and enabling higher-quality exposure and color adjustments in the image. This new format offers the ability to decode only the information needed for any resolution or region, or the option to manipulate the image as compressed data.
This is the Windows BETA release of the HD Photo file format plug-in forAdobe® Photoshop® software with an updated EXPIRATION Date. It supports a wide range of pixel formats (including high dynamic range, wide gamut formats) and numerous advanced HD Photo features.This BETA plug-in is designed for use with the CS2 or CS3 versions of Adobe Photoshop software running under Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows Vista. Any other use is not supported. Because this is a Beta release, we recommend you use careful judgment before using this version of the plug-in for any production work. This Beta version will expire after August 30, 2007.
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Free Vectors Download

+ Download a basket full of Vector arts, free of cost from Vecteezy.com. This site indexes free vectors in many formats such as adobe illustrator's .ai, CorelDraw’s .cdr, Etc. and made by designer from all over the world :)
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Adobe Magazine

+ Adobe Magazine reinvented and is back in its latest avtar after after shedding off its old skin as the magazine formaly knowen as Proxy Magazine. The New and totally revamped Adobe Magazine, which comes in .PDF format now promises to be more inspriational and informative for Creative Professionals. Subscribe to this free, online quarterly, and discover fresh insight and tutorials from the wide world of visual communications. You'll see work that's breaking new ground, get an insider's perspective on how it was created, and find new ideas and tools to enhance your own projects.

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Pog's Free Photoshop Plugins

+ some free photoshop plugins up for grab by courtesy of Bryan Veloso, who has created these useful plugins. Mono Renditionizer - a channel mixer with a few twists. Variable Blurrinator - Its compare the lightness of the original image with the lightness of a blur. Depending on the difference, apply more or less of this blur to the output image. Lab Overlayer - a simple plugin which overlays transparency over the original image. These plugins works with any Windows application capable of hosting Photoshop-compatible plugins and for now plugin only support 8-bit RGBA images.

Pog's PS Plugins