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Color Effects and Color to Black & White Conversion Filters
Plugins and stand-alone software to alter or enhance the color, tone, contrast, and lighting of photos for creative effects and drama. Also includes photography filters to convert color images to black and white, tinting photos, and for simulating various film types.
5 Color Photo Effects with Flaming Pear Freebies
Explore how five of Flaming Pear's Freebies plugin filters can be used to change the appearance of a single photo to give a range of effects.
5 Mono Photo Effects with Flaming Pear Freebies
These are five suggestions for using Flaming Pear Freebies Photoshop plugins to create mono images.
Colour Surprise - Free Color Effects Software for Windows
Colour Surprise is a simple, free stand-alone application for Windows that can help you to apply unusual and unexpected color effects to your photos. Take a look at the effects you can achieve with Colour Surprise and consider some ways to use the resulting images.
Auto FX Mystical Tint Tone and Color (Win/Mac)
[Standalone or Plug-in] 38 effects to enhance photos with dramatic color, shading and tints. Available as a stand-alone program or a plugin.
Autochromatic (Win)
[Plug-in] Autochromatic creates colorized, greyscale, duotone and tritone style images. Use Autochromatic to change the foreground and background color of your images, or add color-tints from lavender to sepia.
B/W Styler (Win/Mac)
"B/W Styler is a plugin for B/W conversion, creating traditional B/W effects and styling B/W photos. BW Styler works in dozens of graphics applications including Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop Elements, PhotoPlus, Photo-Paint, IrfanView and PhotoImpact under Windows and MacOS X. It also runs natively in Photoshop CS3 on Intel-Macs. It supports 8bit and 16bit RGB images."
BlackMagic Image Colorizing Software (Win)
"BlackMagic may be used to colorize Black & White, Sepia, or IR (infrared) photos, or to color-correct ones with faded or inappropriate colours." [Stand-alone]
Hue and Cry (Win/Mac)
[Plug-in] "Create abstract regions of color: vivid or pallid, structured or diffuse, endless weird imagery is yours to use." $20 US. Demo download available.
Mr. Contrast (Win/Mac)
[Plug-in] "Add dramatic contrast to photos and hyper-emphasize detail."
Recolored (Win)
[Standalone] "Recolored is a software application that helps you with the otherwise difficult and time consuming task of colorizing black and white photos... To add color to a photo, all you have to do is add markings to the different regions of the image, indicating how it should be colorized. Then click the Colorize button and let the software do the rest."
Silver Oxide (Win/Mac)
[Plug-in] Create better black and white conversons with these filters that duplicate various film types.