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.
[Standalone or Plug-in] 38 effects to enhance photos with dramatic color, shading and tints. Available as a stand-alone program or a plugin.
[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 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 may be used to colorize Black & White, Sepia, or IR (infrared) photos, or to color-correct ones with faded or inappropriate colours." [Stand-alone]
[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.
"Color-by-Example is a Photoshop compatible plug-in that allows the user to adjust colors in an image using another image as a template."
[Plug-in] "Add dramatic contrast to photos and hyper-emphasize detail."
[Plug-in] Offers a variety of filter collections for digital darkroom, color, and lighting special effects to stylize and enhance images. Add sunshine to photos, adjust the way light is cast within images, create cinematic day-for-night effects, and more.
[Standalone] Color black and white photos or change the colors in color photos.
[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."
[Plug-in] Create better black and white conversons with these filters that duplicate various film types.