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Alien Skin Blow Up 2 Image Enlargement Plugin
Alien Skin Blow Up 2 can enlarge your images in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements with better results and with more functionality than competing products. The interface is straightforward and easy to use, but you might have a hard time justifying the cost against the printed results unless you do a large volume of extreme enlargements.

Alien Skin Snap Art Artistic Effects Plug-In (Win/Mac)
Alien Skin Snap Art is a collection of ten filters that can give your photos the artistic styling of colored pencil, Impasto, Pointillism, pen and ink, pencil sketch, pastels, comics, watercolor, oil painting, and pop art.

Alien Skin Splat! Plug-in
Guide summary and rating of Alien Skin's Splat!, a collection of 6 content-powered plug-in filters for creating frames, textures, edge effects, borders, mosaics, and patterns.

Alien Skin Exposure 2 Photography Plug-In
Alien Skin Exposure 2 is a plug-in designed to accurately simulate the look and feel of film in your digital photos. Exposure comes with a number of presets to imitate the appearance of Velvia, Kodachrome, Ektachrome, GAF 500, TRI-X, Ilford and many more film types.

Eye Candy 5: Impact
With ten special effects filters and countless customization options, Eye Candy 5: Impact gives you an infinite variety of visual effects to add to your projects. Includes special effects filters for generating metal surfaces, bevels, glass, plastic, shiny and brushed metallics, mirrored chrome, 3D extrusions, light rays, glows, motion trails, cast and perspective shadows, reflections, stars, gears, and other shapes.

Eye Candy 5: Textures
Eye Candy 5: Textures is the next generation of special effects plug-in filters from Alien Skin. With ten texture filters and countless customization options, Eye Candy 5: Textures gives you an infinite variety of unique, seamless textures for your projects.

Eye Candy 5: Nature
With ten nature filters and countless customization options, Eye Candy 5: Nature gives you an infinite variety of particle effects and natural phenomena to add to your projects. Includes special effects filters for generating coronas, fire, water effects (drips, drops, icicles, ripples), snow, smoke, rust, blurs, and lighting effects.

virtualPhotographer Plug-in from optikVerve Labs
virtualPhotographer is a fun and easy plug-in that helps you add drama and artistic effects to your photos. The free software lets you experiment with a wide variety of color and black and white photographic effects by manipulating color, film speed, film type, and effects.

Jasc Virtual Painter Art Effects Plug-in
An overview and summary of Virtual Painter, a collection of 12 plug-in effects for turning photos into paintings and stylized art work

AV Bros. Puzzle Pro 2.0
AV Bros. Puzzle Pro 2.0 offers many customizable options for adding jigsaw puzzle effects to your photos and images.

AV Bros. Page Curl 2.0
AV Bros. Page Curl 2.0 offers many customizable options for adding page curl and fold effects to your photos and images.