Download free plugins and filters for Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Photo-Paint, and other plugin-compatible image editing software. Plug-ins and filters can be used to create special effects, simplify complex tasks, and increase productivity in your graphics software.
"The 14 effects available in PhotoTools 2 Lite range from reproducing classic photographic effects like Bleach Bypass and Cross Process, to reproducing film stock such as Kodachrome and Velvia, to modern effects including automatic skin smoothing."
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 & white photographic effects by manipulating color, film speed, film type, and effects.
Pro Canvas enhances and replaces the standard Canvas Size command in Photoshop 5.5 and up.
WallPampered is a plug-in to change your desktop wallpaper from within Photoshop. Distributed as Honorware. No nags or time limits, but the author requests $5 if you like and use the software.
Featured Download - This free software lets you create, edit and remap panoramic scenes.
Free plug-in to create beveled edges on buttons.
[plugin] A free texture and pattern generator.
Free plugin to remove red eyes from digital photos.
Analizes image, splits it into a set of similar areas and simplifes the colors and edges between them. Creates a wide range of 'painterly' artistic effects.
Complex feedback image processing filters for producing wild effects and organic textures. Freeware for ArtiFactor and shareware for Kinetics Lab.
Free filters - Mosaic, Honeycomb, and Rainbow.
Autointerlace automatically creates the interlace effect you see on television screens. Freeware.
"The freeware Camouflage plug-in is a tool for generating all kinds of camouflage textures ranging from authentic WW2 army camouflage to animal camouflage patterns."
A set of six charityware plug-ins for Macintosh: Adjust Saturation, Create B/W, Kwick Mask, Modulate Color, Rotate Color, Variable Blur.
AlphaWorks, ColourWorks, EdgeWorks, ScreenWorks, EmbossWorks, SwapShop, and MasterBlaster. For use with compatible host applications, such as Adobe Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Gimp, Ultimate Paint and Adobe Premiere. Click the freeware link.
Three Filters: Sinedot Shader creates abstract patterns; Icon & Cursor Format Plug-in allows you to load and save Windows cursor and icon files; Retrodots creates polka-dot effects. Click Photoshop from the main page to get to the filters.
Dreamy Photo is a free sampler from the DreamSuite Series product line. Dreamy Photo gives images a soft romantic feel. The plug-in is free but requires a serial number to activate.
Works just like the eliminate white filter, but for images with a black background. You can also get eliminate white here.
This free filter peels your image off a white background and places it on a new layer.
The world-famous collections of free filters.
Filter Farm is "an environment where filters live their own life. They grow from genetic information. They exchange this information to guarantee rich diversity in future generations."
Several free filters from the makers of BladePro - Ornament, ChromaSolarize, Tachyon, Ghost, Solidify, Vitriol, RGB/HSL, TransLine , Make Cube Tile.
"FlickrShop is a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop that allows you to upload images to Flickr photo sharing website directly from Adobe Photoshop."
"GML Matting is a cutout tool to help separate object from background. Interface of the plugin is similar to that of Photoshop Extract utility while the algorithm used usually produces better result. For Paint Shop Pro users it can become the essential matting plugin since Paint Shop Pro has no built-in matte extraction functionality." Freeware for Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro.
Archive of over 1500 free filters with previews. Also information on other useful graphics tools.
"Generate smooth anti-aliased harmonic frequency waveforms which may consist of up to 10 harmonic frequencies."
55 filters, available in Mac and PC versions.
Read and write to the JPEG 2000 file format from Photoshop with this ftee plug-in.
21 free filters with examples.
10 filters for various image editing effects.
"Create ice and some liquid fx when editing images. Tested with Photoshop, Paint shop Pro, Photobrush. May work with other editors."
15 plug-in filters for producing basic mezzo and grain effects.
Several freeware filters including Tone, Copies, Perspective Tiling, Cloud, Pole Transform, and Seamless.
23 free filters for Mac and PC: checkered tiling, shadow caster, sinus waves, tiling, radial sun, a different sin, mosaic, more.
10 filters for creating abstract patterns.
You can use the NightVision plug-in to create completely realistic army night-goggle type images complete with true overlighting, scaled noise, realistic feedback and anti-aliassed interlacing.
These plug-in filters create various basic borders around images, especially useful for creating Web buttons.
"Created on public demand... Many image editing programs lack 'add noise' and 'diffuse' filtering capabilities. If you suffer from this - just plug this freeware module in to fix it."
This free plug-in filter allows you to add painterly effects to images at random or by adjusting controls.
Free plug-ins with a photography emphasis. Currently they include: B/W Conversion, Local Contrast Enhancement, Soft Focus, Contrast Mask, and Gradient Blur. Windows only.
Several Photoshop plug-in filters offered as postcardware: Grids (for Mac & PC), Polygons (for Mac & PC), Selection Outliner and Un-Featherer (for Mac & PC), Color Counter (PC only), Gamma Filter (PC only), and HTML Color Tags (PC only).
One-click bevels and textures. Free registration code by request.
Flips 'n Rolls includes 19 color swapping filters, Noise Generator includes 6 filters for adding noise, and Pixie Dust is a pre-release library of several plug-ins.
Similar to the popular "Eliminate White" filter, but written in assembly language so it uses less memory. Sets transparency according to the whiteness of the pixels in your image.
TabbedText Format - Custom Filter - Adaptive Equalization - Enter Magnification
Most of these are free, the first two cost $10: Advanced Color Corrector, 3d Spheres, Color Bar Generator, Scanlines, Grid Generator, Grain Generator, Diffuse Glow, Sperical Mapping Corrector, Lens Distortion Corrector, Diffuse, Halftone, Pixelate, Tiler, Pinch, Squarify, Evaluate, Portable PixMap Import/Export, and Superformula.
Three free filters written especially for Paint Shop Pro: False Colour 3, Flutter, and Lead Emboss.
"Alternative channel mixer for Photoshop and programs that are compatible with Photoshop plugins. The freeware version gives you only the basic functionality of a channel mixer, but the auto-balance function is built-in."
"The main purpose of both 'Convolution shaman' and 'Sorting shaman' filters is to give the user suitable tools for general image editing procedures like blur, sharpen, edge detection and sharpening, despeckle and many others." Free light version and shareware full version.
A nice collection of free filters, several that can be used to make seamless tiles. Nifty mouse rollovers let you see exactly what each filter does.
SmartCurves is a plug in to add curve adjustment capabilities to any graphics program which can accept Photoshop plugins. Freeware
With the Snowflakes plug-in you can create any type of snow you can imagine, ranging from mild and fluffy snowfall to heavy hailstorms and anything in between. Freeware.
"SnowScape can be used for adding layers of snow, dirt, goo and similar effects to all your (semi-)transparent images. You have control over the thickness of the snow layer, the color, the distribution of the snow and some other stuff."
"SuperPNG is a free Adobe Photoshop plug-in for using PNG ("ping") files. It is faster than Adobe's own PNG plug-in and saves considerably smaller PNGs."
Several free filters for offset wraps, color based transparency, and other effects.
A free plug-in filter providing cross-shaped smudge effects with many options.
Topaz DeJPEG is a free Photoshop plug-in that removes JPEG compression effects in images. It also contains a Sharpen function.
A free for personal use version of Ultra-Sharpen Pro. Doesn't offer the same amount of control that Ultra-Sharpen Pro does, but uses a set of defaults that have been found to work on a wide range of images. For Photoshop and Photoshop Elements only.
Free filters for colors, effects, shapes and tools.
Browse and download about 40 free filters from Xero.
"xMeta is a simple set of three plug-ins for exporting metadata from Photoshop in raw binary form. It can export ICC Profiles, EXIF camera data, and IPTC press information."
"The effects produced with Xylograph plugin vary from simple woodcut texture to a hand-drawn halftone screen found it many engravings."
