Free Photoshop tools and stuff

Download free professional photo editor wich support layers, macros, 100+ graphics formats, filters, effects, instruments.

You can easily download all brushes from our site:

You can find on our site this kind of brushes:
dragon brushes
trees brushes
girl brushes
hairy brushes
light brushes
flowers brushes

Download brushes here:

• download trees brushes
• download dragon brushes
• download girls brushes
• download light brushes
• download hairy brushes
• download flowers brushes

Free plugins for Photoshop from VIZROS
www.vizros.com
A set of plugins Vizros v.4.1.:
Book - simulates the effect overturns the book pages;
Box - will help put 3 different pictures on a three-dimensional parallepiped;
Curl - can obvorachivat image around a virtual cylindrical surface (fold back the corners):
Cylinder - help put 2 different pictures on a three-dimensional cylinder;
Fold - simulates folding (bend) in the picture in several places;
Lake - an interesting effect, creates a simulation of the water sector in selected areas of arbitrary shape;
Magnifier - a magnifying glass effect to the highlighted area of arbitrary shape;
Twist - can obvorachivat image around a virtual cylindrical surface (the effect of the tape).

A free plugin from Optic Verve Labs – Virtual Photographer
(for Photoshop from Adobe, Photoshop Elements from Adobe, Paint Shop Pro from Jasc Software)
It is a rather flexible tool for styling images:
film grain – grain sensitivity;
color modification - Overlay color filter;
B / W – conversion to black and white;
B / W tint – shades of gray;
soft focus – soft focus,diffusion, solarization , etc. – More than 50 customizable filters + more about the same can be downloaded separately.
Home Page www.optikvervelabs.com – download, help, samples.

Site with free ACTION `s for Photoshop from The Lights Right Studio
List of Action-sets, Action-Kit, that is, Each set contained a number of action `s of different steps:

TLR B & W Conversion / TLR B & W Toning / TLR Color Compensating (CC) / TLR Color Enhance / TLR Color Temperature (CT) / TLR Color Overlay / TLR Crop Tool Presets / TLR Cross-Processing TLR Diffuse Glows / TLR Digital Noise Reduction / TLR Digital Velvia / TLR Edge Effects / TLR Edge and Surface Masks / TLR Faux Infrared / TLR Image Resizer for Photoshop CS / TLR Image Resizer for Photoshop 7 / TLR Image Toner / TLR Marquee Tool Presets / TLR Photographic Filters / TLR Professional Mask Toolkit-java / TLR Professional Sharpening Toolkit-java / TLR Quick Selections / TLR Saturation Mask / TLR Sepia Tint / TLR Sharpening Toolkit / TLR Split Channels / TLR Split Toning

This collection action `s what it repeats, and some as much complements Virtual Photographer (removal of noise, sharpness, color temperature …). The slope again to the simulation of chemical. photoprocesses figures. Do not forget that some of them will work only in specific versions of Photoshop, so please read the instructions.
Home Page: www.thelightsrightstudio.com – download, online help, pdf-tutorial

Free photoshop?

Many users have heard about this famous program for professionals, Photoshop. Photoshop is not free and costs about $650. However, if you are not very complex tasks, you can use the free Photoshop analogs. In this post we will look at 5 programs in order of preference.
1. Active Pixels – free professional photo editor with large number of possiblities:
· Support near 110 graphic formats with large nomber of options (also multiframe ICO and animated GIF).
· Support Photoshop-compatible filters.
· Import/export layers in PSD-format (Photoshop).
· Simple and intuitive user interface.
· Multitasking.
· Filters support (now over 50 filters).
· Alpha-channel full support (transparency) for all formats.
· Layers support with 33 render modes.
· Over 10 algorithm of picture resize.
· Selection by magicwand, lasso.
· Different color correction functions.
· Auto color correction.
· Canvas rotate and transform.
· Fast work with big images (over 5 mPix).
· Brush, pencil, gradient, text and another instruments.
· Different additional functions – tile, crop.
· Color selector is more comfortable (HSB).
· Undo/redo without any limitations.
Active Pixels is the most large functionaly free photo editor, but it can work instable.
2. Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins. It features:
· Simple, intuitive, and innovative user interface
· Layers support
· Unlimited history
· Special Effects
· Powerful Tools (curve and shapes drawing)
Paint.NET requires Microsoft NET.framework. Paint NET work very stable, but require more powerful computer, because of framework.
3. Artweaver is a simple Freeware program for creative painting, i.e. Artweaver offers you all artistic effects which you need for your work.
You can create sketches from photos and experiment with a wide range of brushes. The brush simulation is thereby so realistic as possible.
Advantages of Artweaver
· Support of many different digital brushes e.g. chalk, charcoal, pencils…
· Standard image editing tools like gradient, crop, fill and selection tools.
· Transparency and Layers support.
· Effect filters like sharpen, blur, emboss and mosaic.
· Support for the most common file formats like AWD (Artweaver), BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, TGA, TIFF, PNG, and PSD.
· Pen Tablet support for a realistic feeling.
Artweavew is small and good, but have no possiblities, such as Active Pixels and Paint.NET
4. Gimp. Gimp works across several different platform (Linux, Mac, Windows, FreeBSD, Sun OpenSolaris) and is perhaps one of the best free alternatives out there so far. Gimp has a large user community, with great list of tutorials on the official sites. Possiblities are:
* Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc.
* Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
* Full alpha channel support
* Layers and channels
* Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
* Editable text layers
* Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
* Selection tools including rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy
* Foreground extraction tool
* Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
* Transformable paths, transformable selections.
* Advanced scripting capabilities (Scheme, Python, Perl)
* Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters
* Over 100 plug-ins already available
* Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format
* File formats supported include bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and many others
Gimp is very good, but it interface is non-standart and if you worked in Photoshop – you will not like it.
5. PhotoFiltre – It allows you to do simple or advanced adjustments to an image and apply a vast range of filters on it. It is simple and intuitive to use, and has an easy learning curve. Very simple photo editor. Not powerful as others.

Updated Photoshop… what it will please us? What’s new for our company is prepared for Adobe?

MASKS
The new panel «masks» contains many tools for the implementation of the mask option, it is possible to change the shading and density. Now, to change existing or create your own masks easily.
Correction
Enhanced user-friendly palette «Correction» offers the possibility of adjusting the tone and color photography, new tools will give you the opportunity to perform in full.
AUTOMATION overlay images
Using the «Automatic overlay layers» (Auto-Blend Layers), you can create a coherent picture of a large number of similar photos. With this function you can correct the shortcomings of photos, it also allows you to flatten and tone handle shade. As a result, obtain the necessary image that will please the eye.
CREATING 3D graphics
Now the latest development Photoshop allows you to convert 2-dimensional image in 3-dimensional without any restrictions! This is achieved by simple means of giving the volume and depth of text segments, the transformation gradient, transport of 3-dimensional format. With the help of new technology «Rendering» get excellent image quality.
IMAGE PROCESSING OF RAW
The new module is Camera Raw 5 will make RAW image format for better quality. This module supports 180 models of cameras, a correction, transfer photos to the expansion of JPEG and TIFF.
CHANGES IN PROPERTIES OF 3D
Now the interface is optimized, it is not hindering the windows. 3-dimensional image can not only edit, but to move. In addition, you can change the flow of light, to improve
quality photos, change the camera review and input, using the movement of 3-dimensional axes.
Smooth Zoom and scroll PICTURES
Finally we preyti from one workspace to another is easy and simple: new opportunities scroll and zoom. Now, even at maximum zoom, it remains clear. New option «Pixel grid» very convenient.
EXPEDITED TURN
Only one mouse click, and your canvas is rotated by the appropriate angle for viewing. You do not want to bend the neck to the details of drawing!
AUTOALIGNMENT LAYERS
Now avtovyravnivanie layers is optimized, the image will become more realistic due to module layers auto adjustment. Change, process and convert the layers as you wish! For fans of photos now have the opportunity to align the spherical image.
ZOOMING NEW PHOTOS
Using the unique function of scaling can reduce the time spent on correction and image processing. You can edit the details without changing the scale of the main image. Just one click – a long laborious work on retouching easier to maximum.
PERFECT DEPTH OF FIELD
Now you can combine in a few different images (with different focus, colors and exposure). As a result, the depth of field is increased, and the color and tone will remain unchanged.
NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR PRINTING
When printing quality photos is not changed due to updating of image processing. Adobe Company held tremendous collaborative work with leading manufacturers of printers. Now you can view the area, which is beyond the scope and opportunity to process color.
INNOVATIONS EDITING AND PROCESSING ANIMATION GRAPHICS
Process animation graphics is now easier – with the help of «hot keys» keyboard.
There is also a simple (function auto sinchronisation) the possibility of synchronizing video from video sites.
INTEGRATION PROGRAM ADOBE
Now, Photoshop Extended, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Flash Professional and Adobe After Effects interact among themselves and with other Adobe-applications.
IMPROVED TECHNOLOGY LIGHTROOM
Module Adobe Photoshop Lightroom offers new opportunities for the realization of panoramic imaging. But this module is sold separately. Now combine the photos in the panorama that simple!
IMPROVED TECHNOLOGY ADJUSTING COLOR
The new Photoshop is now updated basic color correction tools – «sponge», «clarifier» and «zatemnitel», which are used to select and adjust the color tint.
NEW WORK FILES
Now convenient to work with multiple open files: you choose the type of work – a mosaic location of photographs or «window-tabs».
ADDITIONAL ADOBE FHOTOSHOP OPTION – CREATIVE SUITE 4 EXTENDED
With the new option is Adobe Flash, you can easily perform repetitive tasks.
Community Adobe Community Help is always to help, ready to give the correct advice.

Now the system requirements for Adobe Photoshop CS4.
For users of Windows:
- The processor of 1.8 GHz and above;
- 1GB of free hard disk space;
- 512MB of RAM (1GB is better);
- A screen monitor – at least 1024×768.
Some options GPU acceleration in the new Photoshop need the support of graphics:
OpenGL2.0, Shader Model3.0, QuickTime7.2.
Version of Photoshop CS4 64-bits will first be given to users «Window».
If you want to try out all the benefits and dignity of the new Adobe Photoshop CS4, it is better to allocate 4GB RAM
For users of Macintosh:

- Multi-processor Intel or PowerPC-G5;
- Operating system MacOS X v10.4.11-10.5.4
- A screen display – 1024×768;
- 512MB of RAM (1GB is better);
- 2 GB of free hard disk space.
Some options GPU acceleration in the new Photoshop need the support of graphics:
OpenGL2.0, Shader Model3.0, QuickTime7.2.