Plugin adalah
software tambahan yang sifatnya menambah kegunaan software induknya. Software
induk yang saya bicarakan disini adalah Adobe Photoshop. Maka plugin yang akan
kita diskusikan disini berarti software tambahan yang menginduk pada Photoshop
dan memiliki kegunaan spesifik, biasanya memudahkan cara kerja kita dalam
mengedit sebuah foto atau paling tidak membuat kita lebih mudah mencapai efek
tertentu semisal membuat efek bokeh, hitam-putih atau frame yang indah. Kalau
anda suka mengutak-atik foto di Photoshop, sudah saatnya anda mengenal beberapa
plugin yang saya pilihkan disini.
Bokeh
Membuat efek bokeh langsung dari kamera memanglah tidak terlalu susah ( baca
pengertian bokeh dan tipsnya disini ), namun ada beberapa syarat yang
sebaiknya dipenuhi, antara lain anda sebaiknya menggunakan lensa dengan
kualitas yang lumayan bagus dan idealnya dikerjakan dengan kamera SLR. Namun
kalau anda ingin membuat efek bokeh yang indah tanpa harus membeli lensa mahal,
anda bisa sangat terbantu dengan plugin yang satu ini. Plugin bernama “Bokeh”
dari Alien SKin ini sangat gampang digunakan untuk menciptakan efek bokeh pada
foto anda. Bukan hanya itu, Bokeh juga bisa digunakan untuk membuat efek
tilt-shift pada foto anda. Jika anda jeli memilih foto yang akan dipakai untuk
membuat efek ini, anda akan memperoleh hasil yang fantastik. Anda bisa mendownload
demo plugin bokeh disini
Black
& White Studio (BWS)
Black & White Studio dari Power Retouche adalah plugin photoshop yang
sesuai namanya, memiliki kegunaan untuk mengkonversi foto warna menjadi foto
hitam putih yang sangat keren (baca tips
foto hitam putih disini). Foto hitam-putih yang dihasilkan pun bisa anda
variasi sesuai selera dan citarasa anda. Mau yang berkontras tinggi, silver
atau sephia. Atau anda ingin mengkreasi efek film jaman dulu? BWS relatif mudah
dipakai dan cukup cepat dijalankan, dan menjanjikan banyak variasi. Anda bisa mendownload versi demo BWS
disini
Portraiture
Membuat kulit mulus bebas jerawat, memutihkan dan menghilangkan kerutan
serta bintik di permukaan kulit…hmmm, kayak iklan kosmetik saja kan? Tapi
jangan salah, inilah beberapa kegunaan dari Imagenomic Portraiture. Plugin satu
ini terutama sangat cocok digunakan untuk pecinta foto jenis portrait (wajah)
dan foto kecantikan. Kalau anda menyewa fotografer profesional dan takjub
setelah melihat kulit anda jadi mulus dan bebas jerawat, kini andapun bisa
menirunya. Download versi
demo Imagenomic Portraiture disini
Backdrop
Designer
Tidak punya studio foto atau malas pergi ke studio foto? no problem! Anda
bisa membuat studio anda sendiri di komputer. Plugin ini berguna untuk membuat
background mirip dengan yang ada di studio foto. Anda tinggal berpose di
belakang tembok, edit foto anda di Photoshop dan jalankan Backdrop Designer..
jring! tembok anda akan disulap menjadi background indah sesuai pilihan anda. Download versi trial
Backdrop Designer disini
Photomatix
Pro
Anda ingin mendalami foto HDR (high dynamics range)? tanpa berkata panjang
lebar saya sarankan anda mencoba plugin satu ini (lebih jauh tentang HDR dan
tipsnya baca disini). Photomatix pro adalah pilihan para fotografer
profesional yang menggemari HDR. Photomatix pro bisa dijalankan di Photoshop
(Tone Mapping) maupun berdiri sendiri tanpa anda harus membuka Photoshop.
Download versi demo Photomatix
Pro disini
Topaz
Adjust
Topaz Adjust adalah plugin yang membuat foto anda tampak lain daripada yang
lain, kalau istilah bodohnya mungkin membuat foto lebih bisa menyedot perhatian
mata dan lebih hidup. Direkomendasikan oleh banyak fotografer kelas dunia,
plugin ini bia membuat foto anda yang tumpul tampak lebih berdimensi dan tajam.Anda bisa mencoba versi trial Topaz Adjust disini
Genuine
Fractals
Genuine fractals memberi solusi bagi anda yang ingin
memperbesar foto anda. Plugin ini memiliki fitur yang memungkinkan kita
mencetak foto yang sudah diperbesar sampai dengan 10 kali perbesaran. Kalau
anda selama ini memperoleh hasil print foto yang pecah-pecah, saatnya anda
mencoba plugin ini. Download versi
trial Genuine Fractals disini.
OnOne
Perfect Effects 3
OnOne Perfect Effects 3 adalah plugin bikinan OnOne Software, salah satu
pembuat plugin ternama. Mereka merilis versi gratis dari plugin mereka yang
sangat populer, PhotoTools. Anda bisa mengutak-atik foto anda dengan beragam
efek dan filter: cross process, cyanotype, sepia dan vintage. Kalau anda
menyukainya, silahkan di unduh disini.
Dreamy
Photo
Dreamy Photo adalah plugin yang bisa membuat foto anda memiliki aura mistis
seperti alam mimpi. Didalam plugin ini anda bisa menemukan setelan untuk
soft-glow, blurry zoom, soft focus dan sebagainya. Jika anda menyukai tampilan
foto diatas, kenapa anda tidak mendownloadnya
disini?
Photoshop
Edge FX 2.3
Photoshop
Edge FX adalah plugin yang dibuat oleh Sebastien Piconnier. Kegunaan utama
plugin ini adalah untuk memberi foto-foto anda frame yang unik. Plugin ini
memberi anda koleksi 60 macam frame yang bisa anda atur ulang sesuai selera.
Anda juga bisa memberi efek tambahaman macam Glow atau Drop Shadow. Kalau anda
tertarik untuk menambahi frame di foto-foto anda, download
disini.
Pixel
Bender
Pixel Bender
adalah plugin yang dikeluarkan Adobe sendiri, sang pembuat Photoshop. Plugin
ini bersifat eksperimental, kegunaan utamanya adalah anda bisa memelintir foto
anda seperti yang terlihat diatas, jeni pelintirannya bisa bermacam-macam. Anda
bisa mendownloadnya
disini. Oh ya, foto ini hanya kompatibel dengan Photoshop CS4 dan CS5
PhotoFrame
Free 2.4.5
PhotoFrame
4.5 Free adalah plugin gratisan keluaran dari OnOne juga. Berfungsi untuk
menambahkan frame-frame seperti halnya Photoshop Edge FX, namun memiliki titik
berat pada efek yang lain, semisal frame polaroid, film strip dan cat air. Anda
bisa mengkomninasikan tekstur dan border untuk menciptakan efek yang lebih
unik. Kalau tertarik, anda bisa mendownloadnya
disini.Untuk berlangganan artikel melalui email, klik disini. Facebooker? Jangan lupa kunjungi dan sukai facebook page Belajar Fotografi. Twitterer? ikuti update melalui twitter dengan menjadi follower Belajar Fotografi, @belfot.
How
to install Photoshop plug-ins?
Photoshop plug-ins are .8bf files. After
downloading a plug-in, simply place it in the presets>plug-ins folder of the
Photoshop's installation folder (creating a folder with a name defining the
plug-in & placing the plug-in files inside the folder will make it more
organized).Here they are:
AlphaWorks
– Transparency Effects

A free Photoshop plugin for easily removing black or white values and making the region transparent.
It provides 6 different filters to match any photo type.
ColourWorks
– Colour Modification

It has 20 effects to modify image colour values in several ways.
The plug-in can be used for digital-photo color correction or any other transformations.
EdgeWorks
– Cool Artistic Styles

It has 20 effects to create dramatic edge and colour modifications.
This Photoshop plugin is handy for photo transformations for a highly stylized look & creating interesting texture effects
ScreenWorks

Easily create screen/mesh patterns with 30 options.
In one step, you can add small detailed and repetitive texture overlay effects to areas of your image.
EmbossWorks

The plug-in has helps creating various quick and easy embossing styles with 30 effects. T
They are helpful when adding a sense of depth or relief to an otherwise flat image.
SwapShop
– Colour Exchange

Easily switch colour values in your images with 15 filters.
You can reach surreal effects by playing with the combinations.
MasterBlaster
– Maximum Colour Toning

Use intense colour into your images with 20 filters.
Ideal for adding dramatic impacts to your photos or work.
Mezzy
– Artistic Grain

15 effects to create simple grain and mezzo styles.
B/W
Conversion

A Photoshop black-white conversion plugin with powerful features.
Tones of every color can be managed. And there are ready to use popular presets, an option to simulate the effect of color lens & more.
Selective
Saturation

Sometimes using saturation may caouse some parts of the the images to be "over-saturated".
Using the plug-in, you can define a "saturation zone" and apply a saturation to only that area.
Local
Contrast Enhancement

This is used to bring out the details.
It simply increases the contrast between a pixel's value and the mean value of the adjacent pixels in a local area.
High
Pass Sharpening

This Photoshop plug-ing sharpens images with the high-pass method (high-pass is known as producing less halos).
Soft
Focus

Give a soft focus effect to images.
You can set:
- focus
softness
- overall
strength of the effect
- blending
mode of the overlayed blured image.
Lens
Correction

A plug-in for fixing barrel and pincushion distortions that are produced by most zoom camera lenses.
Contrast
Mask

It decreases the overall contrast of the image, helps bringing out details in highlights and shadows.
Gradient
Blur

This Photoshop filter helps drawing viewer's attention to specific point by simply bluring other parts.
Xpose

A plug-in to adjust exposure.
Easily adjust highlights and shadows & preview the results.
DepthDither

It is specially suitable to be used on images that will be displayed on LCD screens which may show color steps in a gradient effect.
virtualPhotographer

With over 50 presets, this amazing Photoshp plugin can auto-apply combinations of
- film grain
- color
modification
- B/W
- soft focus
- high
contrast & more..
AAA
Options

It provides 50 filter options & 16 blend modes.
Effects are specially useful to be used on frames.
AAA
Blur Options

A plug-ing providing Gaussian blur filter options (color blur & soft light).
Filter
Forge Freepack 1 – Metals

7 metal textures and effects including alien-looking or industrial metallic surfaces, rust or aluminum foil, and more.
Filter
Forge Freepack 2 – Photo Effects

7 photo enhancing effects.
Add sunny style, apply grunge look or color tints, age the image, and more to your photos.
Filter
Forge Freepack 3 – Frames

7 filters for creating frames to your photos.
Some of them are: a realistic painted wooden frame or a vignette, a classic elegant feel or a ragged harsh look, and more.
Camouflage

Create an army-look with Photoshop easily.
The plug-in enables you to control 8 color layers including old & new army colors.
Night-Vision

This Photoshop night vision filter can make any image like night-vision googles do.
Images can be transformed to:
- like they
are in a black-white or CCTV security camera
- an
infra-red look
Snowflakes

Control all aspects of snow like sizes, amount & more.
By playing with the colors, you can even make them look like confettis.
Snowscape

Decide which areas the snow should fall down on by making the rest of the image transparent, then start the plug-in, configure how much and where the snow should fall, and SnowScape does the rest
Outliner

Easily get the outlines of an image.
It picks out various edges making them more expressive.
Dreamy
Photo

Add a dreamy effect to images.
It gives a warm & soft feel. Some features are:
- Add Ghost
Contrasts to images
- Offset
Ghosting with Zoom angles and degrees
- Blend in
Transitions and Ghosting
Mosaic

A beautiful plug-in providing various results of mosaic looks. You have:
- photo-realistic
depth
- variable
tile size
- color
options
Iridescent

Amount of reflection, colour strength, smoothing can be played with to create a pearl-like effect.
Water
Ripples

With a 3D look & feel, the plug-in has several options to create realistic water ripple effects.
Jama
3D

Create corrugated and cellular like patterns from 2D images.
Making various bricks, herring bone textures or crumpled paper effects is very easy.
Lattice
Composer

A deformation plug-in for Photoshop.
It produces a variety of weave patterns, fabric textures, body art tattoos and skeleton simulations. with extraordinary 3D text effects.
Luce

Control the light in all aspects to create stunning effects.
Stereogram
Lab Filter

A plug-in for creating hidden image stereograms.
Mosaic
Toolkit

Add mosaic effects to images.
It has several mosaic styles like: squares, rings, balls, gears & more.
Cell size and contrast can be set as well as the ball glow & brightness.
Smart
Refinement Filter

This Photoshop plug-in has the following features:
- sharpness
- depth-of-field
(DOF) enhancement
- noise
reduction
Fur
2

It disperses a simple figure (a line, acircle..) over the image.
Kaleidoscope

This Photoshop kaleidoscope filter has 3 effects:
- Mirror
- Copy
- Blend
Sorting
Tiles

Image is cut in several blocks, sorting of colours is done and they are redistributed as patterns.
Thredgeholder

Easily detect edges of images.
Chalkaholic

This Photoshop sketch plugin is a compilation of chalk and charcoal type effects with artistic panache and flair.
3D
Shadow

Easily create different types of 3D shadows from any object.
All settings are present in a single window – transparency level, perspective, shadow color and position, X/Y/Z angles, and some others.
Photoshop
Plug-ins By Graham White

Graham White is presenting 2 filter sets with a total of 9 filters.
The filters are:
- Bleach
Bypass
- Blur
Threshold
- Dual
Threshold
- RGB to
Grayscale
- Blur Color
- Blur Custom
- Channel Noise
- Channel
Shift
- Plain
Gradient
Sinedots
2

This plug-in can help creating wavy effects. And, mostly, you'll be surprised with the random results you get.
Shear

With several distortions, get a shear effect.
Retro
Dots

Easily create retro dot grids based on selections. Simple yet effective.
Several
Free Photoshop Plug-ins

A set of free plug-ins like ornament, ghost, solidify & more..
Blots
2

With 3 modes: normal, camouflage & gradient, this plug-in is very ideal to create textures using blots.
Color
MegaMix

A plug-in to replace colors in Photoshop.
Simply select the source colors & the target to replace them.
Eraser
Genuine

It enables you to erase certain parts of images by:
- asking you
the color to delete
- asking you
the color to keep
Fine
Threshold

Rather than the standard threshold in Photoshop, this plug-in has anti-aliased & sharper results.
Flat
Median

The plug-in has few advantages over the regular median effect.
Flatness can be controlled, it is isotropic & effect can be applied both vertically and horizontally.
Icon
Plug-in For Photoshop

It becomes possible to import & export .ico files with Photoshop.
It supports multi-format icons, transparency and semi-transparency and allows making icons, which are compatible with Microsoft Windows XP and Vista.
The plug-in also supports non-standard icons of different sizes and color resolutions, including monochrome, 16 colors, 256 colors, 24-bit True Color, and 32-bit True Color with semi-transparency.
PhotoFreebies

A set of free Photoshop plug-ins to perform photo manipulations.
Plug-ins included are:
- B/W
- Desaturation
Gradient
- Histo Fix
- Remove
Transparency
- Sepia
- Luma
Negative
- Chroma
Negative
- RGB2YCC and
YCC2RGB
- RGB2HSL and
HSL2RGB
DeNoise
– Noise Reduction

This plug-in has 4 noise reduction algorithms:
- ow-pass
- bilateral
- adaptive
bilateral
- low
frequency.
Harmonix

Play with 10 harmonic frequencies of a line to create waveforms of any kind.
Greyscaler

With 3 sliders, every channel can be controlled & there are controls for contrast, brightness and depth.
Technicolor

To create a retro film effect, apply this filter which imitates the old 2-color Technicolor process.
Beautifier

A plug-in for softening & enriching images to make them pop.
You can create flattering soft-focus, high-key and infra-red simulation effects.
Bleach
Bypass

The bleach bypass technique is skipping the partial / complete bleaching stage during the processing of a colour film. This prevents the silver from being removed from the negative, and the result is a contrasty image with muted colours.
The plug-in makes it so easy to apply the effect.
Weaver

Creates a weave effect. An useful plug-in specially for pattern design.
SuperPNG

This Photoshop plugin is faster than Adobe's own PNG plug-in and saves considerably smaller PNGs.
xMeta

A set of 3 plug-ins for exporting metadata from Photoshop in raw binary form.
It can export:
- ICC
Profiles
- EXIF camera
data
- IPTC press
information
Julia
World

Julia 's curves are a family of mathematical curves (fractals) renowned for their beauties.
This plug-in is extremely simple : to track down an interesting curve, use the Julia control or press the random button (that's all !). Besides, it allows endless zooming, to customize colours, and to save settings.
Melt

Apply deformations on images with size, intensity, and aspect ratio of waves to get melting effects.
Projection

Using various perspective effects, you can tile images in infinite space (copy or mirror mode), or to repeat edges.
Posterizer

Add a poster-like effect to your images by playing with the luminosity and the hue
Autointerlace

Create interlace effects, just like a TV screen easily to create a techno look.
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