Free Photoshop filters...some useful link

[carlo taradel]

Some of the best and free 8bf filter are not very famous their links could be hard to find: here some of my favourites
http://www.simpelfilter.de
this webside was only german, NOW it also in english, you could find 3 very good filter, with very good HOW TO and very accurate tecnical info
http://www.clatfelter.net/8bf/plugin.html
Even harder to find , he recently updated and improved his plugins

The following 2 instead are quite famous sides with good stuff
http://www.mehdiplugins.com
http://www.cybia.co.uk/
Maybe those informations could be useful also for the french user of this forum,if somebody could make a french translation of this message and post in the french plugin section of this forum i suppose he will make somebody happy
If you enjoy those info let me know, i will add some other link (only the most useful and harder to find with free stuff or only time limited shareware,,cybia and mehdi were exception,they both deserve it)

[FrançoisL]

Thank you for these links, but we have lots and lots of links and users are a bit lost

[Tom]

Thanks for these links, i have found a new one to turn on an image in pseudo Infra Red effect.
I was searching about something like that from a couple of month and it matches exactly like i wished : vegetation becomes quite diaphanous as it works normaly with an optical IR filter, an it keeps a good contrast level.

Have a look at the site of Joseph Levy, who use this technic :

http://www.pbase.com/catson/plantation_infrared

I had report the link of cybia on the french part of forum. The others are already well known by the 8BF fans.

Do you know the site of Xero ? I recommand you Clarity and Porcelain.

http://www.xero-graphics.co.uk/freeware.htm

[carlo taradel]

http://www.reindeergraphics.com
here to find a very good "local equalization" filter (the best, as far i know) and other free filter (select edges , wide istogram ,custom filtre,and some more).
There are part of their commercial packages...Fovea pro is for me the most interisting but is really expensive,the good new is that is possible a 21 day try out
(no link for FP4 evaluation copy,you need to ask for it by e mail..instead there is a link to download & try their "artistic/photographic" plugin ,optipix)
It is supposed to be used for "scientific work" but it gives a lot of very useful tools and much more chance of fine tuning then "artistic filtres"

[carlo taradel]

"adaptive equalization" is the name of the free filter, there is also "local equalization" but is not free(it's inside FOVEA pro)...Btw the effect is quite similar