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File format extension plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop

File format extension plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop

Photoshop is definitely one of the best raster image editors and it probably supports all image types you’ll need for your work. So if someone says, that Photoshop need a plug-in, because it doesn’t support some of the needed type it may sound like heresy. But, don’t hurry. There is still a chance, that you’ll find an image with a weird extension, or you’ll need to save image with particular settings…and suddenly find out, that Photoshop doesn’t support them. (By the way, if you think that there are few image file formats, take a look at http://www.openwith.org/categories/images) Moreover, what will you do, if you need to apply some of the very-very-photoshop-like features to the image, which has nothing in common with raster, like SVG or DXF for example.

There are tons of plug-ins for Photoshop around the web. Here I’d like to present you some of format extension plug-ins, which I found useful and some, that just add additional possibilities to work with common Photoshop supported types.

Note: I was using Adobe Photoshop CS4, so some of good plug-ins for CS3 and earlier versions of Creative Suite, which doesn’t support CS4, are not listed, because I couldn’t try them.

SVG Kit for Adobe Creative Suite (http://svg.scand.com) is a plug-in, which adds support of SVG images to Adobe Photoshop. Adobe’s support of SVG files format is limited, so it is possible to work with SVG directly only in Adobe Illustrator. SVG Kit gives opportunity to open SVG image like any other supported one. In addition, SVG image is automatically decomposed to couple of layers, so you can work with them separetely.

System requirements: Windows and Mac OS X 32 and 64 bit. Adobe Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5

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Price: 99$ per licence. 30 days full-functional trial available.

Electric Image (EIAS) Format (http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/info/eiformat.html) is image format plug-in, which allows to open files, created by Electric Image Animation System (http://www.eitechnologygroup.com/). Also reads .EIZ ElectricImage Z-buffer depth files. According to the developers tests, works 100 times faster then the Adobe’s plug-in.

System requirements: Windows and Mac OS. Almost all versions of Photoshop, depending on the type of operating system installed.

Price: Free.

PNGOUT Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop (http://www.ardfry.com/png-plugin/) allows to work with some unsupported types of PNG images (like PNG8 files with transperency), and gives additional save options (like, for example adding or removing some kind of image chunk).

System requirements: Windows and Mac OS X. Adobe Photoshop CS to CS5.

Price: 29,95$

ProEXR (http://www.fnordware.com/ProEXR/) greatly expands on Photoshop’s standard openEXR plug-in functionality. In addition allows to save layered EXR files, chose from different compression options, when saving and do some other things.

System requirements: Windows and Mac OS. Photoshop CS3 or higher.

Price: 95$ . 15 days full-functional trial available.

Sibcode Icon plugin for Photoshop (http://www.sibcode.com/icon-plugin/), gives you all necessary tools for creating .ico images. It works with multi-format icons, transparency and semi-transparency etc. You can both export and import .ico image and use this plug-in with some other software like Elements, AfterEffects, Premiere etc.

System requirements: Windows only. Photoshop CS or higher.

Price: Free.

Blow Up 2 (http://www.alienskin.com/blowup/index.aspx). Not sure, whether it is correct to place it here, but the plug-in helps to smooth over one of the worst problems of raster files: quality loss on resizing. By temporary converting image to vector representation, it makes “zoomed in” parts look better, so can be useful for preparing hard copy of the image.

System requirements: Windows and Mac Os X. Photoshop CS2-CS5.

Price: 149-249$

SiteGrinder 2 (http://www.medialab.com/sitegrinder3/) “Web designers and developers, don’t go by”. The plug-in, which builds web sites from multilayer Photoshop documents. The plug-in creates CSS , controls and other staff from the PSD multilayer image.

System requirements: Windows and Mac Os X. Photoshop 6.x-CS4.

Price: 129-349$

SuperPNG (http://www.fnordware.com/superpng/) is a free Adobe Photoshop plug-in for using PNG (“ping”) files. Compared to native Adobe’s PNG plug-in it saves considerably smaller PNGs. Note, that I couldn’t download it from the main site, so you can find it with the help of search engines.

System requirements: Windows and Mac Os. Photoshop 5.5 or higher.

Price: Free.

j2k (http://www.fnordware.com/j2k/) Nice and small plug-in, that allows to open/save JPEG 2000 files. Compared to standard JPERG its comrade offers better quality and smaller file size. You’ll also be able to find several similar plug-ins if you want.

System requirements: Windows and Mac Os. Photoshop 5.5 or higher.

Price:Free.

 

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Digital File Preparation Guide

Digital File Preparation Guide

Use Page Layout Programs such as InDesign or Quark
• Create your document in the exact size of the final trimmed piece. For example, if you are creating a letter size multiple-page document with facing pages, your page size would be 8.5×11, not 11×17.
• Use the master page to place common items such as page numbers in the same location on multiple pages.
• Create multiple-page documents in reader’s spreads.
• Extend images that bleed off the document page by an 1/8” (standard).
• Delete unused colors in the color palette from EPS and page layout files.
• Images that cross-over facing pages should be divided into two separate picture boxes and aligned on their respective pages.
• Scale bitmap images no more than 10% up or down from their original size. A drastic enlargement will cause loss of detail and a drastic reduction may extend imaging time and delay your job.
• Link images in your Illustrator and FreeHand files. Do not embed them.

Tip: Remember to include any special Quark Xtensions you may have used to create your document.
Tip: Creating files in drawing programs such as Illustrator, FreeHand or Corel Draw can sometimes incur additional charges by printers.

Saving images
• Save all PhotoShop files in the CMYK color mode, which includes any nested or embedded files.
• Submit PhotoShop files only in the TIFF or EPS formats (DCS is an EPS).
• Delete any unused alpha channels or clipping paths in flattened PhotoShop   files.
• Delete unused colors in the color palette from Illustrator, FreeHand.
• Turn off JPEG, LZW, or ZIP compression in your PhotoShop files.

There are two types of images: Vector and Bitmap. Vector images consist of lines and curves you create in programs like Illustrator or Freehand.They are called vectors because they can be described in mathematical terms such as size, length and position .Vector graphics are device-independent, meaning they can be scaled up or down with no loss in detail.

Bitmap images are created in painting programs such as PhotoShop. Bitmaps (also called, raster images) are created on a grid with small squares called, pixels. Each pixel has a location and color value assigned to it. These images are device-dependent, meaning they have a fixed number of pixels for a given area. Images that look jagged or bitmapped do not have a sufficient amount of pixel information or resolution. A high resolution image will have more pixels per grid, which allows for greater detail and color transitions.

Tip:
A formula for determining resolution (dpi) is: 1.5 x the line screen = resolution. Many still use the old formula of 2x the line screen, but there is no visible loss of detail at this lower dpi and it saves valuable disk space.

Image types
Bitmap (in Bitmap mode) Typically black & white images (no grays) used for text or logos. These should be saved at 600 dpi, as a TIFF and scaled to 100% of the intended size.The background can be set to
none.Use your page layout program to colorize the image.

Bitmap (in Grayscale or CMYK mode) These are black & white or color images.They should be saved at 225 dpi, as a TIFF or EPS and scaled to 100% of the intended size. Printers prefer TIFFs if there are no clipping

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paths, because EPSs tend to have a slightly larger file size.The background should be set to white or a color in QuarkXpress.

Tip: If you are creating an image with a clipping path it must be saved as an EPS and the tolerance should be set between 2 and 4, with 2 being a tighter setting for irregular shapes.

Bitmap (in duotone mode) These images can be monotones, duotones, tritones or quadtones and must be saved as an EPS.

Tip:
Use channel 1 for the darkest color and if you are using black make sure it says Black in the window, not Process Black (your page layout program will see it as a different color). Set the screen angles in your page layout program not in PhotoShop. Scott Lithographing can select them for you upon request.

Vector Can be saved at any size and scaled up or down in your page layout program (we suggest 100% for a better preview) and they can only be saved as an EPS.

Tip: Prevent gradient banding: Set the output resolution to 2540.

Color Modes
You may color correct in RGB or LAB, but save images that will be imported into you page layout program in CMYK mode. Importing in RGB will prevent the image from being output properly. RGB is for images that will only be viewed on a monitor.

Tip: Remember to calibrate your monitor frequently and delete any alpha channels to reduce the file size.

Color Selection
Spot (PMS) colors must use the same name in all image files. For instance, if you are using PMS 185 CV in a file and PMS 185 CVU in another, your page layout program will see them as two separate colors. Please indicate if a PMS color is to be spot or built out of process colors.

Tip: Keep in mind that some spot colors do not reproduce satisfactorily when built out of process.

Tip: If you are using metallic inks it is a good idea to aqueous coat or varnish the sheet to prevent smearing.

Fonts
• Be sure to include the printer and screen font for each Type 1 font.
• Check the font usage window to ensure you have included all your fonts.
• If you’ve used fonts in EPS artwork: Either convert the text to paths or   include the font(s).

Basic types of fonts: PostScript, TrueType, OpenType.
Postscript comes in Type 1,2, or 3 (Type 1 is the most popular).You will have two fonts; the screen font and the printer font.The screen font is for
displaying the font on your screen (the icon shows a single “A”).The printer font is used by printers and imagesetters to create the type mathematically.

TrueType contains both the screen and printer fonts in one file (the icon shows three “A”s).

OpenType fonts are gaining in popularity due to their cross-platform ability and flexibility. They are essentially a Type 1 or TrueType font in a TrueType shell, so you will have only one file per font weight or style (i.e., bold, italics, small caps, etc…).

Tip: Use current and brand name fonts whenever possible (ie.Adobe, Bitstream). Keep a compressed version of your font library and replace any fonts that cause printing problems.

Tip: Use the actual weight of the typeface, such as Helvetica Bold.Do not use menu styling.

Trapping
Printers normally handle trapping, so discuss any concerns you have. If you are comfortable doing your own, you should relay that to your printer. Although, it may make you liable for any trapping errors.

Spelling
As a rule, printers do not check the spelling of documents because they are not privy to the jargon, product names, or special pronouns of other industries. Spell-check and proof-read your document carefully. It’s also an excellent idea to have two other individuals proof-read the text before submittal.

PC Files
Printers were primarily Mac-based, but virtually all of them now accept PC files created in QuarkXpress, Pagemaker, InDesign, PhotoShop, Illustrator, Freehand, and Corel Draw EPS files. It’s a good idea to check with your printer before submitting files created with Microsoft products, such as MS Word or Publisher.

Collecting Files
I strongly suggest using the Collect for Output option when using QuarkXpress. Collect all the elements of your job (images, fonts and final files) and place them into one of three folders: Finals, Support, and Fonts.Do not send files that are not pertinent to the job. Please be aware that Quark will list the fonts on the collect for output report, but it will not collect them for you.

Tip: I strongly recommend using FlightCheck or your page layout program’s “preflight” feature prior to submitting your files.

Media
Printers accept just about any media today, and many have ftp sites that can save you travel time.Your printer should have a list of acceptable media.

Archiving
Many printers archive your work for the purpose of rerunning it, but do not count on it! Be sure you have a back-up copy of your project. I suggest a regular archiving procedure to ensure you have your work in the future. Personally, I use a digital tape system with Retrospect, and I keep a full catalog outside the studio in the event of fire or other loss.

FINAL CHECK LIST:
• All electronic files, support images and fonts on disk
• All photos, transparencies, or art to be scanned
• Any special instructions
• A set of color proofs or lasers
• A set each of b&w laser composites/separations
• A mock-up (if applicable)
• A previously printed sample (if applicable)

About the Author

Derald Schultz is the founder and principal of Mediarail Design, Inc. A design firm based in Atlanta, Georgia specializing in graphic design, web design, and commercial printing services. Mr. Schultz holds degrees in Printing & Publishing, and Visual Communications. He worked within the design and printing communities for over 25 years before launching his own firm. Mediarail Design serves a wide variety clients across the country.

© 2006-2008 Derald Schultz, Mediarail Design, Inc.


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Q&A: Anyone could help me convert my clipart to vector file?

Question by Lisa: Anyone could help me convert my clipart to vector file?
I have a lots of clip art and I am looking for someone to convert my clipart to vector file. So anyone could help me convert my clipart to vector file?

Best answer:

Answer by Maggie
Yes, we can convert your clipart to vector file with high quality but reasonable price. Please have a look our website for more information.

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How can i make Adobe Reader display the first page of .PDF when previewing a file in windows explorer?

Question by Fellknight: How can i make Adobe Reader display the first page of .PDF when previewing a file in windows explorer?
When i run Adobe Reader, click open and browse to where i stash my PDFs it will create a thumbnail of the file instead of displaying the file symbol. How can i make this previews permanent?. Where does windows saves this preview images?

Best answer:

Answer by The Awaken
It has to do with the “view” option in windows explorer. If it is thumbnail/image it will show a picture of the first page.

If it is a list/details it’ll show the icon.

Also, have you tried Adobe Digital Editions?

It’s free, and I think it’s way cooler than adobe reader.

Go check it out.

Give your answer to this question below!

Can I export my entire Adobe Illustrator CS3 file with layers to Adobe Fireworks CS3 or Adobe Photoshop CS3?

Question by sexyextacy74: Can I export my entire Adobe Illustrator CS3 file with layers to Adobe Fireworks CS3 or Adobe Photoshop CS3?
I made a website w/adobe illstrator cs3. How can I export the enitie file (images and layers) without losing anything. I tried to simply open the Illustrator file with fireworks, but some things are not showing up the same sizes as they were in illustrator cs3.

Can someone please help me. I PROMISE I will give you 10 points for best answer.

Best answer:

Answer by kaiy2k
For web graphics, you need a gif, jpeg or png formatted image.

You can’t export a vector based file(illustrator) into a raster file (photoshop) and hold the same level of quality. You can’t preserve Illustrator layers going into photoshop. I’m unfamiliar with Fireworks, but I suspect that is true for it as well.

Try saving out the file as in PDF format, then opening in Photoshop. It will still raster to a lower quality resolution, but perhaps you can hold the majority of the look and feel of your design this way. Remember, you will have to get the design to about 72dpi at final size.

If you can work with layers and transparency in Fireworks, then the workaround might be to export out your layers as separate files, and rebuild your layering in Fireworks.

Give your answer to this question below!

How to make an animated GIF from an MKV file

-Visit www.scriptic.net for more tutorials -Make sure you have annotations ON when viewing this tutorial- Programs used: (All of them are FREE) VirtualDub: www.virtualdub.org VirtualDubMod (“ALL INCLUSIVE” version): sourceforge.net AviSynth 2.5: avisynth.org CCCP: www.cccp-project.net (you probably already had the cccp to play MKVs in the first place =P) Notes: -Not only will this method work for MKV files, but also mp4 and avi. -The intermediate step of extracting to a file sequence (an uncompressed avi will work too, btwi) is only necessary for mkv or mp4 files. Background Info: For a long while I have wanted to know how to make animated GIFs from my favorite MKV-formatted shows. A quick google search will reveal that there is no *easy* way to go about it. Sure, there are some of pre-packaged “converters” out there, but they lack MKV support as well as customizability. Not to mention cost and spyware issues. The method I demonstrate has none of these problems, and the programs used are freeware. The solution is VirtualDub. It is by far the best, free video processing tool out there. Coupled with AMVapp (an avisynth + ffdshow codec bundle), it’s power is almost limitless.
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File formats of graphics designs – A quick lesson in Graphic file formats

File formats of graphics designs – A quick lesson in Graphic file formats

There are two different types of file formats – bitmap and vector drawing. Bitmaps is the most basic of the formats  with each image made up of individual pixels.  This format is most often used with photographs and images that contain subtle shading.

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 There is however one problem with bitmap images, scaling up the image.  This is because by scaling up  the individual pixels become more pronounced, leading to a jagged appearance. There is the ability to improve this using a technique called anti-alias which acts to smooth the graphic, however this still will result in a jagged appearance as the image is scaled up once more.  This again can be improved through increasing the image resolution, however this causes the problem of making the file larger and therefore slower to load.

Programs that produce such files are Adobe Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro and Corel Photo Paint, with file formats including BMP, GIF , JPEG, JPG, PNG, PICT (Macintosh), PCX, TIFF and PSD. The most popular out of these formats for web pages are Gif and JPEG, the former because of it ability to compress files and therefore speed up loading time, the JPEG because it allows a full range of colours.
 

Vector images differ because they are made up of paths. This makes them much smoother and clearer as the image I scaled up and is what true-type fonts use to ensure that they lose no quality with changes in size or resolution. It is for this reason that vector drawings are used for page layout / type  / line art and illustration.

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Programs that produce these types of files are Macromedia Freehand, Deneba’s Canvas and Abode Illustrator, the file formats include .ai, .cnv, .cdr and .fh8 .

The EPS format is a file type that allows a graphic application that can’t read the file types above and is a format that is likely to be most requested for illustration and line art because of the ability to scale the work with no lose of detail.

Hopefully this makes the scary world of graphic file formats a bit clearer and if your graphic designer is of any quality then as soon as you mention a format they should know exactly what you’re talking about and will be very impressed if you do too!

 

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How to repair PDF file of Adobe Reader?

How to repair PDF file of Adobe Reader?

Let us consider Recovery Toolbox for PDF for the process of pdfrecovery and make sure that it is a wise choice in the domain of infosecurity. Many users often deal with pdf files, but we are not going to provide the description of Acrobat Reader and its supported extensions. This time we are going to describe possible issues that happen with pdf files. Frankly speaking, the causes of data corruption are always the same and the service of recover pdf provides an easy way to restore affected files after the damage of Acrobat Reader documents. Let us try the service of repair pdf files and look what happens during the parsing of pdf files. This tool can be installed under all versions of Microsoft Windows operating system, the service of pdf recovery is so easy that users may proceed with the fix pdf by getting free version of Recovery Toolbox for PDF. You should not worry that the size of pdf fixer is so small, the service of repair pdf file was simplified as much as possible and you will never have issues with the interface of repair pdf solution, try to open Recovery Toolbox for PDF right after its installation, the instructions of pdf repair can be skipped. No doubts that you will be impressed by the interface of pdf fix, just open Recovery Toolbox for PDF and make sure that it is as easy as we say. The process of repair pdf files does not have any particularities, just select the source document of Acrobat Reader format, press Analyze and wait till the end of pdf recovery. Product page: http://www.recoverytoolbox.com/pdf.html Screenshot: http://www.recoverytoolbox.com/img/screenshot_rt_pdf_01big.gif Download Link: http://www.recoverytoolbox.com/download/RecoveryToolboxForPDFInstall.exe Buy page: http://www.recoverytoolbox.com/buy_pdf.html

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Preflight for Adobe Creative Suite 5 Desktop Publishing File Formats with the New FlightCheck Professional v6.75 from Markzware!

Preflight for Adobe Creative Suite 5 Desktop Publishing File Formats with the New FlightCheck Professional v6.75 from Markzware!

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Preflight Support with FlightCheck v6.75

 

Would an airplane pilot not do a preflight check before take-off? Of course not. In similar fashion, graphic designers, layout artisists and prepress operators should also be preflighting their DTP page layout documents before processing for print or even online advertising use.

Thus it is with great pleasure that we learn of Markzware’s new release; FlightCheck Professional v6.75 for Macintosh! This stand-alone app will now preflight CS5 Adobe Creative Suite 5 file formats such as InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and associated image types and of course Acrobat PDF documents. This quality assurance tool can check other desktop publishing layouts, such as QuarkXPress and EPS files as well and is a must-have for any serious graphic arts player.

David Steinberg, technical support and systems specialist at Intrigue Design said,

“It builds confidence and integrity to know that the files we are sending to our
vendor and clients were checked in FlightCheck before going out the door.
It’s the standard in the industry for a reason.”

 

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Desktop Publishing File Formats and all lower versions of CS (CS4, CS3, etc) can now be fully preflighted with Markzware’s new FlightCheck Professional v6.75.

Quality in print is very important. Unlike on the Internet, where you can quickly edit and fix design problems like color mode, typography positioning or missing images, a printed document is set in concrete. By using affordable tools like FlightCheck, you can guarantee that your color brochures, business cards and booklets will output correctly to ink on paper the first time.

You can read the full press release announcing this powerful preflight tool from Markzware here:

Markzware Announces Upgrade for FlightCheck With Adobe CS5 Support

 

 

David Dilling is the European manager for Markzware Inc, a Santa Ana, CA (USA) based software developer. Specializing in patented prelfighting (quality assurance), as well as DTP document conversion, file recovery and search tools and technology for the worldwide graphic design, layout, publishing, prepress and printing industries.


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File format extension plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop

File format extension plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop

Photoshop is definitely one of the best raster image editors and it probably supports all image types you’ll need for your work. So if someone says, that Photoshop need a plug-in, because it doesn’t support some of the needed type it may sound like heresy. But, don’t hurry. There is still a chance, that you’ll find an image with a weird extension, or you’ll need to save image with particular settings…and suddenly find out, that Photoshop doesn’t support them. (By the way, if you think that there are few image file formats, take a look at http://www.openwith.org/categories/images) Moreover, what will you do, if you need to apply some of the very-very-photoshop-like features to the image, which has nothing in common with raster, like SVG or DXF for example.

There are tons of plug-ins for Photoshop around the web. Here I’d like to present you some of format extension plug-ins, which I found useful and some, that just add additional possibilities to work with common Photoshop supported types.

Note: I was using Adobe Photoshop CS4, so some of good plug-ins for CS3 and earlier versions of Creative Suite, which doesn’t support CS4, are not listed, because I couldn’t try them.

SVG Kit for Adobe Creative Suite (http://svg.scand.com) is a plug-in, which adds support of SVG images to Adobe Photoshop. Adobe’s support of SVG files format is limited, so it is possible to work with SVG directly only in Adobe Illustrator. SVG Kit gives opportunity to open SVG image like any other supported one. In addition, SVG image is automatically decomposed to couple of layers, so you can work with them separetely.

System requirements: Windows and Mac OS X 32 and 64 bit. Adobe Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5

Price: 99$ per licence. 30 days full-functional trial available.

Electric Image (EIAS) Format (http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/info/eiformat.html) is image format plug-in, which allows to open files, created by Electric Image Animation System (http://www.eitechnologygroup.com/). Also reads .EIZ ElectricImage Z-buffer depth files. According to the developers tests, works 100 times faster then the Adobe’s plug-in.

System requirements: Windows and Mac OS. Almost all versions of Photoshop, depending on the type of operating system installed.

Price: Free.

PNGOUT Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop (http://www.ardfry.com/png-plugin/) allows to work with some unsupported types of PNG images (like PNG8 files with transperency), and gives additional save options (like, for example adding or removing some kind of image chunk).

System requirements: Windows and Mac OS X. Adobe Photoshop CS to CS5.

Price: 29,95$

ProEXR (http://www.fnordware.com/ProEXR/) greatly expands on Photoshop’s standard openEXR plug-in functionality. In addition allows to save layered EXR files, chose from different compression options, when saving and do some other things.

System requirements: Windows and Mac OS. Photoshop CS3 or higher.

Price: 95$ . 15 days full-functional trial available.

Sibcode Icon plugin for Photoshop (http://www.sibcode.com/icon-plugin/), gives you all necessary tools for creating .ico images. It works with multi-format icons, transparency and semi-transparency etc. You can both export and import .ico image and use this plug-in with some other software like Elements, AfterEffects, Premiere etc.

System requirements: Windows only. Photoshop CS or higher.

Price: Free.

Blow Up 2 (http://www.alienskin.com/blowup/index.aspx). Not sure, whether it is correct to place it here, but the plug-in helps to smooth over one of the worst problems of raster files: quality loss on resizing. By temporary converting image to vector representation, it makes “zoomed in” parts look better, so can be useful for preparing hard copy of the image.

System requirements: Windows and Mac Os X. Photoshop CS2-CS5.

Price: 149-249$

SiteGrinder 2 (http://www.medialab.com/sitegrinder3/) “Web designers and developers, don’t go by”. The plug-in, which builds web sites from multilayer Photoshop documents. The plug-in creates CSS , controls and other staff from the PSD multilayer image.

System requirements: Windows and Mac Os X. Photoshop 6.x-CS4.

Price: 129-349$

SuperPNG (http://www.fnordware.com/superpng/) is a free Adobe Photoshop plug-in for using PNG (“ping”) files. Compared to native Adobe’s PNG plug-in it saves considerably smaller PNGs. Note, that I couldn’t download it from the main site, so you can find it with the help of search engines.

System requirements: Windows and Mac Os. Photoshop 5.5 or higher.

Price: Free.

j2k (http://www.fnordware.com/j2k/) Nice and small plug-in, that allows to open/save JPEG 2000 files. Compared to standard JPERG its comrade offers better quality and smaller file size. You’ll also be able to find several similar plug-ins if you want.

System requirements: Windows and Mac Os. Photoshop 5.5 or higher.

Price:Free.

 

Software developer, interested in SVG, design and graphics


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