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Free plugins for Photoshop & Illustrator...and other software

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Adobe Photoshop and Elements plugins In general, each plugin can be used with all versions of Photoshop (3.0-7.0, CS, CS2), under Mac OS X, 9 and earlier, and Windows. Should also work with other compatible programs such as Elements, AfterEffects, Premiere, PhotoDeluxe, Corel PhotoPaint, Paint Shop Pro, Fireworks, Painter, Photo Impact etc. (incomplete list). For information about using these and other Photoshop plugins with the GIMP (on Linux), see this page and issue 6 of fullcircle magazine.			Free and Open Source software is only possible in a world free of software patents.
ICO (Windows Icon) Format An easy way to create your web site's favourites/shortcut/bookmark icon in Photoshop. FREE, $5 donation suggested if you love the plugin. (MacHouse has a video tutorial on making a favicon.) More information Dansk Deutsch Español فارسی français italiano 日本語 Nederlands polski português pt-BR Pyccĸий svenska	Free download: Mac CS3+CS4 (PPC+Intel) Mac CS2 only (PPC) Mac PS 3.0-CS only Mac PS 3.0-CS only (incl. Vista format icons) 68K Mac	Free download: Windows (standard ICO/favicon) Windows (incl. Vista format icons) Windows 64-bit (CS4 only)	Get support GPL Source: Svn
ICOBundle utility Combines multiple ICO images (e.g. created by the above plugin) into a single ICO file. More info Also of interest, to Linux/UNIX/OS X users, may be the icoutils package (extract, convert icons etc).	Free download: MacOS 7/8/9/X 68K Mac	Free download: Windows CLI	Get support GPL Source: Svn
Filter Foundry A compatible and improved replacement for Adobe Filter Factory. Now fully scriptable! FREE, $5 donation suggested More info. Also see Filter Forge: seamless textures, visual effects, distortions, patterns, frames and more. Filter Forge has released 4 free plugins, comprising 7 filters each.	Free download: Mac CS3+CS4 (PPC+Intel) Mac CS2 only (PPC) Mac 3.0-CS (PPC) 68K Mac	Free download: Windows	Get support GPL Source: Svn
Photoshop file (PSD) Extract/Recover tool This plugin lets you grab image layers from any PSD/PSB file. It's faster than opening the whole PSD in Photoshop, if you just want a layer. Most importantly, it can usually recover image layers from corrupted PSD files that Photoshop won't open (if Photoshop opens with damage, this plugin recovers a more intact image). Beta version. FREE, $10 donation suggested if it saves your day/sanity/job.	Free download: Mac 3.0-7.0, CS CS2/Mac only CS3/Mac (PPC+Intel)	Free download: Windows	Get support GPL Source: Svn
Electric Image (EIAS) Format Image format plugin - also reads .EIZ ElectricImage Z-buffer depth files. For all versions of Photoshop including CS and CS2. Improve throughput of your .img files for use in Electric Image Animation System in excess of 100X! If you work in EIAS Animator you cannot do without this one. A typical benchmark saving 57MB file: Adobe plugin: 10 mins 53 secs This plugin: 6 seconds! FREE, $5 donation suggested. More info	Free download: Mac CS2/Mac CS3+4/Mac (PPC+Intel) 68K Mac	Free download: Windows 64-bit Windows (CS4 only) - untested by me!	Get support
QuickTime Component for Electric Image format Imports IMG files larger than 2GB.	Free download: MacOS X (PowerPC) New beta: MacOS X Universal (PPC/Intel) MacOS 7/8/9/Classic 68K Mac	Free download: Windows	Get support Source (not GPL): Svn
Paint Shop Pro Format Open and Save PSP 5-9 format files (including .pspimage, etc.) from Photoshop. (Has also proved useful in recovering image data from otherwise unopenable PSP files.) FREE, $5 donation suggested More info	Free download: Mac CS3/Mac only 68K Mac	Free download: Windows	Get support GPL Source: Svn
TIFFlib Format Plugin Open and Save TIFF files using the versatile libtiff library. This supports a wider variety of TIFF flavours and compression types than the built-in Photoshop TIFF format. Also adds the ability to save in a wider range of compression types, including G3 and G4 fax. More info	Free download: CS2/Mac only		Get support GPL Source: Svn
Life Filter Filter implementing Conway's Game of Life cellular automaton. More info	Free download: MacOS 7/8/9/X	Free download: Windows	Get support GPL Source: Svn
Count Colours Filter / Count Colors Counts distinct RGB colours in an image or selection. Also counts distinct values in single channels. Now works with both 8 and 16 bit images.	Free download: Mac CS3/4 (PPC+Intel) Mac CS2 (PowerPC only) MacOS 7/8/9/X 68K Mac	Free download: Windows Windows (CS4 64-bit)	Get support GPL Source: Svn
Histotext Filter Export image histogram counts as a text file.	Free download: MacOS 7/8/9/X CS3/Mac only 68K Mac	Free download: Windows	Get support GPL Source: Svn
12bits Filter Reduces colour depth of each channel of an image to 4 bits/16 values (4096 colours). Useful for cell phones and mobile devices. More info	Free download: MacOS X - CS3, CS4 (Universal PPC+Intel) MacOS X - CS2 (PPC) MacOS 7/8/9/X CS2/Mac only CS3, CS4/Mac 68K Mac	Free download: Windows	Get support GPL Source: Svn
5_6_5 Filter Reduces colour depth of channels to 5 bits red, 6 bits green, 5 bits blue (total 16 bits or 65536 colours). Applies error diffusion dither. Useful for cell phones and mobile devices. Also includes 5/5/5 variation (32768 colours).	Free download: MacOS 7/8/9/X Mac CS3 only	Free download: Windows	Get support GPL Source: Svn
SGI Format Reads and writes SGI (Irix) RGB image files, 8 or 16 bits/channel, in RLE or uncompressed formats. While Photoshop "Goodies" include this format, this plugin has fewer bugs, is faster, and works with all versions of Photoshop, on all platforms. More info	Free download: MacOS 7/8/9/X CS2/Mac only CS3/Mac only (PPC+Intel) 68K Mac	Free download: Windows 64-bit Windows (CS4 only)	Get support GPL Source: Svn
MacPaint Format Before Photoshop, there was MacPaint. This plugin is a small homage to the magic. Vive FatBits!	Free download: MacOS 7/8/9/X	Free download: Windows	Get support GPL Source: Svn
WBMP/WBM Format Type 0 uncompressed Wireless Bitmap format plugin. While Photoshop 7 includes this format, this plugin works with all versions of Photoshop, on all platforms.	Free download: MacOS 7/8/9/X 68K Mac	Free download: Windows	Get support GPL Source: Svn
8XI (TI-83 Plus) Format Reads (bitmap) images in 8XI format, as used by TI-83 Plus devices. Basic support for saving exists but I do not have documentation on the header fields (please help :)	Free download: MacOS 7/8/9/X	Free download: Windows	Get support GPL Source: Svn
DITABIS/DIBIS "micron" Format This file format is used by imaging equipment from Digital Biomedical Imaging Systems AG. (This plugin was commissioned by DITABIS and is released under the GPL with their permission.)	Free download: MacOS 7/8/9/X Mac CS3 only 68K Mac	Free download: Windows	Get support GPL Source: Svn
GBA Export (GameBoy Advance images) A specialised plugin for exporting images to GBA development tools. More info	Download demo: MacOS 7/8/9/X 68K Mac	Download demo: Windows	Contact author re source/licensing.
Netpbm (PBM, PGM, PPM, PNM) Formats Reads and writes Netpbm portable image formats; a.k.a. portable anymap, bit map (bitmap), gray map (graymap), or pixel map (pixmap).	Free download: MacOS 7/8/9/X MacOS X(CS2) 68K Mac	Free download: Windows	Get support GPL Source: Svn
Scramble Filter Break an image into square or rectangular blocks, and rearrange them randomly, like a sliding block puzzle. (For more sophisticated puzzles, such as jigsaws, see AV Bros. Puzzle Pro.) More info	Free download: MacOS 7/8/9/X CS2/Mac CS3, CS4/Mac	Free download: Windows	Get support GPL Source: Svn
Adobe Illustrator plugins
Radial Distort Filter A filter which performs a particular kind of artwork distortion. More info	Free download: Mac Ill 10/CS Mac Ill 7/8/9	Free download: Windows	Get support GPL Source: Svn
Pathlength Filter Computes the length (perimeter) of Illustrator paths. More info	Free download: Mac Ill 10/CS Mac Ill 7/8/9	Free download: Windows	Get support GPL Source: Svn
Patharea Filter Computes the area and length of Illustrator paths. Note that in CS4, filters appear under the Object* menu.*	Free download: Mac Ill CS2 Mac Ill 10/CS Mac Ill 7/8/9 Mac Ill CS2 Mac Ill CS3 Mac Ill CS4	Free download: Windows Ill 8, 9 Windows Ill 10 Windows Ill CS2,3,4	Get support GPL Source: Svn
Pathtotext Filter Exports a text file (tab delimited) of selected path coordinates. Note that in CS4, filters appear under the Object* menu.*	Free download: Mac Ill	Free download: Windows Ill 10 Windows Ill CS2,3,4	Get support GPL Source: Svn
Tooldemo An example of a plugin tool which creates a logarithmic graph of a simple function. More info	Free download: MacOS 7/8/9/X 68K Mac	Free download: Windows	Get support GPL Source: Svn
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Sine curves/waves in PostScript A simple but accurate PostScript method for plotting sine waves. Can be used directly by Illustrator and Photoshop. More info			Get support GPL Source: tar.gz
E-mailer friendly HTML chess set HTML chessboard and GIF chesspieces for the purpose of playing correspondence chess by e-mail. More info			gzipped tar archive (60KB).
Download MPW tool for downloading PostScript to network printers.	Download MPW tool for 68K Mac
TIFF Viewer A very basic, but fast! TIFF Viewer (Mac only) for antialiased browsing of multipage 1-bit TIFF files (e.g. faxes, scanned documents or manuals). More info	Free download: MacOS 7/8/9/X 68K Mac		(also requires libtiff and zlib to build) Get support GPL Source: Svn
PDP-8 and DG Nova assembler An assembler for two interesting architectures, written with the aid of lex and yacc (flex/bison). More info			Get support GPL Source: Svn
exprparser A simple lex/yacc (Flex/Bison) based expression parser and evaluator. More info			Get support GPL Source: Svn
psdparse Standalone code to parse Photoshop PSD format files, describe salient structure as text, and dump layers to PNG files (sample dump). Also may be effective in recovering damaged PSD files. Build under UNIX (Linux, OS X), MPW or a Windows environment such as Cygwin or MinGW.		Free download: Windows	Get support GPL Source: Svn
PDP-11 back-end for lcc PDP-11 target for the lcc retargetable ANSI C compiler. May be useful as a straightforward case study, see commentary: More info			Get support Source: Svn (machine description is GPL, lcc is not).
PIC/IDE Hardware/software interface Microchip PIC18 microcontrollers to ATA(PI)/IDE devices. More info			Get support GPL Source: Svn
Subversion/Bugzilla Script and post-commit hook to annotate Bugzilla bugs with Subversion commit messages. Partly inspired by Sean Foy's work, but greatly simplified for situations where Svn and Bz run on the same server. Versions provided for Bugzilla 2.18.x and 2.20.			Get support GPL Source: Svn
Subversion log XML to RSS XSLT stylesheet which transforms the output of `svn log --xml` (e.g. as produced by a post-commit hook) into RSS 2.0 XML.			Get support GPL Source: Svn
fifobot for Jabber Jabber bot which takes lines from a FIFO and announces them into group chat. Includes a complementary Subversion post-commit hook which posts one-line commit summaries to a FIFO.			Get support GPL Source: Svn

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