Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 376
Location: Savar, Dhaka
Post subject: Best photoshop plug ins, free or paid
What you people think are the best photoshop plug ins available? Why are they best or useful? Where to download those plug ins? What plug ins you use most?
Plug ins plug ins plug ins. Photoshop plug ins.
Thu Aug 19, 04 10:00 am
dude Power User
Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 376
Location: Savar, Dhaka
Post subject: Best Photoshop plug ins
OK let me start then. I have used the KPT Power tools from corel little and I really liked it. It is very fun to use. It is easy too. But not free. I liked the KPT lightning very much. Easy to add a ray effect. The other tools that came bundled with it were:
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KPT® Fluid™ – treat your entire image as a fluid to create and animate a variety of distortions, including controlling the thickness of the liquid and the size and speed of the brush stroke
KPT® FraxFlame II™ – create stunning fractals such as crystal clouds, with an improved rendering engine and increased navigational control
KPT® Gel™ – use realistic 3D paint tools to synthesize photo-realistic materials, and apply lighting, reflection, refraction and transparency
KPT® Goo – smear, smudge, twirl, pinch or "finger-paint" an image to produce stunning liquid distortion effects or short animations
KPT® Ink Dropper™ – add drops of liquid to a surface to create everything from water spots to smoky swirls
KPT® Lightning™ – customize and create realistic lightning effects by controlling every aspect of the bolt and path, including its color, the number of forks, and attractor and generator points
KPT® Materializer™ – create dynamic surface textures using bump maps and advanced controls, or "bend" an image over the contours of a surface texture
KPT® Scatter™ – import a particle or grid of particles and scatter them over your original image to create complex patterns and textures. Control how the particles fall – in a grid, in spirals or at random – customize their density, size and opacity, and change the hue, luminance and saturation of their color
KPT® ShapeShifter™ – create limitless shapes and objects with refracting glass edges, 3D light sources on beveled metallic surfaces, curved and lit Web buttons, UI gadgets and text
Plus!
KPT® Blurrr™
KPT® Channel Surfing™
KPT® Equalizer™
KPT® FiberOptix™
KPT® Frax4D™
KPT® FraxPlorer™
KPT® Gradient Lab™
KPT® Hyper Tiling™
KPT® LensFlare™
KPT® Noize™
KPT® Projector™
KPT® Pyramid Paint™
KPT® RadWarp™
KPT® Reaction™
KPT® Turbulence™
Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 283
Location: Dhaka,Bangladesh
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Never go with any plugins cause they will decrease your immagination. Try with photoshop built-in layer style and lighting effects...and they are the worlds most powerfull tools ever. _________________ Just Fly With Your Dreams!!!
Digital Vision
Mon Aug 23, 04 11:39 am
dude Power User
Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 376
Location: Savar, Dhaka
Post subject: Should I use plug ins?
You are right hasnatme. But what about people like me who don't have much imagination but still wants to be a graphics artist? Besides, they sometimes give you short cut ways to do things too!
Mon Aug 23, 04 1:28 pm
hasnatme Moderator
Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 283
Location: Dhaka,Bangladesh
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If you wanna be a graphic artist then you should eat graphics, sleep graphics and anything with graphics....hahaha you think I'm funny...no man its the truth...And time doesn't matter. Just try to be a independence designer. You can take help with some great tutorials across the globe. _________________ Just Fly With Your Dreams!!!
Digital Vision
Tue Aug 24, 04 11:05 am
dude Power User
Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 376
Location: Savar, Dhaka
Post subject: Graphics works
That sounds like a full time job, if I want to be a graphics artist. Right now that is too much for me, on top of everything that I have to do anyway! I think, for now I will stick with my plug ins. May be, later I will try to spend all my days and nights dreaming about graphics. Is there any website where I can see your graphics works?
Tue Aug 24, 04 2:11 pm
hasnatme Moderator
Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 283
Location: Dhaka,Bangladesh
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Well I have no personal site yet...cause I had no experience to make website...But I have just started our company website....and only the interface you can visit here Digital Vision and I'm making my personal site too and ofcourse with my all 2D and 3D stuff. And I will must give the link here...till then you can watch out our company website..which is totally going to make by myself.
Thanks,
Hasnat Jamil. _________________ Just Fly With Your Dreams!!!
Digital Vision
Tue Aug 24, 04 2:22 pm
quantum Site Admin
Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Posts: 1048
Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh
Post subject: To or not to use plug ins for photoshop
I totally agree with Hasnat and also agree with Dude partly. Yes, it is of course, better if you try to create something from the scatch using the basic photoshop tools. It gives you flexibility. You have to explore and so you learn many new things while playing with the photoshop tools. It also keeps your options open so you don't end up with your graphics looking like something readymade, preset, and like so many others'.
On the other hand, there are some things that are just not worth going through all the trouble to create from the scratch. I greatly like the Lunar cell plug in from Flaming Pear. And I know that it'd take me days to create something even close to planets created with Lunar Cell in a minute. And it's just not worth it. IMO use plug ins at your own discertion. _________________
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I liked the KPT lightning very much. Easy to add a ray effect. The other tools that came bundled with it were:
I think, for now I will stick with my plug ins. May be, later I will try to spend all my days and nights dreaming about graphics. Is there any website where I can see your graphics works?
