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HyperTyle is a sophisticated filter plugin for generating texture, surface, paint, erosion, transparency, edge, frame, and shadow effects. These main effects are based on seamless textures, so there are unlimited variations possible. Additionally, there are also zoom, rotation, metal, chrome, pop-art, warp, mirror, blur, noise, blending, and other secondary effects that can be simultaneously applied to the seamless texture which is used for the main effect. So up to 20 different effects can be applied at the same time without leaving the plugin dialog. The download version of HyperTyle is delivered with 128 seamless photos, synthetic and painting textures. The CD version provides 1000+ seamless textures including 100 high-resolution ones. You can also use other textures in BMP format in HyperTyle, e.g. self-created textures, textures downloaded from the web, or textures from various image applications like Paint Shop Pro. The dialog of HyperTyle is skinned and consists of a large preview on the left side and a tab sheet control with all filter parameters on the right side. HyperTyle is fairly easy and intuitive to use. For beginners, there's even a Tutorial Mode that displays explanations and tips when the mouse pointer moves over a control. A preset feature lets you save effect settings and reuse them later. 90 useful preset files are already delivered with HyperTyle.

FocalBlade lets you sharpen your photos for screen display and print as well as produce great looking blur, soft focus, and glow effects. It is a Photoshop-compatible plugin that can be used in dozens of graphics applications including Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, PhotoImpact, Photo-Paint, Fireworks, and Photoshop Elements. It works with 8bit and 16bit RGB images. Overview FocalBlade features a range of automatic, semiautomatic, and manual tools for sharpening photos. It is very easy to use as it offers interactive explanations for each feature, incorporates modes for various tasks (including a Novice Mode), and detailed step-by-step instructions in the manual. FocalBlade lets you sharpen photos quickly and also batch process images in Cloak mode. Moreover, FocalBlade offers numerous options for creating blur, soft focus, and glow effects and for deblurring photos that are highly blurred. Sophisticated Algorithms FocalBlade's sophisticated algorithms let you sharpen images without ugly side-effects and give you a lot of control of the sharpening process. FocalBlade sharpens edges and surfaces in an image independently thereby allowing you to keep objects (e.g. sky, walls, skin, and other even surfaces) soft while the overall photo is still sharpened. Unlike other tools, FocalBlade doesn't produce halos at high radius settings and even provides sliders for suppressing the white and black parts of halos independently. Additionally, with FocalBlade you can set the pixel size of details that are sharpened. FocalBlade also lets you keep noise constant or even reduce it when sharpening a photo. Plenty of Tools FocalBlade provides three automatic sharpening options for achieving perfect sharpening results with different classes of photos. With Screen and Print buttons, you can make FocalBlade automatically sharpen for screen display or printing. There is also a semiautomatic sample area feature, which lets the user focus on an important image area and thereby apply the optim

Plugin Galaxy is a set of 20 plugins that include an incredible amount of over 120 basic effects. The product has often needed functions like transparency manipulation, blurring, texture and pattern generation, noise creation, mirroring, and warping. It also includes amazing metal, chrome, neon, pop art, glass, rainbow, sunshine, and star effects. Additionally, you can enhance, colorize, add edges to your photos, or even encrypt them. Last but not least, there is some effect that can be rarely found like feedback, grids, or zooming. The over 120 basic effects of Plugin Galaxy can be adapted with the help of sliders, checkboxes, color dialogs, color pickers, and preview coordinates. This way you have access to thousands of potential effects. Additionally, there are 4 interface types to match the different effect types. Plugin Galaxy works in over 20 different host applications including: * Adobe Photoshop (Version 4 or higher); * Adobe PageMaker (Version 6 or higher); * Adobe Illustrator (Version 7 and higher); * Adobe ImageReady; * CADlink SignLab (Version 5 and higher); * CiEBV Photoline (Version 5 or higher); * Corel Draw (Version 7 or higher); * Corel Photo House (Version 2 or higher); * Corel PhotoPaint (Version 7 & 8: only outside masks; Version 9: fully functional); * Corel Xara (Version 2 or higher); * Deneba Canvas (Version 6 or higher); * Fractal Design Detailer; * imageN (A great FREEWARE tool); * Jasc Paintshop Pro (Version 5 or higher); * Macromedia Freehand (Version 8 or higher); * Macromedia Fireworks (Version 2 or higher, but only within selections); * Megalux Ultimate Paint (Version 2 or higher); * MetaCreations Painter (Version 5 or higher); * Microfrontier Digital Darkroom (Version 1.2 or higher); * Micrografx Picture Publisher (Version 8 or higher); * Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000; * Right Hemisphere Deep Paint; * SPG Colorworks:WEB (Version 4 or higher); * Ulead PhotoImpact (Version 4 or higher, but only within selections); * Ulead PhotoExpress (Versi