Aug 20, 2013 Filters: adjustment gamma, auto levels, black white, blender, blur, brightest pixel, brightness, buzz, color adjustment, color edges, color emboss, contrast, custom. 3D Shadow 2.0 from Lokas Software. This is one of the many free Photoshop filters for adding 3D shadows to objects such as text and shapes. What sets it apart is its simplicity combined with the excellent results it generates. It includes sliders to adjust the shadow transparency, perspective, color, and more. Highpass Sharpen is an Adobe Photoshop plugin that introduces another method of sharpening using highpass frequencies. This method is usually used by professionals in production environments and it is not a widely known technique. The benefit, some professionals will say, is that it brings more control to the sharpening process.
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Download these programs to your computer:
- The IrfanView 32-bit plugins pack
Optional: You might prefer to download the 64-bit Irfanview, though some Photoshop plugins don't work with 64-bit Irfanview:
You'll also need some Photoshop plugins to experiment with, like namesuppressed's Softener 2.
Install IrfanView & the Plugins Pack
- If you haven't already installed Irfanview, do that now. Look for the file you downloaded named
iview4xx_setup.exe
and double click it to run it. - Find the Irfanview Plugins Pack installer, called
Irfanview_plugins_4xx_setup.exe
. Double click on it to run the installer.
Running IrfanView and setting up plugins
- Run the IrfanView program. Look on your desktop or Start Menu for the IrfanView icon and double click it:
- Open an image file (try a JPEG / .jpg file) by clicking on the File -> Open menu.
- Now press Ctrl-K on your keyboard to bring up the Adobe 8BF Filters window. You can do this by holding down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and tapping the K key. Or you can choose Image -> Adobe 8BF PlugIns -> Filter Dialog... from the menu. (“Adobe 8BF” is another name for “Photoshop plugins”.)
- This window shows all the plugins that are setup to work with IrfanView. So far we haven't setup any, so click the button labelled Add 8BF filters (Folder) to setup our first one.
- Choose a Photoshop Plugin filter you've installed (eg namesuppressed's Plaid Lite plugin) and find the folder where you installed it. Then click the OK button.
- If everything went to plan, you should now see the name of the plugin in the left of the window. If you want to run the plugin now, click on the plugin name (eg Plaid Lite, Softener 2), then click the Start Selected Filter button.
- All done! Next time you want to run a Photoshop plugin, just open an image, press Ctrl-K on the keyboard, click on the plugin name with the mouse, and click Start Selected Filter.
Highpass Sharpen is an Adobe Photoshop plugin that introduces another method of sharpening using highpass frequencies. This method is usually used by professionals in production environments and it is not a widely known technique. The benefit, some professionals will say, is that it brings more control to the sharpening process. Highpass sharpening is especially useful for photography thus making this filter quite popular among professional photographers and photo retouchers.
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Highpass Sharpen presents all the features one would come to expect from such a tool. A radius slider provides full control over the size of the highpass frequency while the intensity feature controls how dramatic the effect should be. The user can choose to display the working composite or just the highpass layer for precise modifications.
Adding an additional level of power is the ability to output the highpass layer in overlay mode or hardlight mode.
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Highpass Sharpen supports both 8 bits / channel and 16 bits / channel color modes for professional workflows.