Photoshop

Digital GEM is a Photoshop compatible plug-in designed to isolate and manage noise and grain. Whether your digital images are from a film scanner, flatbed, digital camera or CD, Digital GEM is ideal for reducing visible noise/grain in highlight and shadow areas, without sacrificing image detail. Digital GEM also has additional controls for soft focus effects and advanced sharpening.

Licence: Demo.
Online: http://www.asf.com/products/plugins/gem/pluginGEM.asp
Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/NT/XP.
Requires: Photoshop 5.

Install instructions

Windows 98/Me		Windows NT/2000		Windows XP

Photoshop has an extensive implementation of keyboard shortcuts; however, not all commands have associated key shorts. This action set extends Photoshop's keyboard assignment by providing an additional three dozen shortcuts to such frequently used commands as Crop, Stroke, Image Size, Canvas Size and many more.

Licence: Freeware.
Online: http://user.fundy.net/morris/redirect.html?photoshop2.shtml
Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/NT/XP, Mac OS, OS X.
Requires: Photoshop 6.

Install instructions: Copy file into your Photoshop Actions folder (e.g. C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop 7.0\Presets\Photoshop Actions\). Then, restart Photoshop and choose the action set from the Actions palette menu.

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Keyboard Shortcuts (or hotkeys as they are sometimes called) are keystrokes used to invoke a command that might otherwise be accessed from a menu or an interface component. Not only are hotkeys typically faster to use, they sometimes provide you with functionality that is otherwise not available. This chart contains all of Photoshop 7's keyboard shortcuts and may be printed out and laminated as a double-sided reference.

Licence: Freeware.
Online: http://user.fundy.net/morris/redirect.html?photoshop1.shtml
Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/NT/XP, Mac OS, OS X.
Requires: Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.

Install instructions

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PSD2FLA is a plug-in that allows you to export your layered Photoshop documents as editable Flash 5 FLA files. PSD2FLA preserves Photoshop layer effects, layer positions, layer names and provides optional hidden layer removal.

Licence: Demo.
Online: http://www.medialab.com/psd2fla/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/NT/XP, Mac OS.
Requires: Photoshop 4.

Install instructions

Windows				Mac OS

Xenofex 2 is a collection of 14 effects that allows you to simulate natural phenomena such as lightning and clouds; distortions such as Flag, Television and Rip Open; and photo transformations such as jigsaw puzzles, constellations and intricate mosaics.

Licence: Demo.
Online: http://www.alienskin.com/xx2/xx2_main.html
Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP, Mac OS, OS X.
Requires: Photoshop 6.

Install instructions

Windows				Mac OS