I present to you a collection of all the latest graphic filters and plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop from company Alien Skin Software. I excluded only those that no longer have the support and further development of this company as irrelevant. Described in the article Photoshop plugins will be useful for both beginners and professional users, including photographers. With them, you can easily and efficiently process or decorate your images.
The collection includes the following plugins and filters for Photoshop CS3-6:
- blow up
- bokeh
- exposure
- Eye candy
- Image Doctor
- snap art
blow up
So, the first plugin for Photoshop from Alien Skin Software is designed to scale images while maintaining the highest possible image quality. Plugin for Photoshop Blow Up does not form sharp borders, does not create pixelation when increasing the size. Unlike similar scaling solutions, it can enlarge images up to 3600% with no artifacts, ladders or streaks.
Blow Up is capable of working in CMYK, RGB, Lab, Grayscale, and Duotone color systems, coping with the processing of files that include several layers (without forced registration), and also supports work with 16- and 32-bit images, including RAW and HDR. In addition to the above features of the plug-in for Photoshop, Blow Up has the following features:
- Controlling the resulting image sharpness
- Restoring the quality of JPEG files
- Batch processing multiple files
- A large number of built-in presets for the best result
- Ability to work with large images (up to 300 thousand pixels on one side).
bokeh
This plugin is more suitable for professional designers, but its simplicity makes it easy for beginners to work. If you do not want to spend money on expensive lenses, then with the help of the Bokeh plugin you can achieve an excellent blur effect by focusing a selected object on the main scene or drawing attention to certain details in a photo. Also this plugin for Photoshop will help to add a depth of field effect to the image, make a vignette or highlight the main object for you in another accessible way. The peculiarity of this add-on is that it accurately mimics the blur effect, which is really obtained only with the help of lenses. If you want to set the focus of a certain area on the photo, then this plugin for photoshop irreplaceable. During photo processing, you can adjust the background blur, set the impact diameter, depth, hardness, aperture value, lens focal length and photography distance. Considering that the plug-in changes some of these parameters during the post-process, you have the opportunity to compensate for some of the shortcomings of digital cameras. Photographers will especially benefit from blur effect presets, a lens simulator, adding grain, spherical aberrations, and photometric flare, which simulates the effects of shooting against a light source. The plugin works fine in Adobe Photoshop CS5-6 32-64 bit.
exposure
This add-on for Photoshop is well suited for true connoisseurs of photography and will allow you to bring various effects to your photos: imitation of a frame from a feature film or simulation of shooting with an analog camera. The program gives you the ability to change the exposure of a photo and recreate the features characteristic of films from different manufacturers: the bright colors of Velvia, the rich blacks of Kodachrome or the sensitivity of Ektachrome.
Plugin for Photoshop Exposure has a large number of presets with imitation of various film features. Selected effects, such as graininess, may not be applied to the entire image, but only to shadows, highlights, or midtones.
Films of different manufacturers and brands of one of them have different technical characteristics and features. Some of them capture fine details in dark areas more clearly, others have excellent color range but lose their properties in extremely bright/dark shots. Enthusiasts can always achieve interesting results.
Eye candy
Plugin for Adobe Photoshop is a collection of 30 filters with 1000 presets and 1500 different settings for implementing beautiful and realistic effects on photos in Adobe Photoshop. The filters of the Eye Candy plugin are divided into 2 groups:
Text & Selection (Text & Selection) - filters applicable to objects
Textures (Textures) - filters applicable to the image as a whole (for example, to create a background).
The plugin has excellent performance and convenient scaling mode. Eye Candy supports 64-bit Photoshop CS5-6. Filters of the 1st group allow you to generate content and fill an empty layer with a filter effect, while other filters will help you create a painterly effect by changing the main image.
Filter set 2 groups:
- Bevel provides ample opportunities for embossing, cut and beveled shapes of objects, imitates shiny metal with the ability to change the smoothness and rounding angle. This filter for photoshop ideal for creating button interfaces, designer text and many other effects.
- Chrome - imitates polished chrome, liquid metal and other shiny surfaces. The Chrome filter uses advanced reflective technology for a life-like effect.
- Corona - designed to create all kinds of flashes and aurora.
- Drip - used to apply the effect of a spreading image.
- Extrude - imitation of a retro 3D shape and volumetric lighting.
- Fire - creation of bright fiery tongues.
- Glass - imitation of the effect of glass, with the ability to adjust the shadow, reflection and refraction of light.
- Gradient Glow - creates a simple halo of light or a rainbow around a selected object (shine). Radiance can circle objects with the effect of neon lamps, fog, and much more.
- Icicles - used to "cover" the image with ice.
- Motion Trail - creates translucent stripes along the path.
- Perspective Shadow - creates 3D perspectives and shadows as well as reflections.
- Rust - superimposes rust spots, moss and mold on the image.
- Smoke - is used to create fog, smog and smoke.
- Snow Drift - Adds piles of snow to previously selected horizontal surfaces. Excellent imitation of snow on rooftops, trees, etc. with adjustable thickness, snow fraction and other parameters.
- A set of 15 texture generation filters: Animal Fur (Animal Wool), Brick Wall (Brick Wall), Diamond Plate (Metal Sheet), Marble (Marble), Reptile Skin (Reptile Skin), Stone (Stone), Wall (Wall), Swirl (Whirlwind), Texture Noise (Noise texture), Weave (Interlacing), Wood (Wood), etc.
The Eye Candy plugin has support for 16-bit images, CMYK color space and is compatible with 64-bit Photoshop CS4, CS5-6.
Image Doctor
Kit plug-ins for Photoshop, which are designed to correct and edit bad photos, as well as give a more refined look to high-quality digital images. Image Doctor comes with five high quality filters:
- Dust and Scratch Remover
- jpeg repair
- Blemish Concealer
- Skin Softener
- smart fill
With a list of these plug-ins, professionals and novice users can easily fix scratches, dust particles and any other distortions found on old scanned images, as well as restore the original quality of over-compressed images. The latter function will be extremely useful when processing images that were taken with a camera built into a cell phone. Proposed photoshop plugin set allows you to perform more complex operations related to removing unwanted objects, retouching, etc. Image Doctor allows you to process selected areas of the image and control the background, so that the edges of the corrected areas blend smoothly with the general graphic information in the photo.
The main functions of this plugin:
Dust and Scratch Remover - elimination of minor defects - scratches, inscriptions, noise, artifacts of old photos, etc.
Smart Fill - removes large objects in the image with the possibility of replacing these areas with a background (deleting a human figure, object, etc.).
JPEG Repair - elimination of structural defects that occur when an image is compressed in JPEG quality.
Blemish Concealer - completely removes obvious spots on the image, including the skin: acne, freckles, shadows under the eyes, tattoos. It will also do an excellent job of removing stains on a relatively smooth texture background.
Skin Softener - retouching large areas of the skin, reducing its natural defects: wrinkles, small shadows, highlights and oily sheen.
snap art
Photoshop plugin, which allows you to use a large library of preliminary preparations with imitation of various styles and is able to turn any photo into a picture painted in oil, watercolor or a drawing drawn in pencil, pastel, charcoal, chalk, etc. in a way. You will be able to view the original image and the results of processing by the plug-in in various split modes (screen division).
Snap Art includes 150 presets and over a dozen basic styles:
- The most popular styles among designers
- Colour pencils
- Comics
- Impasto (imposition of paints in a thick layer) on various bases: canvas, paper
- Oil paint
- Pastel
- pencil drawing
- Pen and ink drawing
- Pointillism
- Stylization
- Watercolor
- colored chalk
When creating a drawing, Snap Art takes into account the features of the contours of objects in the original photo, making strokes and strokes look realistic. Using presets, you can adjust various effect parameters: image tone, lighting, vignetting, and the type of canvas on which the effect should be applied. In addition, you can create and save your favorite custom effects as user settings.
Collection of all Alien Skin Software plug-ins released to date for Adobe Photoshop. These plugins will be useful for both beginners and professionals of Photoshop. With them, you can easily and efficiently process or decorate your images.
Alien Skin - Bokeh 1.0.0.174 for Adobe Photoshop
Alien Skin Bokeh is a new plugin for Photoshop designed to draw attention to a specific object in a photo. With this add-on, you can add a depth-of-field effect to an image, make a vignette, or emphasize the main subject in another accessible way. The peculiarity of the plugin is that it accurately mimics the blurring effect that can be obtained with real lenses. Bokeh - emphasis on the main subject of the photo.
Alien Skin Bokeh will allow you to "manage" the background blur, set the exposure diameter, depth, hardness, aperture value, lens focal length and shooting distance during post-processing of images using the adjustment sliders. Since the plug-in allows you to change these parameters during post-processing, that is, already on finished images, in this way it allows you to compensate for some of the shortcomings of digital cameras.
Allows real-time viewing of possible results when working with an image, and in several modes.
Offers out-of-the-box blur presets, Canon® EF 85mm f/1.2 II and Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 lens simulator, grain addition, spherical aberrations, photometric flare (simulates the effects of shooting against a light source.)
Alien Skin - BlowUp v2.0.2 plug-in for Adobe Photoshop
High quality image resizing, better than bicubic interpolation. The plugin, when resizing the image, maintains smooth, crisp edges and lines, and creates a fourfold increase without the appearance of stepped artifacts and glows. In some cases, Blow Up allows you to enlarge the image by six times without visible artifacts.
Alien Skin - Exposure v2.0 for Adobe Photoshop
Quickly capture the effect of shooting on specific film such as black and white Kodak T-Max, Konica 750 Infrared and Fuji Neopan or color films such as Kodachrome 25, Fuji Velvia 100 and Agfa RSX II. In addition, the plugin includes several photo effects, such as soft lens effect, cross-processing and some others.
Alien Skin - Eye Candy 5.1 - Impact for Adobe Photoshop
It includes tools for creating 3D text, glass buttons, shadows, chrome lettering, and more. There are 10 filters in total.
Alien Skin - Eye Candy 5.1 - Nature for Adobe Photoshop
One of the best add-ons for Photoshop in its field. Using the numerous presets available for each filter, you can create the most intricate natural effects in minutes.
Alien Skin - Eye Candy 5.1 - Textures for Adobe Photoshop
It will create various textures for you, ranging from tree species to animal textures, as well as many abstract textures.
Alien Skin - Image Doctor 2.0 for Adobe Photoshop
A set of powerful image correction filters for Photoshop, Fireworks, Paint Shop Pro, and other graphic editors. Image Doctor magically removes blemishes and imperfections and discreetly replaces unwanted parts and objects. Image Doctor is considered to be one of the best photo retouching software products and is also designed to fix various digital image defects. In his first aid kit you can always find the following medicines: JPEG Repair (removes artifacts on jpg), Scratch Remover (scratch removal), Smart Fill (smart fill) and Spot Lifter ("thief" spots). Among the ailments that Image Doctor can cure are the restoration of overly compressed images, the removal of scratches, wrinkles, tears in scanned old photographs, the erasure of acne, wrinkles and bruises under the eyes from the faces of posing people. In addition, the program allows you to remove large and small objects without disturbing the integrity of the image, as if they were not in the photograph.
Alien Skin - Snap Art v1.0 for Adobe Photoshop
This plugin is designed to turn photos into paintings and drawings, hand-drawn in different styles. Snap Art contains a fairly large set of presets that allow you to create paintings written or drawn in oil, charcoal, watercolor, colored pencils, pen and ink, pastel crayons, as well as in the style of comics, pointillism and impasto with one click layer).
The plugin allows you to select the canvas or paper type on which the image will be created. When creating a picture, Snap Art takes into account the contours of the objects in the original photo, so that strokes and strokes fall naturally.
Alien Skin - Xenofex 2.12 for Adobe Photoshop
Description of filters:
1. Burn Edges - creates the effects of burnt edges;
2. Classic Mosaic - classic mosaic effect;
3. Constellanion - effects for creating constellations;
4. Cracks - cracks;
5. Crumple - creates the effects of crumpled paper;
6. Electrify - creates lightning around an object or a selected area;
7. Flag - creates the effects of a waving flag;
8. Lighting - one big lightning - a direct relative of Electrify;
9. Little Fluffy Clouds - fluffy clouds;
10. Puzzle - the effect of a folding mosaic-puzzle;
11. Rip Open - creates the effects of torn paper;
12. Shatter - literally - "shards". Peculiar effect for distortion;
13. Stain - a very convincing picture of dirt, scale and other things;
14. Television - creates the effect of watching TV with any image quality.
Name: Alien Skin Plugins
Developer: Alien Skin Software
Year of issue: 2009
Activation|reg code: Yes (for each plugin)
Interface language: English
Platform/OS: Windows
| blow up 2 | bokeh | exposure 2 | Image Doctor 2 | |
The developer of Alien Skin is one of the most famous and best manufacturers of image editing utilities. An interesting feature is that Exposure can act both as a standalone program and as an add-on for Adobe products: and .
Available for Windows and macOS. Officially, the program does not support the Russian language, but you can find crackers from enthusiasts. They should not affect the license of the program.
Features Alien Skin Exposure
The main direction of the program is image processing using built-in presets. They can imitate professional film or individual effects: black and white, sepia, and more.
Obviously, the conversion quality is much higher than simple photo editing apps. Each of the photo parameters can be edited separately, even after applying the preset. It can be brightness, contrast, shadow and light, sharpness curve. You can also process not the whole image, but its individual sections. In total there are more than 500 built-in presets.
The appearance of the program does not at all indicate its power. A simple, intuitive interface creates a feeling of lack of opportunities. In fact, all of them are correctly grouped and placed on the program window. After 10-15 minutes of use, even a novice user will figure out what's what. The interface can even be customized to suit your needs.
In addition to processing images with Alien Skin Exposure, you can organize them: use the functions of the file manager, assign various labels, and so on. There are powerful search tools for all existing metadata, from the date to the lens used.
The program runs on its own unique engine, thanks to which it provides "precise editing". Effects applied to photographs do not just change the appearance, but qualitatively imitate what they are supposed to depict.
Features Alien Skin Exposure
Now the seventh version of the plugin is relevant, and over a fairly tangible period of existence, it has received several unique properties that distinguish it from the rest:
- Non-destructive RAW photo editor. This is how the developers call their creation, stating that during processing the file does not lose details and remains the same as it was when shooting, applying only those changes that are set by the user;
- Film presets don't just mimic images, but are built from careful research into the source material;
- Full support for PSD files;
- Ability to work as a plug-in for Photoshop and Lightroom and as a separate program;
- Two independent operating modes: color and black-and-white films.
findings
Alien Skin Exposure is one of the most famous image processing utilities. Its main feature is that, with the help of pre-prepared presets, it is able to imitate the look of photographic films as closely as possible. The parameters of each preset are studied in detail on the example of real photos. Each of them can be further edited after applying the filter.
This program will be an indispensable tool in the hands of any professional photographer, regardless of the direction of his work. The applied effects look great on portraits, documentaries and landscapes.
The popular application for full editing of photos and images, Photoshop, has the ability to add plugins. An important element of photo processing is alien skin plugin. In fact, he is ready to do anything with photographs, and the main limitation is only the author's imagination.
Plugins included in Alien pak
Blow Up / Bokeh / Exposure / Eye Candy / Image Doctor / Snap Art
Splat! / Xenofex
The main effects that alien skin adds are high-quality sepia, which will make a photo in an artistic style. The main features are also considered a step-by-step change in the brightness and contrast of the image, as well as the possibility of their manual balancing. It also includes the ability to change the image histogram. Changes to a given area can also be considered a great advantage - for example, changing the effect of a face or an abstract object. Installation and work with it is extremely simple and does not require special skills and efforts.
The contents of the archive with Alien pak plugins:
It is worth noting that alien skin is very versatile and can be used by both professionals and inexperienced users, because the interface is very clear and not burdensome.
Collection of all currently released plug-ins of the company Alien Skin Software for Adobe Photoshop. These plugins will be useful for both beginners and professionals of Photoshop. With them, you can easily and efficiently process or decorate your images.
Alien Skin - Bokeh 1.0.0.174 for Adobe Photoshop Alien Skin Bokeh
A new plug-in for Photoshop designed to draw attention to a specific object in a photo. With this add-on, you can add a depth-of-field effect to an image, make a vignette, or emphasize the main subject in another accessible way. The peculiarity of the plugin is that it accurately mimics the blurring effect that can be obtained with real lenses. bokeh- focus on the main subject of the photo. Alien Skin Bokeh will allow during post-processing of images with the help of adjusting sliders to "manage" background blur, set the diameter of the impact, depth, hardness, aperture value, lens focal length and shooting distance. Since the plugin allows you to change these parameters during post-processing, that is, already on finished images, it thereby allows you to compensate for some of the shortcomings of digital cameras. Allows you to view possible results when working with an image in real time, and in several modes. Offers ready-made blur presets, lens simulator Canon® EF 85mm f/1.2 II and Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8, graining, spherical aberrations, photometric flare (simulates the effects of shooting against a light source.)
Alien Skin - BlowUp v2.0.2 plug-in for Adobe Photoshop
High quality image resizing, better than bicubic interpolation. The plugin, when resizing the image, maintains smooth, crisp edges and lines, and creates a fourfold increase without the appearance of stepped artifacts and glows. In some cases, Blow Up allows you to enlarge the image by six times without visible artifacts.
Alien Skin - Exposure v2.0 for Adobe Photoshop
Quickly get the effect of shooting on a specific film, such as black and white Kodak T-Max, Konica 750 Infrared and Fuji Neopan or color films as Kodachrome 25, Fuji Velvia 100 and Agfa RSX II. In addition, the plugin includes several photo effects, such as soft lens effect, cross-processing and some others.
Alien Skin - Eye Candy 5.1 - Impact for Adobe Photoshop
It includes tools for creating 3D text, glass buttons, shadows, chrome lettering, and more. There are 10 filters in total.
Alien Skin - Eye Candy 5.1 - Nature for Adobe Photoshop
One of the best add-ons for Photoshop in its field. Using the numerous presets available for each filter, you can create the most intricate natural effects in minutes.
Alien Skin - Eye Candy 5.1 - Textures for Adobe Photoshop
It will create various textures for you, ranging from tree species to animal textures, as well as many abstract textures.
Alien Skin - Image Doctor 2.0 for Adobe Photoshop
A set of powerful image correction filters for Photoshop, Fireworks, Paint Shop Pro, and other graphic editors. Image Doctor magically removes defects and imperfections, and discreetly replaces unwanted parts and objects. Image Doctor is considered to be one of the best photo retouching software products and is also designed to fix various digital image defects. In his first aid kit you can always find the following medicines: jpeg repair(removes artifacts on jpg), Scratch Remover(scratch removal) smart fill(smart fill) and Spot Lifter("thief" spots). Among the ailments that can be cured Image Doctor", can be called restoring overly compressed images, removing scratches, wrinkles, tears in scanned old photographs, erasing acne, wrinkles and bruises under the eyes from the faces of people posing. In addition, the program allows you to remove large and small objects without violating the integrity of the image. As if they were not in the photo.
Alien Skin - Snap Art v1.0 for Adobe Photoshop
This plugin is designed to turn photos into paintings and drawings, hand-drawn in different styles. Snap Art contains a fairly large set of presets that allow you to create paintings written or drawn in oil, charcoal, watercolor, colored pencils, pen and ink, pastel crayons, as well as in the style of comics, pointillism and impasto with one click layer).
The plugin allows you to select the canvas or paper type on which the image will be created. When creating a picture, Snap Art takes into account the contours of the objects in the original photo, so that strokes and strokes fall naturally.
Alien Skin - Xenofex 2.12 for Adobe Photoshop
Description of filters:
1. Burn Edges- creates the effects of burnt edges;
2. Classic Mosaic- classic mosaic effect;
3. Constellation- effects to create constellations;
4. Cracks- cracks;
5. Crumple- creates the effects of crumpled paper;
6. electrify- creates lightning around an object or a selected area;
7. Flag- creates the effects of a waving flag;
8. lighting- one big lightning - a direct relative of Electrify;
9. Little Fluffy Clouds- fluffy clouds;
10. Puzzle- the effect of a folding mosaic-puzzle;
11. Rip open- creates the effects of torn paper;
12. Shatter- Literally - "fragments". Peculiar effect for distortion;
13. Stain- a very convincing picture of pollution, scale and other things;
14. Television- creates the effect of watching TV with any image quality.
Name: Alien Skin Plugins
Developer: Alien Skin Software
Year of issue: 2009
Activation\reg code: Yes (for each plugin)
Interface language: English
Platform/OS: Windows
File size: 64 Mb