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home > Tips & Tutorials< > GRAPHICS SOFTWARE PLUGINS / FILTERS - PHOTOSHOP ILLUSTRATOR PAGEMAKER FIREWORKS AFTER EFFECTS PREMIERE AND QUARKXPRESS FILERS AND PLUGINS

GRAPHICS SOFTWARE PLUGINS / FILTERS FOR:

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP, ILLUSTRATOR, PAGEMAKER, FIREWORKS, AFTER EFFECTS, PREMIERE, & QUARKXPRESS

PLUGINS
-General Plugins, Filters, Addons
-Illustrator Plugins, Filters, Addons

SPOTLIGHT GRAPHIC DESIGNERS FROM OUR DESIGN COMMUNITY

-Photoshop Plugins, Filters, Addons
-Pagemaker Plugins, Filters, Addons
-Fireworks Plugins, Filters, Addons
-After Effects Plugins, Filters, Addons
-Premiere Plugins, Filters, Addons
-QuarkxPress Plugins, Filters, Addons

1000s of Free Photoshop Plug-ins & Filters Mega List - A comprehensive list of Free Photoshop Plug-in sites along with a summary of what plug-ins and filters you will find on each of these sites.

GENERAL PLUGINS : FILTERS : ADDONS : EXTENSIONS

Alien Skin Software - Quick and easy special effects for graphic designers.

Color Pilot™ - (Free to Try, Buy for $30, Windows) - for quick and easy color correction. (for Photoshop, PhotoDeluxe, Photo-Paint, Paint Shop Pro...)

Cybia Plugins - For use with compatible host applications, such as Adobe Photoshop, Paintshop Pro, Gimp, Ultimate Paint and Adobe Premiere. Filters include : Alpha, Colour, Edge, Screen, Emboss, Swap, Blaster, and Mezzy

Graphic Xtras - Here you can find many wonderful plug-ins for Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Painter, Photo-Paint, Illustrator, After Effectsand others, such as patterns, brushes, shapes, styles,...

The Digital ROC™ - software plug-in automatically restores color quality to digital images by removing the color cast from faded images and effects of tungsten and fluorescent lighting.

The Digital SHO™ - software plug-in automatically reveals details hidden in shadows commonly caused by exposure problems such as backlit subjects, uneven flash illumination and partial shade.

Path Styler (Free to Try, $80 to Buy, Windows) - a Photoshop plug-in that introduces a new way to create web buttons, frames, logos and more.

PluginPac (Free - Windows) - is a free suite of special effects video plug-ins for video editors/NLEs like Vegas Video, Adobe Premiere, Wax etc. Currently 3 plugins have been completed and made available for public download.

Plugins.com - If you are looking for plugin, this is the place to look! We have netscape plugins, Microsoft Internet Explorer plugins and photoshop plugins.

The Plugins Site - Plugins and Filters Free and Commercial Products.

Plugins World - Plugins for Adobe & Apple

Silhouette graphics art (Free to Try, $249 to Buy, Mac / Windows) - software for Macintosh and Windows instantly converts black and white or colour bitmap images into vector designs ready for use.

Super Blade Pro - Move to the next generation of BladePro, the plugin filter that combines textures with bevels and mirrorlike reflections.

ILLUSTRATOR PLUGINS : ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR FILTERS AND ADDONS

BoostX - is a suite of Adobe Illustrator plug-ins. These plug-ins increase the productivity of a typical Packaging prepress workflow in two different ways: the initial job preparation/fine-tuning in Adobe Illustrator, and checking of incoming jobs whether they are fit for final output.

FILTERiT4 - FILTERiT is a plug-in suite for Adobe Illustrator which features various exciting and unique effects.

Hot Door CADtools 2.1 ($199 to Buy, Mac / Windows) - merges graphic and technical power with a complete set of 38 drawing and dimensioning tools for Adobe Illustrator 7, 8, 9 or 10! Draw in any scale, dimension artwork with a mouse click, and numerically control objects like never before.

Hot Door MultiPage ($49 to Buy, Mac / Windows) - turns the industry-standard illustration program into a powerful publishing tool.

Hot Door Perspective ($179 to Buy, Mac / Windows) - is a complete dimensional drawing environment for Adobe Illustrator 8, 9 or 10. Now you can quickly make realistic compositions with isometric, oblique, and perspective objects over adjustable background grids. The Hot Door Perspective plug-in offers three levels of control for tackling your next design project

Panopticum LLC - Panopticum LLC developes different plugins for Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects & Adobe Premiere. Demo versions are available for download.

Sapphire Innovations - "Sapphire for Illustrator plugins & brushes, photoshop plugins, nozzles, shapes, styles, patterns, fireworks, flash, frames and more."

Switched On Software - Stay Put allows you to align objects without moving already correctly positioned objects. Stay Put is a simple and effective plug-in to solve Adobe Illustrator's inability to align objects without moving other objects already correctly positioned.

Vector Studio 2.0's (Free to Try, $129 to Buy, Mac / Windows) - suite of Adobe® Illustrator® plug-ins brings designers a balance of stunning creative filters and everyday tools to make artwork creation simpler and more enjoyable.

Virtual Mirror - suite of Adobe® Illustrator® plug-ins brings designers a balance of stunning creative filters and everyday tools to make artwork creation simpler and more enjoyable

PHOTOSHOP PLUGINS : ADOBE PHOTOSHOP FILTERS AND ADDONS

AmphiSoft plug-in filters - The package consists of both free and shareware filters for accurate image enchancement and wild special effects.

Andromeda LensDoc Filter - $98 - A universal solution to lens distortions - A Photoshop compatible plug-in that corrects barreling and pincushioning distortions in your photos which are produced by many zoom and wide angle lenses.

Andromeda Cutline Filter - $74 - Digital Engraving and Woodcut Effects
The Andromeda Cutline Filter for digital engraving and woodcuts, has four screens uniquely suited for exceptional hand engraved and woodcut effects. Specific tools allow for positioning and adjustment of directional screen lines.

Andromeda EtchTone Filter - $98 - Continuous Tone Art - Andromeda has developed a unique process for filter simulating the the look of a steel etch starting with gray/color photograph or illustration. The resulting etched continuous tone output resembles age old printing that just softens the harshness of the solid black and white etching.

Andromeda Photography Filters - $88 - The Best in Optical Lens Effects... The Photography Filters collection of 10 filters that let you add special optical lens effects to your images quickly and easily. It offers Reflection, Star, Prism, Velocity, cMulti, sMulti, Designs, Mezzo, Diffract, Rainbow and Halo.

Andromeda Screens Filter - $109 - Line Conversion and Mezzotint Master... Reinvented for the desktop. Converts gray-scale into a wide variety of different line art screens from 15 to 400 lpi. featuring mezzotints, sharp contrast mezzograms, mezzoblends, ellipses, lines, circles, spokes, waves or any blended combination. A 5 star, World Class Winner!

Andromeda Techtures Filter - $109 - Not just another texture library - Techtures offers over 500 hand rendered tiles which can be modified using "engines" within the filter and dozens of instant special effects: Smoke, Stars, Explosions, Water Droplets, Lightening, Embossing, and dimensional and environmental texturing.

Andromeda Three-D Filter - $56 - 99% of Your Daily 3D Requirement. (Series 2) Offers true 3D surface wrapping, viewpoint control, image and surface manipulation, and shading for scene building and compositing images, 3-D visualization and package design. A digital product only.

Andromeda Velociraptor Filter - $47 - Wildly Different Motion Trails - You'll notice the difference when you create your first motion trail. Velociraptor is the only plug-in filter that allows the user to create stylized motion trails that can Arc, Bounce, Cascade, Converge, Curve, Decline, Diminish, Jolt, Jitter, Loop, Spiral, Spring, Streak, Trail, or Wave.

Andromeda VariFocus Filter - $47 - Defocus then Focus to the Point - this depth of field effect is an Andromeda developed variable defocusing technology. Focus on an area by using our aperture masks or import your own. Distort, shift and save masks.

"ArtiFactor" and "Kinetics lab" - Free - are very complex feedback image processing filters, giving wild effects and producing "organic" textures (the background of this page has started this way). Explore bacteria growth and extremely complex kinetics of Belousov pulse chemical reaction transferred into familiar world of graphics!

Color Darkroom - (Free to Try, Buy for $99) - for Adobe Photoshop® that allows you to edit ICC color profiles for your printer. For more information, go to our Photoshop Plug-Ins page.

Color Pilot™ - (Free to Try, Buy for $30, Windows) - for quick and easy color correction. (for Photoshop, PhotoDeluxe, Photo-Paint, Paint Shop Pro...)

ColorSafe (Free to Try, Buy for $50, Mac) - is a filter plugin for Adobe Photoshop and compatible applications that provides fully interactive color pickers for the easy creation of almost limitless hybrid colors from the base colors in the Web safe palette.

Cybia Plugins - For use with compatible host applications, such as Adobe Photoshop, Paintshop Pro, Gimp, Ultimate Paint and Adobe Premiere. Filters include : Alpha, Colour, Edge, Screen, Emboss, Swap, Blaster, and Mezzy

DC Plugin Filters - DCspecial plugin filters work with various Graphics Apps. Highly Prized collection 6 years in the making. includes various Tile Tools, Layer FX, and even some Psychidelics

Deep Space Web Brushes - Free downloadable brushes.

Eliminate White Filter and Grid Creator Filter - Here you can download two original Photoshop plug-in filters.

Filter Farm - A Photoshop (Windows only) plug-in. It is not a filter. It is an environment where filters live their own life.

Filters Quick Review - It adds spice to Photoshop. It can fulfill the need of beginner as well as professionals. The first time user of Photoshop can just open an image and apply filters with single click. Professional will be more serious and can create wonders out of it.

Flaming Pear - Graphics plug-ins for Photoshop. Download free fully working demos

Free Photoshop Brushes - Here's some free Photoshop brushes for you to download from About.com.

Genuine Fractals (Windows and Mac, $8) - An indispensable tool for photographers, graphic artists and digital imaging professionals, Genuine Fractals enables you to create resolution-independent images from any size file and lets you print superior quality enlargements without any degradation in image quality.

Gora Nation's Brushes - Downloadable brushes and a description of how to load them.

GrafoManiac - they are very fun to play around with and sometimes you get surprised. Most of the filters have a wide range of adjustments, so the previews are only examples of what can be done.

Intellihance Pro quickly fixes the image color, saturation, sharpness, contrast and more. Side-by-side previews help you compare your image before and after enhancing to find the perfect look.

Jama 2000 - $19 - Flexible deformation tool and eccentric pattern/texture generator. Produces effect of crumpled paper or textile, variations of curtains, herringbones, wall tiles, knots, wickers, wrappers and strange surrealistic surfaces. (Works with Photoshop, Photo Paint, Paint Shop Pro, Photo Draw, and Photo Impact)

Jama 3D - Freeware - Simplest way to create corrugated and cellular like patterns from 2D images. You can easily make some kind of bricks and herring bones textures. (Works with Photoshop, Photo Paint, Paint Shop Pro, Photo Draw, and Photo Impact)

How to Create Custom Brushes - Have you ever wanted to create a brush to solve a specific image problem? Here's a description of the simple process.

Lattice Composer - Freeware - The effect designer of grids and nettings. Produces variety of weave patterns, fabric textures, body art tattoos and skeleton simulations. Extraordinary text effects. Full replacement of former Mesh 3D filter.

Lattice XP - $19 - Extremely powerful 3D structure maker. Cartoon-like effects, glossy metal and plastic surfaces, precious stones, drop-stile buttons, melted glass. High quality 3D rendering and interpolation. Compact and accessible. (Works with Photoshop, Photo Paint, Paint Shop Pro, Photo Draw, and Photo Impact)

Mask Pro provides several tools for quickly removing backgrounds and cleaning up the edges. Get professional-quality results in less time.

"Metalwork II" (Shareware) (now based on Mr. Smith™ chopping engine) help you easily convert flat text or logo to shiny 3D metallic object or turn your mate into Terminator

Name Suppressed Plugins - These Photoshop plugins are either freeware or functional demo versions, so you can try them out before you buy. No risk!

"Out of the noise" - Free - created on public demand. Many image editing programs lack "add noise" and "diffuse" filtering capabilities. If you suffer from this - just plug this freeware module in to fix it!

Paint Alchemy - (Mac / Windows - $199) transforms your images with painterly effects like Colored Pencil, Impressionist, or Pastel choosing from 75 built-in brushstroke effects and 36 editable brush style and complete versatile controls.

Panopticum LLC - Panopticum LLC developes different plugins for Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects & Adobe Premiere. Demo versions are available for download.

Panotools- $ 40 / Mac - For Photoshop 7 on OS X Based on Helmut Dersch's Panorama Tools, our plug-ins for Photoshop can simply be described as versatile, accurate and powerful. Now available for OS X, our four plug-ins (Adjust, Correct, Perspective and Remap) can extract flat images from panoramas, correct for lens distortions, re-map images between many different image projections and much more.

PC Resources for Photoshop's Plugins (PC and MAC )- The World Famous Filter Factory Galleries and Andrew's Filter Collections Galleries

Perspective Filter - $47 - View and manipulate your image through our "lens" - A unique Photoshop compatible plug-in that uses a camera paradigm to introduce or enhance depth or perspective distortions in your images.

Photoshop Brushes - Use 'em anytime and anywhere! Download some custom brush sets for Photoshop and let your imagination run wild. An included readme.txt file will explain how to add them to your Brush Palette.

PhotoFrame includes over 2000 frame files you can customize and combine to make your own custom frame. Or, create your own frames from scratch!

PhotoGIF - $70 Mac / PC*, has earned an impressive reputation as the top tool for Web graphics production. PhotoGIF is available as an Adobe Photoshop file format and filter plugin combination for Macintosh, and as a *single filter plugin for Windows.

Photoshop Import XT - $99 - Import layered Photoshop files directly into QuarkXPress

PhotoTools includes several plug-ins for creating seamless textures, web buttons, groovy custom bevels plus PhotoCastShadow for making realistic shadows with perspective and blur.

PhotoTune Software - 20/20 Color MD is a lightning-fast Photoshop plugin that works like an eye exam to streamline color correction. 20/20 Color MD is must-have production tool for photographers, because it\'s more fun taking photos than fixing photos. From the award-winning creator of Test Strip and Metamorphosis. For Mac OSX and Windows.

Raster master: - (Free to Try / Shareware) - from basic TV-screen to delicate woodcut effects, from simple textures to weird moire - one filter does it all. Although it's not powerful enough to produce guilloche for a fake dollars, it may help you earn some real ones.

RedEyePro Filter - $39 - A direct and easy method of redeye removal for Photoshop users. Red-eye is caused by light reflected off the subject’s retina when a flash picture is taken in low light.

Sapphire Innovations - "Sapphire for Illustrator and Photoshop plugins & brushes, photoshop plugins, nozzles, shapes, styles, patterns, fireworks, flash, frames and more."

ScatterLight Lenses - $98 - Professional Digital Lenses for Scattering Light - The ScatterLight Lenses produce a broad scope of realistic patterned and diffusion lens effects ranging from subtle soft focus effects most often seen in professional portraiture and landscapes, to more dramatic effects that scatter and focus light over the brightest areas of an image.

Seamless Workshop - Freeware - Composes seamless tile from any image. Also "surrealistic modification" of a picture can be produced. Unique 'Seamless Blur' effect can be useful for any available tileable pattern. (Works with Photoshop, Photo Paint, Paint Shop Pro, Photo Draw, and Photo Impact)

Two "Shaman" filters (shareware) ("Convolution shaman" and "Sorting shaman") are developed to give you all the necessary basic functions like blur, sharpen, edge detection and sharpening, despecle and many others. What makes these filters special is a whole set of necessary extras and options like apply mode switching or "wrap apound" processing (ideal for seamless patterns) - just to name a few.

"Simplifier" - Free - plugin provides a wide range of "painterly" artistic effects by simplifying image colors and edges. Please check out the larger preview of several effects.

SmartGif (Free to try, $50 to Buy, Mac)- it lets users divide a single Photoshop file into multiple Web ready GIFs in ONE EASY STEP.

Terrazzo (Free to try, $199 to Buy / Mac) - is the only tool that creates symmetrical tiled backgrounds quickly and easily. Terrazzo creates seamless tiles by applying one of 16 semmetry options to selected image areas.

Texturation 3D - $28 - Multilayer texture mapper. Abstract stylization tool with collection of high quality patterns. A smart random settings generator allows to create combinations by simply clicking the Dice. (Works with Photoshop, Photo Paint, Paint Shop Pro, Photo Draw, and Photo Impact)

"Thread master" - Free - is a free plug-in filter providing cross-shaped smudge effect with many options.

Total Xaos (Free to try, $579 to Buy / Mac) - The Bundle of three essential designer plug-ins from the makers of Hollywood special effects. Paint Alchemy, Terrazzo and TypeCaster in one bundle.

Upright - The Photoshop Plug-in for faster and better alignment of images to picture edges

Vizros Plug-ins - $25 - are Photoshop compatible filters. With this software, realistic, high quality, and sophisticated three dimensional page wrapping effects have never been easier to create.

WebClipper (Free - Mac) - is a free Macintosh Adobe Photoshop filter plugin that corrects the color shifts from Web safe colors that routinely occur during color reduction to adaptive palettes.

Web JPEG Plug - $19 - in is a JPEG compression Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop and compatible products. In addition to the superior JPEG compression it has the unique Smart thumbnail generation functionality that most of Web designers need.

Xylograph (Free to Try, Shareware) is another kind of halftone filter, centered on simulating hand-drawn halftone of varied angle seeng in many engravings, as well as texture of xylograph prints.

FIREWORKS PLUGINS : FIREWORKS FILTERS AND ADDONS

Sapphire Innovations - "Sapphire for Illustrator plugins & brushes, photoshop plugins, nozzles, shapes, styles, patterns, fireworks, flash, frames and more."

AFTER EFFECTS PLUGINS : AFTER EFFECTS FILTERS AND ADDONS

AE Flame - Create your own animated flame fractals

Boris FX - Boris FX 6.0 provides advanced compositing features such as 27 apply modes, motion blur, particles, lighting effects, and displacement mapping.

Diaquest - The recognized industry leader in video animation control and network image transfer, offers a wide range of products for animation recording and capture, and video input/output solutions for Macintosh, Windows, and SGI computers.

DigiEffects - Digital Special Effects Tools

Digital Film Tools - presents a comprehensive set of special effects plug-ins for the television and motion picture industries. Available for Avid Editing Systems and Adobe After Effects, Composite Suite 2.0 includes indispensable effects tools that no editor or artist should be without.

Eye Candy for After Effects - $299 - Eye Candy for After Effects is a set of 20 time-saving special effects that will enhance any film, video, animation or multimedia project.

Panopticum LLC - Panopticum LLC developes different plugins for Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects & Adobe Premiere. Demo versions are available for download.

ReelSmart - ReelSmart FieldsKit provides better deinterlacing and more workflow options for interlacing and pulldown.

Scopo Gigio - Full featured video waveform monitor and vectorscope for adobe effects.

Spices for Adobe Premiere - Add our Video SpiceRack PROT and OrganicFXT CDs. Then you can easily create subtle "directional" dissolves, terrific organic transitions, cool cutting-edge looks, and an enormous range of other super-softenable transitions -- all tied to your content and creative desires.

PREMIERE PLUGINS : ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR FILTERS AND ADDONS

Access FX - Download Lord of the Wipe and Translux from Access FX. Lord of the Wipe is a gradient-based transition plug-in for Adobe Premiere with fully customizable options, and TransLux is a pixel-based transition plug-in for Adobe Premiere which allows the user to customize a wide variety of parameters.

Boris FX - Boris FX 6.0 provides advanced compositing features such as 27 apply modes, motion blur, particles, lighting effects, and displacement mapping.

CrystalGraphics - is a leading provider of add-on products and services designed to add energy and excitement to your corporate communications. Our award-winning products and services will add the power and flair of TV-style graphics and effects to your presentations, Web sites, and videos!

Cybia Plugins - For use with compatible host applications, such as Adobe Photoshop, Paintshop Pro, Gimp, Ultimate Paint and Adobe Premiere. Filters include : Alpha, Colour, Edge, Screen, Emboss, Swap, Blaster, and Mezzy

Paint Alchemy - transforms your images with painterly effects like Colored Pencil, Impressionist, or Pastel choosing from 75 built-in brushstroke effects and 36 editable brush style and complete versatile controls. Windows/Macintosh, Photoshop plug-in filter

Panopticum LLC - Panopticum LLC developes different plugins for Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects & Adobe Premiere. Demo versions are available for download.

Screens Filter - Line Conversion and Mezzotint Master... Reinvented for the desktop. Converts gray-scale into a wide variety of different line art screens from 15 to 400 lpi.

Spices for Adobe Premiere - Add our Video SpiceRack PROT and OrganicFXT CDs. Then you can easily create subtle "directional" dissolves, terrific organic transitions, cool cutting-edge looks, and an enormous range of other super-softenable transitions -- all tied to your content and creative desires.

Three D Filters - Offers true 3D surface wrapping, viewpoint control, image and surface manipulation, and shading for scene building and compositing images, 3-D visualization and package design. A digital product only.

TypeCaster - Turns ordinary type into broadcast-quality 3D titles with depth, texture, and contours that lift off the page. Create eye-popping type quickly and easily. Windows/Macintosh, Photoshop plug-in filter

QUARKXPRESS PLUGINS : QUARKXPRESS FILTERS, EXTENSIONS, AND ADDONS

ArabicXT turns QuarkXPress into an Arabic desktop publishing software.

BeyondPress converts QuarkXPress layouts into Web pages, including conversion of images and graphic text. Perfect for designers who need to create both print and Web layouts.

Book-O-Matic (Free to Try, $50 to Buy, Mac / Windows) - is an XTension for QuarkXPress used to print booklets and mockups. All controls are so tightly integrated you'll think they've always been there. Click on one of the links below for more information.

FitInXT is a user-friendly QuarkXPress XTensions that saves time by making once complicated tasks exceedingly simple. From now on, you can instantly copy fit text, insert inter-box and inter-column rules, display text overflow and more.

Photoshop Import XT - $99 - Import layered Photoshop files directly into QuarkXPress

PrintXPORT - a suite of independent applications that facilitate a smooth transition from the design stage to the printing stages for all print jobs. PrintXPORT responds to strong market demand for a reliable solution, leaving no room for costly errors or miscommunication among designers, project managers, service bureau, and print houses.

QX-Tools Pro includes 12 must-have XTensions for the creative professional of any level. Easily import Excel and PowerPoint files. Create your own customized shortcut palette. Collect fonts and images, preflight files, and send them to your printer in one simple step.

QX-Tools 4.0 is a collection of productivity XTensions including layers, improved scaler and page viewer, item styles, robust find and change, the ability to import anything PostScript into Quark objects, and more.

QX-Effects interactively guides you through creating effects… without leaving QuarkXPress.

SafahatXT - Layout's entry-level desktop publishing QuarkXPress XTensions for Arabic, allows publishers to take advantage of the professional features of QuarkXPress. Enjoy ease of use, versatile document creation tools, sophisticated typographic controls, and high-end color separation and output options.

StripitXT is the only XTensions to QuarkXPress™ to automatically extract Arabic and Latin text from QuarkXPress documents into a hot folder. StripitXT prepares the contents of your QuarkXPress documents for web designing and for archiving.

XPressGuides - $19 - is a utility that allows easy, precise, and intuitive control and placement of guides in QuarkXPress™. It creates a palette that provides the user a wealth of guide controls and options:

XTension Catalog - Our online XTensions™ Catalog contains descriptions, prices, and contact information about XTensions modules created by both our third-party developers and by Quark.

PAGEMAKER PLUGINS : ADOBE PAGEMAKER FILTERS AND ADDONS

Andromeda PhotoTiler Plug-in - $47 - Arrange It Quick and Easy! An essential Plug-in for Adobe PageMaker. Loads and labels images automatically. Provides batch loading. Adjust margins, number of cells, spacing, rules, autoscale and captioning for batch processing. Perfect for print or web image organization, photo albums, catalogs, and real estate and car ads.

PLUGINS
-General Plugins, Filters, Addons
-Illustrator Plugins, Filters, Addons
-Photoshop Plugins, Filters, Addons
-Pagemaker Plugins, Filters, Addons
-Fireworks Plugins, Filters, Addons
-After Effects Plugins, Filters, Addons
-Premiere Plugins, Filters, Addons
-QuarkxPress Plugins, Filters, Addons

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Jul 5

20 Ways to Avoid Graphic Designer?s Block
As a designer everyone has experienced a point where they just can no longer think of anything worth while. It?s in these situations when you have to reevaluate your perception of what works and what doesn?t. Use the following 20 tips to avoid and get through a tough designer's block.

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Jun 18

Free Online Font Tools - Mega List of Web Based Font, Text, & Type Tools
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Jun 13

List of Graphic Design Podcasts on Topics Graphic Design, Web Design, Typography and More
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Jun 7

List of Vector Conversion Software - 30+ Tools to Turn Photos into Line Art and Illustrations
I love Vector Magic, a free online vectorization tool. It is a really cool browser-based tool that can be used to turn a photograph into an illustration. It doesn't always succeed in getting that look that you might be looking for, but it does a pretty good job. I usually just use it to play around with photos to see what Vector Magic can do with it, but it also can be very useful if you want to convert a photo into an illustration. I started to wonder how many other vectorization tools and software packages there were out there and I was surprised to find out that there are a ton o them. Basically, most of these tools turn Raster / Bitmap / Photo Images into Line Art / Illustrations / Vector Art.

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May 28

Free Photoshop Shapes Downloads - Mega List of Free Custom Vector Shapes for Adobe Photoshop - Part I
I am in love with vector shapes right now. I think they are so handy to have around when you are building a site. The way that you can stretch vectors without creating jaggy edges, makes them incredibly useful. Most of the time I just land up breaking them apart to use a curve that I like. I also love using them for as badges or buttons on web sites. I have collected a huge selection of free custom Photoshop shapes. If you download every single one of these, there are probably close to 15,000 free Adobe Photoshop shapes. There are more to come in Part II. Enjoy.

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May 27

A New and More Accurate Search Engine for Finding Free Clipart
As graphic designers, we are always on the hunt for quality free clipart images to use in our designs. The problem is that often searching for clipart often brings back very inaccurate search results. Well, thanks to one of my friends, I have found a new site called Find Free Clipart which will make my life much easier the next time I search for clipart online.

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May 20

Become a Graphic Designer - Design Careers & Design Education Advice from Professional Designer
Whether you?re right out of high school, a Mom looking for a career she can do from home, recently out of the Military or simply someone who feels they have a knack for design and is ready for a career change, consider that you have a few options on how to gain the skills you will need to pursue your dream job. But first, ask yourself some questions

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May 16

Online Drawing Tools & Free Online Painting & Sketching Tools
As Graphic Designers, we are all creative individuals. I thought that most of you would love to know about all of the fantastic online drawing and painting tools that are available online. Not only are they fun, but they are also quite useful for sketching out some of our ideas. Some of these tools can also be used as design collaboration tools to use with your co-workers, clients, friends, teachers, and family. Enjoy and don't hesitate to send me links to online drawing tools that I might have missed.

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