VanDerLee Halftone

Create the perfect Halftone™ effect.

The largest feature-set of any halftone dithering effect in the market ensures you can do things never seen before. Make creative design and artistic works with the Halftone plug-in or process images for the printing press quickly and painlessly. Halftone uses complex mathematical formulas and specifically designed and optimized algorithms to provide the best possible quality for any image.

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Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete Edition

52 filters With over 250 effects and styles in 52 easy-to-use filters, Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete Edition is the most comprehensive set of filters for color correction, retouching and creative enhancements available today.

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Color Efex Pro

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Auto FX Mystical Tint Tone and Color

Mystical Tint Tone and Color is a suite of 38 color effects that are both easy to use and provide you with professional results in seconds. The effects are applied by brushing on or removing the effect from the desired area. Mystical Tint Tone and Color has an efficient workflow for combining multiple editing steps into a simple dynamic interface with unlimited undo and redo, stackable effect layers and hundreds of instant one-click effects.

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Bickham Script Pro

  

 

Richard Lipton’s Bickham Script is a flowing, formal script typeface based on the lettering of 18th century writing masters, as rendered in the unparalleled engravings of George Bickham. This ornate script lends a signature flourish to invitations, menus, annual reports, restaurant logos, and packaging. With dozens of alternate letterforms in addition to its range of weights, Bickham Script’s personality can range from poised to extravagant. It is intended primarily for display settings.

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Bickham Script  Pro

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Warnock Pro

Designed by Robert Slimbach, Warnock Pro is a new Adobe Originals type composition family named after John Warnock, the co-founder of Adobe Systems, whose visionary spirit has led to major advances in desktop publishing and graphic arts software. A full-featured, state-of-the-art OpenType family - with Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek character sets in a variety of weights and optical size ranges-Warnock Pro is a classic yet contemporary composition family that performs a wide variety of typographic tasks with elegance.

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Warnock Pro

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Brioso Pro

 
Brioso® Pro is a typeface family designed in the calligraphic tradition of our Latin alphabet, evoking a finely penned roman and italic script — retaining the immediacy of hand lettering while having the scope and functionality of a contemporary composition family. Brioso blends the humanity of written forms with the clarity of digital design, allowing type users to set pages of refined elegance. Designed by Robert Slimbach, this energetic type family is modeled on his own formal roman and italic script. In the modern calligrapher's repertoire of lettering styles, roman script is the hand that most closely mirrors the oldstyle types that we commonly use today; it is also among the most challenging styles to master. Named after the Italian word for "lively," words set in Brioso moves rhythmically across the page with an energy that is tempered by an ordered structure and lucid form. An extended type family, Brioso Pro is available in five weights — Light, Regular, Medium, Semibold, and Bold — with companion italic fonts. The type family also features four specially-designed "Opticals" variations for setting captions, text, subheads and display headlines.

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Brioso Pro

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Brioso Pro PDF

Adobe Typography Primer

 

Ideal for your design course, this 20-page typography primer is an example of some of the great in-box materials included with Adobe Type Classics for Learning.

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Typography Primer

Vector Magic

 

Vector Magic's flagship service is the online auto tracer available on this website. It converts bitmap (aka raster) images into vector images through an easy-to-use web interface - just upload your image and it will guide you through the process.

The conversion process as such is called tracing or vectorization and is something that has historically been done mostly by hand. An automated tool like the Vector Magic web service can make this otherwise tedious task quick and painless.

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Redfield Face Control

 

Face Control plug-in allows you to change facial expressions of people in the digital photos. It is very easy-to-use freeware program. Human, animal, alien, or any other faces are welcomed.

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Lokas 3D Shadow

 

This handy tool easily creates various types of 3D shadows from objects such as letters, numbers, shapes and so on. All settings are present in a single window - transparency level, perspective, shadow color and position, X/Y/Z angles, and some others. Even the seasoned designers are surprised by the simplicity of the plug-in and excellent results it generates. The text, processed with this tool immediately grabs the attention of the viewers.  

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Adobe Kuler

Explore, create, and share color themes

Discover Adobe® Kuler™ — the web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project. Whether you're creating websites, interior designs, scrapbooks, graphic identities, or any other visual, experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community. Kuler uses Adobe Flash® technology and works both as a standalone tool and with Adobe Creative Suite® software.

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Kuler Desktop

To run the Kuler Desktop, you'll need to download the Adobe AIR™ runtime first.

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Picnik: Photo Editing Made Fun

 

Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames. It's fast, easy, and fun.

• Fix your photos in just one click
• Use advanced controls to fine-tune your results
• Crop, resize, and rotate in real-time
• Tons of special effects, from artsy to fun
• Astoundingly fast, right in your browser
• Awesome fonts and top-quality type tool
• Basketfuls of shapes from hand-picked designers
• Works on Mac, Windows, and Linux
• No download required, nothing to install
  

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Diavlo Light

Diavlo is a free font that is a bit square and sharp. Great attention has been given to detail, spacing and kerning. It contains more than 300 glyphs and over 1.300 kerning pairs.

Features:

Extended language support*

+ Improved glyph shapes (such as S, s, W, w, f, t, diactitics, fractions and many more ... )
+ Numeral widths are now old style (via OpenType tabular widths can be accessed)
+ Extended and improved kerning (now over 3.200 kerning pairs)

*Languages now (fully) supported:

Latin / Central European / Croatian / Romanian / Icelandic / Turkish / Esperanto

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Exljbris Font Foundry

The Rasterbator

 

The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. Upload an image, print the resulting multi-page pdf file and assemble the pages into extremely cool looking poster up to 20 meters in size.

The Rasterbator is very easy to use. You can either upload a file from your computer or use any file that is publicly available in the Internet. After you have cropped the image and selected a desired size, the rasterbated image will be sent to you as an easily printable pdf file.
Using The Rasterbator requires that you have Adobe Flash Player 7 and Adobe Reader (or other pdf viewer).

The standalone version is the same as the web version, except that downloading images from the web and image cropping are not supported, and you have to set the output size numerically (number of pages wide/high) rather than using a fancy drag handle. The results are exactly the same.

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Rasterbate Online

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Homokaasu

Virtual Photographer

Virtual Photographer lets you instantly apply high quality, professional photographic styles to your digital images, with just one click. Virtual Photographer includes over 50 presets that automatically apply combinations of film grain, color modification, B/W, soft focus, high contrast and many artistic effects to achieve the same professional-looking images that used to take hours of photo editing. Get results in seconds!

Compatible with Photoshop^®, Photoshop^® Elements, Paint Shop™ Pro^®, Photo-Paint and other popular imaging applications.

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OptikVerve Labs

ABR Viewer - Photoshop Brush Viewer

There are lots of wonderful brush sets for photoshop in the web... too many to install them, all just to see what they look like! now you can have the preview of a set without having to install it... without having to run photoshop! You can even adjust thumbnails size and you can have the preview of the actual size of the brush. This software can generate images for every single brush and can also generate the general image from the panel of the thumbnails you have visualized.

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ABR Viewer

AMP Font Viewer 3.82

This program is an easy to use but powerful font manager, which allows getting a quick overview of both installed and non installed fonts. It can install and uninstall fonts, and organize them in categories. Some of its features are:

• Supports TrueType and OpenType fonts.
• Supports Type1 fonts.
• Installation of fonts from a folder (one by one or from a list).
• Installation of fonts temporally (until the program is closed).
• Deletion of installed fonts.
• List of all installed fonts with several display options.
• List of the fonts from a folder with several display options.
• Several options for organizing fonts in categories and managing them.
• It can print a list of all or some of the installed fonts with an example of each font.
• Scratchpad area for testing the look of any font (installed or from a folder).
• Dual English/Spanish version.

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AMPsoft