Adobe® Photoshop®-compatible image filters

RealWord Paint, RealWord Photos and RealWord Icon Editor are able to use .8bf image filters created for Adobe® Photoshop® and compatible software. This page lists manufacturers of plug-ins that were found to be at least partially usable from RealWorld software. Since there are far too many plug-ins, each plug-in author shall only be mentioned once. Any registered user is welcome to improve plug-in descriptions or to add entries at the end of the list (in a no-spammy way) - simply click the Edit link in the page footer.

VanDerLee

Offers 5 paid (AlphaToys, FilterOptix, HalfTone, OldMovie, UnPlugged-X) and 5 free (Camouflage, Harmonix, NightVision, Snowflakes, SnowScape) plugins. The plug-ins cover various tasks like changing transparency, lens filter emulation, halftone dithering, decoration of images, etc.

Download: http://www.vanderlee.com/

MEHDI

Mehdi offers 20+ free plug-ins for various imaging tasks and one paid plug-in for intelligent image magnification.

Download: http://www.mehdiplugins.com/

optikVerve Labs

VirtualPhotographer plug-in 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 professional-looking images.

Download: http://www.optikvervelabs.com/default.asp

Richard Rosenman

20+ free (3D Sphere, Box Fitting, deformations, ...) and some commercial plug-ins.

Download: http://www.richardrosenman.com/software/downloads/

AAA 8bf

Author of free AAA BLENDER and AAA OPTIONS and other plug-ins.

Download: http://8bf.net/

Photo-plugins

8 free plug-ins for color corrections, blurring, sharpening and lens correction.

Download: http://www.photo-plugins.com/Plugins/Plugins/

XERO Graphics

40+ free plug-ins and 4 commercial ones.

Download: http://www.xero-graphics.co.uk/index.htm

Redfield plugins

8 free plug-ins (including Craquelure3D) and 12 commerical ones. Mostly focused on texture generation or use of textures for special effects.

Download: http://www.redfieldplugins.com/index.htm

Little Ink Pot

3 free and 4 commercial plug-ins for edge detection, sketching effect or gray-scale conversion.

Download: http://www.littleinkpot.co.uk/

Flaming Pear

20 commercial and numerous free plug-ins. The commercial plug-ins include a planet-generating tool or a submerge plug-in.

Download: http://www.flamingpear.com/products.html

MV's plugins

Couple of freeware plug-ins.

Download: http://www.vicanek.de/plugins.htm

Cybia software

5 free plug-in and 3 commercial ones focused on color manipulation and outlining and shading.

Download: http://www.cybia.co.uk/photography.html

Antonino Perricone

Author of the Luce plug-in. Preview is not working in the current version of RWPaint.

Download: http://amicoperry.altervista.org/luce/index.html

Image Skill

3 free and 8 commercial plug-ins. Includes plug-ins for image masking, enhancement and special effects.

Download: http://www.imageskill.com/products_index.html

AmphiSoft

A couple of free and paid plug-ins for photo enhancements.

Download: http://photoshop.msk.ru/as/download.html

Alpha Plugins

A free red-eye removing plug-ins and a couple of paid plug-ins.

Download: http://www.alphaplugins.com/products/products.php?menu=photoshop_dir

Philipp Spoeth

Author of the Retrodots plug-in.

Download: http://www.philipp-spoeth.de/photoshop/retrodots.php

NVIDIA

Creates normal maps from height maps for per pixel rendering or various other effects.

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/photoshop_dds_plugins.html

lokas software

1 paid and 2 free plug-ins for 3D effects. Warning: the plug-ins use a skinning library that interferes with RealWorld menus and displays a error window when the application closes. Also, the 3D shadow effect was not working properly until a special workaround (to compensate for and error in it) was added to RWPaint...

Download: http://www.artistic-effects.com/

NVR

BorderMania and PhotoSizzle are 2 free collections of filters worth having.

Download: http://www.pluginfilters.com/index.html

Greg Schorno

Another collection of filters.

Download: http://www.state-of-entropy.com/home.htm (bottom of the page)

Hidden 3D

A pair of filters that can be used to create stereograms. The filters work in a kind of weird way fashion and as a consequence they require write access to the plug-ins folder.

Download: http://hidden-3d.com/stereogram_photoshop_filter.php

DC Photo Filers

A collection of various filters. Although they have an annoying custom user interface with sliders controls that cannot be dragged, the actual effects are worth trying out.

Download: http://bmath.net/dc/

Krusty's FX

Lots of free filters that do strange things. Maybe not useful for serious work, but fun to look at.

Download: http://www.krust.com/

The Plugin site

Some free and some commercial plug-ins. Downloading anything requires submitting email address, so nothing was tested (though at least the free plug-in probably work).

http://www.thepluginsite.com/

Aura Labs

Smart Refinement Filter did not work, because it can only be applied on single channels, which is impossible in RealWorld apps.

http://www.auralabs.com/products.html

AKVIS

Commercial plug-ins. Demo did not work in a virtual environment due to lack of graphic hardware => untested.

http://akvis.com/en/products-photo-editing-software.php

VERTUS

Commercial plug-ins. Demo intentionally did not work in a virtual environment => untested.

http://www.vertustech.com/

AutoFX

Some free, but mainly commercial "plug-ins". No actual .8bf effect was installed with the software. The actual Mosaic effect I tested would not be worth a 50MB download (serial number was exchanged for an email address) even if the .8bf file were there and worked.

http://www.autofx.com/