"mamselle" wrote in message
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I'm interested as well, so here it is... ;-) Which do you use and what for?

Jan

I rather like optikVerve's Virtual Photographer, which is free. I use it for
mild tweaks such as softening, but it has many talents.

Confession: since I only use it in Photoshop, I don't know if it works in
IC. (blush)
"Jan Kucera" wrote in message
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for?

sorry for the delay in replying...i just returned from a holiday

i use:
* fantastic machine - paint engine : it makes subtle patterns...hmmm, like speckling a plain coloured square or blurring an image
* alien skin - eye candy : for a lot of different effects, mostly i use it for perspective shadow, drop shadow, drips for tears
* alien skin - xenoflex : more effects - i use this one for fluffy white clouds ;)
check for them at www.alienskin.com

others i used to use:
* kpt5 : made nice mandelbrot fractals
* flaming pear : interesting assortment of plugins, i loved india ink
* axion - flare & glow-n-sparkle : allowed me to add cool light effects to images

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there are also post-mic things i use to manipulate images

* xat : image optimizer
* 20/20 : makes seamless tiles
can't think of any others at the moment

:)
what about you, jan?
m

Hi,
welcome back and thanks for the list! :)

Actually I don't use any regularly. If I need any particular special effect
I try to look for any appropriate plug-in (like snow covering etc.. :)).
I tend to carry Sinedots II (by DragonFly) with my copy of ImgComp, it
generates quite cool images and patterns, but this is more for occasional
use.
Oh yes and I find AV Bros. Page Curl Pro 2.0 making absolutely
configurable, cool, smooth and realistic page curles (and other distortions
as well). :-)

I remember I had eye candy for while but I don't know what happened to
it... I've just looked to the xenoflex examples and some look indeed very
cool..however I think I would -for clouds- personally choose either real
photos or, in case of emergency, results from some advanced landscape
generating software, like Bryce3D and so on, in which you can moreover quite
configurate it your way. But this is maybe just because I'm a nit-picker a
bit.. ;-)

So that's it, I post the question more likely to find out what all you guys
use and what I shouldn't miss... :)

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:41:55 +0400, mamselle
wrote:

Well, I obviously use plugins of my own design but I'm sort of supposed to
;-)

Taking into account the enormous amount of plugins, it is normally easier
to ask "what sort of the effect you need" before recommending this or that
product.

i don't even know how to begin to make a plug in :)
kudos to you!
m

"Ilya Razmanov" ioc.ac.ru> wrote in message news:op.tf922anb6e3g07@toadie...
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:41:55 +0400, mamselle
wrote:

Well, I obviously use plugins of my own design but I'm sort of supposed to
;-)

Taking into account the enormous amount of plugins, it is normally easier
to ask "what sort of the effect you need" before recommending this or that
product.

Jan Kucera wrote:

xero graphics. I use "SuperSmooth" more than any others, but there are a
wealth of possibilities, and it is a free download.

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