Move over tired and overused filters, there’s a new filter factory in town! At first glance, Filter Forge looks like the average, run-of-the-mill Photoshop plug-in—with a multitude of filters that generate textures, special effects and image enhancements. However, that first impression doesn’t do justice to a program that allows you almost limitless customization of more [...]

If you have need of a product to take your images and present them in the best light, Storybook Album Designer has a product for you. Storybook can work with a small number of images & layouts, but its primary function is handling all of those images and prepping them for scrapbooks, cards for family and friends, etc. Where they get full use is for professional photographers who need an automated way to assemble images and make an attractive presentations and albums for clients.

Background Remover is a helpful plugin for Photoshop and other photo manipulation programs designed to streamline the process of extracting images from their original backgrounds.

Pixenlarge could be a useful tool for those working with Photoshop and many low resolution graphics of the illustrated style but don’t expect it to work miracles especially with images lacking an illustrative and hard edged ink line.

One-click masterpieces—the Holy Grail for Photoshoppers worldwide. Novice or master, we comb the Web for inspiration and that elusive, undiscovered, artsy effect that will quickly give our images the edge they need. But, after reading countless blogs touting the perfection of the latest and greatest (but often über-expensive) plug-ins, we give up. We go back to our comfort zones and relinquish the edginess we craved.

Beauty Box from Digital Anarchy is the makeup artist we all would love to keep on staff for all of our retouching jobs. We all want to give our clients breathtaking images that have the skin smoothing we desire without spending countless hours doing tedious retouching (thus the fine line between perfection and I guess it will be ok), hiring a retouch artist at $300 an hour or “plastic skin” that often is produced by cookie cutter actions.

AV Bros. Page Curl Pro 2.2 is a Photoshop plug-in to create page curls and folds with your images, however it can also be used as a texturizer, lighting lab, and to create some nice 3D style effects. However, creating page curls and folds is where this plug-in shines.

Backdrop Designer is a Photoshop plugin that has a variety of presets and customizable options to create backdrops for images. It includes over 600 presets as well as having the functionality to customize the style, scale, shape, and color of the backdrops you create. Favorite designs and options can also be saved as new presets.

What will the beautiful models of today look like forty years from now? What about your mother-in-law—after gaining a lot of weight? Will you be the handsomest at your school’s 25th reunion? If you have ever asked questions like these, then you might consider taking Abalone’s FaceAge for a spin.

Star Filter Plugin for Photoshop simulates star lens filters (also known as cross screen filters) – it adds star streaks to lights and highlights in an image. It can create a 4, 6, 8, or 16 point star filter effect (or any number from 2 to 16). It also allows you to adjust parameters such [...]