In Filter Forge, filters are assembled in a visual node-based environment. brings procedural texturing to Photoshop by releasing Filter Forge, a plugin allowing users to build custom filters without any programming.
It is said to be much easier to use than Filter Factory, and many of today's free and commercial plugins are made in FilterMeister. Īlex Hunter, inspired by KPT but dissatisfied with the limitations of the Filter Factory, presents FilterMeister - "a 'bigger and better' Filter Factory". Photo/Graphic Edges is one of the common image enhancement tools used by graphic artists of the time.
In the subsequent years they release a couple of much-noticed Photoshop plugins and automated effects software products. The same year, they also release the Black Box filter set, later renamed to Eye Candy, which becomes an all-time favorite among Photoshop users.
Īlien Skin Software, founded a year earlier, creates the first drop shadow filter for Photoshop. However, the fact that it requires considerable programming skills is viewed by many as a serious drawback. It uses programmable formulas to process the red, green and blue channels of each pixel of the image. Joe Ternasky releases Filter Factory, a plugin allowing users to create their own filters using an internal programming language resembling C and compile them as separate plugins. It features several advanced warp and deformation effects, as well as support for bump maps and 3D graphics formats (in KPT SceneBuilder). Many artists of the time consider it a must-have plugin set for Photoshop. Kai Krause releases one of the most renowned plugins of the 1990s - Kai's Power Tools (a.k.a. When Aldus and Adobe merge in 1996, Gallery Effects will be embedded into Photoshop. The same year, Aldus presents Aldus Gallery Effects - a set of filters including Emboss, Mosaic, Charcoal and other effects. History YearĪdobe first introduces filters and support for third-party Photoshop-compatible plugins in Photoshop 2.0. "Import/export plugins" acquire or write image data from or to certain devices, "file format plugins" open and save less common image formats (not inherently supported by Photoshop), and "automation plugins" automate certain tasks in the manner of Photoshop "actions" ( macros).