Filter Forge – A high end Photoshop plug-in for creating stunning design

Filter Forge is a versatile high-end Photoshop plug-in that contains a multitude of filters that generate textures, special effects and image enhancements to generate a wide variety of realistic and abstract textures and effects.

Filter Forge come up with over 8141 free community-created filters in the online filter library. These high quality filters are easily downloadable, resolution independent and customizable.

The users can create diffuse, bump, specular and normal maps with the help of these filters.

One can create their own filters in the visual filter editor by assembling them from components such as blurs, gradients, color adjustments, noises, distortions, or blends.

Filter Forge 2.0

The 2nd version of filter forge is launched with some exclusive features like :-

Shadows via Ambient Occlusion

Point/Area Lights

New Lighting Options

Full HDR Support

Color Inspector

Bomber Component

Transform Components (Scale, Rotate and More)

Polygon and Ellipse Components

Free Gradients and Shapes

Lua Scripting

RGB Math Components

Instant Filter Search

Median, Minimum, Maximum and Percentile Components

Non-Seamless Filters

Supported host applications for Photoshop CS5 and Elements 7

Now the beta test version of Filter Forge 3.0 both for Windows and Mac OS X is launched with several major features and enhancements

Software:

Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7

Hardware:

Pentium III 733 MHz

128 MB RAM

50 MB free disc space

Screen Resolution 1024×768

Internet connection (for filter library and to submit filters)

Host Applications For Plug-in Use:

Adobe Photoshop 6.0 – CS5

Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 – 7.0

Corel Painter 8 – IX

Corel PHOTO–PAINT 10 – X4

Corel Paint Shop Pro X – XI

Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8 – 9

Ulead PhotoImpact 11 – 12

Trial Download for 2.0 version

Trial Download for 3.0 beta version