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| Photoshop is definitely one of the best raster | | | | 4.ProEXR ( greatly expands on Photoshop's |
| image editors and it probably supports all image | | | | standard openEXR plug-in functionality. In addition |
| types you'll need for your work. So if someone | | | | allows to save layered EXR files, chose from |
| says, that Photoshop need a plug-in, because it | | | | different compression options, when saving and |
| doesn't support some of the needed type it may | | | | do some other things. |
| sound like heresy. But, don't hurry. There is still a | | | | System requirements: Windows and Mac OS. |
| chance, that you'll find an image with a weird | | | | Photoshop CS3 or higher. |
| extension, or you'll need to save image with | | | | Price: 95$. 15 days full-functional trial available. |
| particular settings...and suddenly find out, that | | | | 5.Sibcode Icon plugin for Photoshop ( gives you all |
| Photoshop doesn't support them. (By the way, if | | | | necessary tools for creating .ico images. It works |
| you think that there are few image file formats, | | | | with multi-format icons, transparency and |
| take a look at Moreover, what will you do, if you | | | | semi-transparency etc. You can both export and |
| need to apply some of the | | | | import .ico image and use this plug-in with some |
| very-very-photoshop-like features to the image, | | | | other software like Elements, AfterEffects, |
| which has nothing in common with raster, like | | | | Premiere etc. |
| SVG or DXF for example. | | | | System requirements: Windows only. Photoshop |
| There are tons of plug-ins for Photoshop around | | | | CS or higher. |
| the web. Here I'd like to present you some of | | | | Price: Free. |
| format extension plug-ins, which I found useful | | | | 6.Blow Up 2 ( Not sure, whether it is correct to |
| and some, that just add additional possibilities to | | | | place it here, but the plug-in helps to smooth over |
| work with common Photoshop supported types. | | | | one of the worst problems of raster files: quality |
| Note: I was using Adobe Photoshop CS4, so | | | | loss on resizing. By temporary converting image |
| some of good plug-ins for CS3 and earlier | | | | to vector representation, it makes |
| versions of Creative Suite, which doesn't support | | | | âzoomed inâ parts look better, |
| CS4, are not listed, because I couldnât | | | | so can be useful for preparing hard copy of the |
| try them. | | | | image. |
| 1.SVG Kit for Adobe Creative Suite ( is a plug-in, | | | | System requirements: Windows and Mac Os X. |
| which adds support of SVG images to Adobe | | | | Photoshop CS2-CS5 |
| Photoshop. Adobeâs support of SVG files | | | | Price: 149-249$ |
| format is limited, so it is possible to work with | | | | 7.SiteGrinder 2 ( âWeb designers and |
| SVG directly only in Adobe Illustrator. SVG Kit | | | | developers, don't go byâ. The plug-in, |
| gives opportunity to open SVG image like any | | | | which builds web sites from multilayer Photoshop |
| other supported one. In addition, SVG image is | | | | documents. The plug-in creates CSS , controls and |
| automatically decomposed to couple of layers, so | | | | other staff from the PSD multilayer image. |
| you can work with them separately. | | | | System requirements: Windows and Mac Os X. |
| System requirements: Windows and Mac OS X 32 | | | | Photoshop 6.x-CS4 |
| and 64 bit. Adobe Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5. | | | | Price: 129-349$ |
| Price: 99$ per licence. 30 days full-functional trial | | | | 8.SuperPNG ( is a free Adobe Photoshop plug-in |
| available. | | | | for using PNG ("ping") files. Compared to native |
| 2.Electric Image (EIAS) Format ( is image format | | | | Adobe's PNG plug-in it saves considerably smaller |
| plug-in, which allows to open files, created by | | | | PNGs. Note, that I couldn't download it from the |
| Electric Image Animation System ( Also reads | | | | main site, so you can find it with the help of |
| .EIZ ElectricImage Z-buffer depth files. According | | | | search engines. |
| to the developers tests, works 100 times faster | | | | System requirements: Windows and Mac Os. |
| then the Adobe's plug-in. | | | | Photoshop 5.5 or higher. |
| System requirements: Windows and Mac OS. | | | | Price: Free. |
| Almost all versions of Photoshop, depending on | | | | 9.j2k ( Nice and small plug-in, that allows to open |
| the type of operating system installed. | | | | save JPEG 2000 files. Compared to standard |
| Price: Free. | | | | JPERG its comrade offers better quality and |
| 3.PNGOUT Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop ( allows to | | | | smaller file size. System requirements are also |
| work with some unsupported types of PNG | | | | Photoshop 5.5 and After Effects 4.0 but it |
| images (like PNG8 files with transparency), and | | | | worked well. However you'll be able to find |
| gives additional save options. (like, for example | | | | several similar plug-ins if you want. |
| adding or removing some kind of image chunk) | | | | System requirements: Windows and Mac Os. |
| System requirements: Windows and Mac OS X. | | | | Photoshop 5.5 or higher. |
| Adobe Photoshop CS to CS5. | | | | Price:Free. |