Adobe® Photoshop® CS3: Top 100 Simplified® Tips & Tricks

Chapter 10. Plugging into Photoshop CS3

Although Photoshop CS3 includes a variety of different brushes, shapes, and filters and comes with the Bridge application for organizing and viewing images, third-party plug-ins can help you improve your images more easily and often offer more functionality than Photoshop alone.

Plug-ins exist for nearly every project and for every user level. With the imaginative brush sets, frames, backgrounds, ornaments, and edges from Graphic Authority, you can quickly enhance or totally change the look of your photos. Andromeda's many filters enable you to make a variety of changes to a photograph, including turning a photo into an engraving while controlling every line and direction. Alien Skin not only makes plug-ins ...