PhotoFiltre Forum

Some of the best and free 8bf filter are not very famous their links could be hard to find: here some of my favourites
http://www.simpelfilter.de
this webside was only german, NOW it also in english, you could find 3 very good filter, with very good HOW TO and very accurate tecnical info
http://www.clatfelter.net/8bf/plugin.html
Even harder to find , he recently updated and improved his plugins

The following 2 instead are quite famous sides with good stuff
http://www.mehdiplugins.com
http://www.cybia.co.uk/
Maybe those informations could be useful also for the french user of this forum,if somebody could make a french translation of this message and post in the french plugin section of this forum i suppose he will make somebody happy
If you enjoy those info let me know, i will add some other link (only the most useful and harder to find with free stuff or only time limited shareware,,cybia and mehdi were exception,they both deserve it)

Thank you for these links, but we have lots and lots of links and users are a bit lost

Thanks for these links, i have found a new one to turn on an image in pseudo Infra Red effect.
I was searching about something like that from a couple of month and it matches exactly like i wished : vegetation becomes quite diaphanous as it works normaly with an optical IR filter, an it keeps a good contrast level.

Have a look at the site of Joseph Levy, who use this technic :

http://www.pbase.com/catson/plantation_infrared

I had report the link of cybia on the french part of forum. The others are already well known by the 8BF fans.

Do you know the site of Xero ? I recommand you Clarity and Porcelain.

http://www.xero-graphics.co.uk/freeware.htm

http://www.reindeergraphics.com
here to find a very good "local equalization" filter (the best, as far i know) and other free filter (select edges , wide istogram ,custom filtre,and some more).
There are part of their commercial packages...Fovea pro is for me the most interisting but is really expensive,the good new is that is possible a 21 day try out
(no link for FP4 evaluation copy,you need to ask for it by e mail..instead there is a link to download & try their "artistic/photographic" plugin ,optipix)
It is supposed to be used for "scientific work" but it gives a lot of very useful tools and much more chance of fine tuning then "artistic filtres"

"adaptive equalization" is the name of the free filter, there is also "local equalization" but is not free(it's inside FOVEA pro)...Btw the effect is quite similar