Filters

Filter Foundry

A compatible and improved replacement for Adobe Filter Factory. Now fully scriptable!
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Also see Filter Forge: seamless textures, visual effects, distortions, patterns, frames and more. Filter Forge has released 4 free plugins, comprising 7 filters each.

Scramble Filter

Break an image into square or rectangular blocks, and rearrange them randomly, like a sliding block puzzle. (For more sophisticated puzzles, such as jigsaws, see AV Bros. Puzzle Pro.)

Count Colours Filter

Counts distinct RGB colours in an image or selection. Also counts distinct values in single channels. Works with both 8 and 16 bit images.

5/6/5 Filter

Reduces colour depth of channels to 5 bits red, 6 bits green, 5 bits blue (total 16 bits or 65536 colours). Applies error diffusion dither. Useful for adapting images to limited colour depth of cell phones, mobile, and tablet devices, including Android image formats. Also includes 5/5/5 variation (32768 colours).

12bits Filter

Reduces colour depth of each channel of an image to 4 bits/16 values (4096 colours). Useful for adapting images to limited colour depth of cell phones and mobile devices.

Life Filter

Filter implementing Conway's Game of Life cellular automaton.

Histotext Filter

Export image histogram counts as a text file.

Cylinder Distort Filter (Photoshop)

Wrap an image (for example, a label) around a cylinder or bottle.

Patharea Filter

Computes the area and length of Illustrator paths. Note that in CS4, filters appear under the Object menu.

Pathlength Filter

Computes the length (perimeter) of Illustrator paths.

Radial Distort Filter

A filter which performs a particular kind of artwork distortion.

Pathtotext Filter

Exports a text file (tab delimited) of selected path coordinates. Note that in CS4, filters appear under the Object menu.

Cylinder Distort Filter (Illustrator)

Wrap artwork (for example, a label) around a cylinder or bottle.

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