I would say that a good start would be
(1) Neat Image (or Noise Ninja, or …. ) for noise reduction
http://www.neatimage.com/ (2) Polaroid’s Dust and Scratches program and plug-in for clean up
http://www.polaroid.com/service/software/poladsr/poladsr.htm l (3) A copy of Dan Margulis’ "Professional PhotoShop" book (to learn how to color correct and use "Curves" from a true master)
http://www.ledet.com/margulis/articles.html http://www.ledet.com/margulis/ACT_postings/ACT.htm http://www.ledet.com/margulis/ (3) A copy of "Photoshop Restoration and Retouching" by Katrin Eismann
http://www.digitalretouch.org/ Upgrade PhotoShop to CS … probably, but I would also take a very good look at Digital Light and Color’s Picture Window Pro. Or at least, their "Color Mechanic" plugin. It does some color correction tasks **much** easier than PhotoShop. Ideal situation would be to have both DL-C’s Picture Window Pro *and* PhotoShop CS *and* the DL-C plugin for PhotoShop. Additionally, PWP is the only *true*16-bit-per-pixel editor that I know about (and … yes … I know about CinePaint, which I consider to be promising, but in reality an un-finished, essentially "alpha" release).
http://www.dl-c.com/aboutpw.html http://www.dl-c.com/Temp/ http://www.dl-c.com/Temp/products/cmintro.html Other that the above, there are literally thousands of plugins available "on the web," many of them free. One source of information (caution, it *is* a for-profit venture) is ‘Plugin News’ …
To subscribe send a blank email to:
or use the web form at
http://thepluginsite.com/news/ [Disclaimer: I am *not* associated with this venture in any way, other than reading their newsletter..]
Some other interesting plugins that I have found useful for photography and color correction, and so forth, are from Cybia (in The UK)
http://www.cybia.co.uk/fotomatic.htm Try their ‘Free’ offerings first.
Another very useful plugin has been "Color Temperature & Exposure Correction." You can get it from Adobe’s Studio Exchange site, or from the authors (with extended documentation) at
http://plugin.artdesign.ru/ There are more … MANY more … and you can probably find most of them with your friendly local search engine.
"DaveN" wrote in message
Folks I would like your input as what are the *best* plug-ins, in your estimation for manipulating and correct photographic images both color
and
black and white.
URLS for the plug-in vendors would also be appreciated. Also would it
really
be worth this old man’s time and effort with his limited requirements as described above to upgrade to PS 7.0 and CS from PS 6.0.1?
Thanks in advance.
David N.