Pixel Bender is a free plug-in for Photoshop CS5 that will give you a "painting" effect and a whole lot more.
Though it is from Adobe and free, it does not come as part if the Photoshop installation, you will need to head over to Adobe and download it here. You can check out (and download) Pixel Bender filters that have been designed by others at the Pixel Bender Exchange.
And if you're feeling real ambitious you can also download the Pixel Bender toolkit and develop some filters of your own.
In this episode of Photoshop User TV Dave Cross gives us a look at the capabilities of Pixel Bender.
My My friend Mike Palmer recently did a couple posts about Pixel Bender (here and here), below is one of the images he posted.
The details: "Shot using a D300 with a 24-120vr Nikkor... a 5 shot HDR merged and tonemapped in Photomatix Pro, to Lightroom 3 for small develop tweaks, then to CS5 to use Pixel Bender".
(click on image to view larger in a new window)
Though it is from Adobe and free, it does not come as part if the Photoshop installation, you will need to head over to Adobe and download it here. You can check out (and download) Pixel Bender filters that have been designed by others at the Pixel Bender Exchange.
And if you're feeling real ambitious you can also download the Pixel Bender toolkit and develop some filters of your own.
In this episode of Photoshop User TV Dave Cross gives us a look at the capabilities of Pixel Bender.
My My friend Mike Palmer recently did a couple posts about Pixel Bender (here and here), below is one of the images he posted.
The details: "Shot using a D300 with a 24-120vr Nikkor... a 5 shot HDR merged and tonemapped in Photomatix Pro, to Lightroom 3 for small develop tweaks, then to CS5 to use Pixel Bender".
(click on image to view larger in a new window) 
