ImageSkill Software News

New Background Remover tutorial - How to change image background.

5 March 2010 11:39:37 GMT

This tutorial will show you how to change image background and make fun collage.

This tutorial contains the following sections:

Step 1: Choose suitable images for collage
Step 2: Extract dolphin from the image
Step 3: Copy and paste extracted image on new background
Step 4: Adjust image size and position
Step 5: Save a final result

Best regards, ImageSkill team

ImageSkill PixPattern: Extremely smart plugin transforming your photos into a mosaic.

28 Jan 2010 11:39:37 GMT

ImageSkill Software is glad to present our new Adobe-compatible plugin - ImageSkill PixPattern. It allows you to apply beautiful, mosaic, artistic effects to your photos by choosing a mosaic type from a predefined set of differing mosaic shapes.

Features at glance

Original algorithm of an image transformation into a mosaic
Wide effects range
Support script/action
Multilingual interface (English, German, French, Spanish, Russian)

Best regards, ImageSkill team

Reviews of ImageSkill products from Bright Hub

30 Jul 2009 11:39:37 GMT

Please look at the reviews for several Image Skill plugins that are now available online at Bright Hub. These reviews were written by Michele McDonough who is a web programmer and independent technical consultant living in the northern Nevada area.

Reviews

ImageSkill Displacement Map - new FREE cool tool for image distortion tool.

23 Jun 2009 11:39:37 GMT

ImageSkill Software is glad to present our new Adobe-compatible plugin - ImageSkill Displacement Map. It allows a user to distort (warp, or displace) an image geometrically using various displacement maps/textures. The plug-in implements a high quality interpolation method (the so called Mip-Map method) that noticeably enhances the result.

Features at glance

Original displacement algorithm
High quality image warping by mip-map anisotropic interpolation
Supports script feature.
Multilingual interface (English, German, French, Spanish, Russian)
16-bit image support

Download ImageSkill Dipsplacement Map now FREE

ImageSkill Magic Sharpener: New version of amazing sharpening tool dramatically improving your photo

7 Apr 2009 11:39:37 GMT

ImageSkill Software has updated of ImageSkill Magic Sharpener amazing plug-in to v.2.0 for Windows. It allows a user to get a dramatically improved look of images by perceived sharpness enhancement without increasing color halos and noise. This plug-in increases the contrast along edges and gets more sharpness and contrast to fine details, making them more visible.

Features at glance

High quality image sharpening without halo defect
JPEG artifacts removal
Noise suppression feature
Original high-speed sharpening algorithms
New brushed selective sharpening function
Supports script feature.
Multilingual interface (English, German, French, Spanish, Russian and Japanese)
16-bit image support

Magic Sharpener Demo download link

As subscriber you can order Magic Sharpener with 20% discount.

How to attach Adobe-compatible plugins to Corel (JASC) Paint Shop Pro

29 Mar 2009 11:39:37 GMT

Using this tutorial you can see how you can attach Adobe-compatible plugins to Corel (JASC) Paint Shop Pro.

Corel (JASC) Paint Shop Pro (http://www.corel.com) is one of most popular graphic editor. This is very good functionality and at the same time cheap.

The current version is Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 Ultimate. The ImageSkill Background Remover (http://www.imageskill.com/backgroundremover/backgroundremover.html) belongs to this version as third-party bonus.

PSP supports multiple plugin's path and user can make its enabled and disabled, so installer can detect wrong plugin path, but in any case you can attach any Adobe-compatible plugin to PSP.

In order to attach Adobe-compatible plugin to PSP you have to: ( Read more ... )

How to run Adobe-compatible plugins under GIMP graphic editor

24 Feb 2009 11:39:37 GMT

Using this tutorial you can see how you can run Adobe-compatible plugins under GIMP.

GIMP (http://www.gimp.org) is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

GIMP can support Adobe-compatible plugin using third-party program PSPI written by Tor Lillqvist (http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/pspi.html).

How to attach Adobe-compatible plugins to XnView

13 Feb 2009 11:39:37 GMT

Using this tutorial you can see how to attach Adobe-compatible plugins to good freeware graphic editor XnView

ImageSkill Background Remover - the simplest way for object extraction from your photos all over the world

19 Nov 2008 01:39:37 GMT

ImageSkill is pleased to announce version 3.1 of Background Remover plug-in for Windows with an improved feature and multi-language interface (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Russian,Japanese, Chinese Simplified, and Chinese Traditional). The main goal of the Background Remover is to extract object from textured background.

It fast and easily extracts opaque and semitransparent objects from a complex background of a digital image while preserving edge detail, such as hair or blurred edges. You only need to mark very roughly an object and background and choose the cutting out tool from a toolbar. Object extraction is achieved in a shorter amount of time than using competitive tools and techniques.

Features at glance

Extraction of different object types (solid, lace-like and semi-transparent objects)
Very simple and intuitive user interface with only a few controls
Original high-speed extraction algorithms
Color unmixing for background replacing
Tools for debris removing and holes filling within received mask
Switching between original image and result one and preview the extracted object against a colored matte background for result checking.
Multilingual interface (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Chinese Simplified, and Chinese Traditional)
16-bit image support

Background Remover Demo download link

ImageSkill: Magic Sharpener v. 1.5 and competitive plug-ins

24 Oct 2008 11:39:37 GMT

We would strongly recommend you look at the excellent article about sharpening tool comparison written by Hugo Rodriguez (http://www.hugorodriguez.com). He is a pro photographer and works as a photo technique professor at GrisArt school of photography, and as a digital image / color management consultant at EGM Pro labs at Barcelona, Spain. We hope you enjoy this article. It is the most comprehensive and professionally done comparison of the modern sharpness plug-ins and filters we have ever seen. Originally it was written in Spanish.

New ImageSkill tutorial is available: How to make "Out of bounds" image

17 Apr 2008 11:39:37 GMT

This tutorial will show you how to make an image jump out of frame using extraction tool and frames.

Full version of tutorial is at our site in HTML or PDF formats.