I've listed here, in alphabetical order by FX description, what seems to be the most sought after plugins on the planet. The effect you're looking for is listed on the left, followed by it's actual name and where you can find it at. If you've got a unique or unusual plugin, let me know and I will list it here.
| Name of Effect | Actual Plugin | Part of Plugin Suite |
Where to Get It |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3D Related | Three-D Luxe | none | Andromeda Software |
| Aged Film (use Old Movie) | Old Movie | none | Van der Lee |
| Brush Styles, painterly kinds | Deep Paint | none | Right Hemisphere |
| Impressionist | Image Composer | Microsoft | |
| Camouflage | Camouflage | none | Van der Lee |
| Engraved Style using contour lines (like some newspapers use) | Cutline | none | Andromeda Software |
| Engraver | none | Panopticum LLC | |
| GIF, Optimize | WebVise Totality | WebVise Totality | Auto FX |
| Glass, Looking Thru | Glass | Plugin Galaxy | PiCo - Plugin Commander |
| Grid Lines (those tightly spaced thin lines) | Grid Maker | none | Gregory Paret |
| Halftone | Halftone | none | Van der Lee |
| Harmonix | Harmonix | none | Van der Lee |
| JPG, Optimize | WebVise Totality | WebVise Totality | Auto FX |
| Lightning | Lightning | Xenofex | Alien Skin |
| Moiré, remove | Remove Moiré | Eye Fidelity Tools | DVP Technologies |
| Mosaic, circular and linear | Repligator | none | Repligator |
| Old Movie | Old Movie | none | Van der Lee |
| Panorama | Panorama | none | Helmut Dersch |
| Page Curl | Page Curl Page Curl |
none none |
Mark's Stuff AV Bros. Page Curl |
| Puzzle | Puzzle | Xenofex | Alien Skin |
| Quilt Squares | Grid | Plugin Galaxy | PiCo - Plugin Commander |
| Rainbow | Rainbow | Plugin Galaxy | PiCo - Plugin Commander |
| Red Eye, Remove | Remove Red Eye | PhotoDeluxe | Adobe |
| Remove White | Remove White | none | Mark's Stuff |
| Search, for stock images | Image Grabber | none | Random Eye Technologies |
| SGI Viewer | SGI Plugin | none | Jagannathan Sampath |
| Snow FX | SnowScape | none | Martijn van der Lee |
| Star-like Pattern | Star Star |
Plugin Galaxy Eye Candy 3.0 |
PiCo - Plugin Commander Alien Skin |
| Star, Constellation | Constellation | Xenofex | Alien Skin |
| Television Screen FX | Television Horizontal Grain |
Xenofex none |
Alien Skin Simple Filters |
| Text, Circle | PhotoGraphics | none | Extensis |
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