Digital Home Thoughts: OptikVerve Labs Releases Free Photoshop Plugin virtualPhotographer

"virtualPhotographer lets photographers with minimal knowledge of digital photo editing achieve professional results easily and quickly. Professional photographers and graphic artists will find the plug-in gives them exceptional control and best-quality results without spending hours with complex photo editing tools. The power of virtualPhotographer lies in its pre-programmed presets, over 50 one-click selections that instantly add photographic styles, and filter and darkroom techniques to a digital photo. The presets automatically apply combinations of film grain, color modification, B/W, soft focus, high contrast and many artistic effects to achieve the same professional-looking images that used to take hours of digital editing. A single preset in virtualPhotographer could involve 10 to 20 steps in a typical photo editing application. "



When I first downloaded this plugin, I though cool, but never expected to actually use it much. Well I've really played around with virtualPhotographer and I've have a blast with it. If you use a photo editor that supports Photoshop Plugins, you go ahead and download the free plugin and have fun. If you don't know much about all those alpha-channels, gaussian blurs and other tools, this plugin will let you get at these settings and create great looking effects.

You can see some great samples that people have created with this plugin in the Community section.