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Welcome to my article about great entertainment images on the Web. In these articles, I try to point you all toward great sites that have lots of entertainment images.
Even though the image surfing hasn't been the best lately and I'm a little under the weather right now, I'd never neglect my faithful readers! I'll have some great image links in the next article, but this time I'd like to let you know about a truly amazing piece of software I recently found out about. If you're a regular reader, you'll know that I'm a big fan of Adobe Photoshop, the best image editor ever. Well, believe it or not, Photoshop can still be greatly improved, and the cool people at SPG Graphics have come up with the best Photoshop plugin ever! SPG Web Tools is the only true "must have" Photoshop plugin I've seen! It does so many amazing things, they're all listed below. As you'll see, it's a really amazing piece of software! Learn more about SPG Web Tools, or download a demo from their site.
SPG Web Tools:
Image Browser
This is a good image browser, but Thumbs Plus is still the best. Cool if you don't have Thumbs Plus.
WEB Savers
An on-the-fly image compressor. Just don't compress them too much, they'll look like crap. Does a very good job, and is easy to use. Debabelizer Pro is still the master of compression, but it's more for professionals, and more expensive overall.
GIF Animators
A good basic gif animator if you don't already have one.
Animated GIF Player
The Animated GIF Player plays animated GIF files, and can be opened as stand-alone or linked to a particular GIF Animator. Photoshop has always needed this ability.
3D Text Renderer
The 3D Text Renderer creates stand-alone 3D text images and adds 3D text to existing images. Cool3D does it better, but this does a nice job.
3D Text Animator
Again, Cool3D is better but this could save you from having to buy a separate program.
3D WEB Object Renderer
The 3D WEB Object Renderer creates 3D buttons, bullets, separator bars, and objects for use on your web site. Also adds 3D objects to existing images. Cool if you don't want to bother getting a full 3D program. If you're not heavy into 3D (I'm not) this should do the job!
3D WEB Object Animator
Again, saves you the trouble of buying and learning a 3D graphics program!
FlareFX Renderer
The FlareFX Renderer renders a Flare scene (lens flares, stars and space effects, explosions, lightning and electricity, smoke and gas clouds, glows, and more) over top of canvas images. The Flare scene elements include the Flare and its Refractions. This is amazing and worth getting the plugin just for this! Fantastic!
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