http://www.vanderlee.com Plug-ins for Photoshop Copyright 2026 Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:06:21 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.vanderlee.com http://www.vanderlee.com/rssicon.gif AlphaToys™ released VanDerLee™ released version 1.0 of the AlphaToys Photoshop™ plug-in. AlphaToys is a collection of 16 different filters which deal with the transparency in images. Graphics applications typically provide a lengthy set of tools to deal with the color of pixels, but rarely do they provide similar tools to change the transparency, or alpha channel, of image. AlphaToys bridges this gap by providing those same common tools, but allowing them to wor... http://www.vanderlee.com/news.html?news=20090612_at100.html http://www.vanderlee.com/news.html?news=20090612_at100.html Graphics Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:00:00 +0000 Halftone™ 2.2 released VanDerLee™ released version 2.2 of Halftone which adds many exciting new features. Most notably are the new "source modes" and "grid layout" features. The addition of new source modes allow you to use a gradient, spotlight or solid source besides the familiar source image mode. These new source modes safe you the time by sparing you the trouble of creating these common source images yourself and also provides a me... http://www.vanderlee.com/news.html?news=20090516_ht220.html http://www.vanderlee.com/news.html?news=20090516_ht220.html Graphics Mon, 18 May 2009 10:55:00 +0000 FilterOptix™ 1.0 released Just before the year ends, VanDerLee™ releases a new plug-in; FilterOptix. FilterOptix replaces a large number of photographic lens filters with software versions. This means you can shoot first, ask questions later! With FilterOptix, you'll never have to drag along those large sets of filters; you can apply everything you need afterwards, at home. Don't waste time picking the perfect filter for a job, then waste even more time screwing... http://www.vanderlee.com/news.html?news=20081230_fo100.html http://www.vanderlee.com/news.html?news=20081230_fo100.html Graphics Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:00:00 +0000 Survey finished The VanDerLee™ 2008 website survey is finished and the survey form is closed for further entries.The winner of our grand prize, the full VanDerLee bundle consisting of our Halftone™, OldMovie™ and UnPlugged™-X products, will be announced shortly. The winner will be chosen randomly amongst all survey entries. The winner will recieve an e-mail regarding her/his prize, so keep an eye on your e-mail box! http://www.vanderlee.com/news.html?news=20081101_survey_finished.html http://www.vanderlee.com/news.html?news=20081101_survey_finished.html Graphics Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:00:00 +0000 Halftone™ 2.1 released VanDerLee™ released the latest version Halftone today. This new version includes a wealth of new features and improvements that make possible new and exciting effects. Opacity lets you create partially transparent shapes that overlap, great for artistic effects. The new Anti-alias option removes the smooth edges of shapes to create a pure black and white result, ideally suited for printing. Fifteen new shapes have been added, all designed for practi... http://www.vanderlee.com/news.html?news=20080202_ht210.html http://www.vanderlee.com/news.html?news=20080202_ht210.html Graphics Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:00:00 +0000 Mixing plug-ins without guessing work A big problem with applying multiple filters to a layer is that if the end-result didn't turn out quite right, you can do it all over again. Today VanDerLee™ releases the latest version of their UnPlugged™-X plug-in which aims to fix this problem. UnPlugged-X™ is a collection of over 100 filter effects combined into a single window. By putting all those effects together, you gain advantages not possible if the effects w... http://www.vanderlee.com/news.html?news=20070718_01_upx2168.html http://www.vanderlee.com/news.html?news=20070718_01_upx2168.html Graphics Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:00:00 +0000 All plug-ins updated for improved Vista™ compatibility MicroSoft™ Windows™ Vista introduced a number of incompatibilities with our range of plug-ins. Luckily, these are obscure and most of our users have not had any problems upgrading to any of the versions Vista. Nonetheless, we've updated all our plug-ins to solve a number of these problems. If you have encounter any issues with our plug-ins in Windows Vista™, please download the most recent ver... http://www.vanderlee.com/news.html?news=20070718_02_vista.html http://www.vanderlee.com/news.html?news=20070718_02_vista.html Graphics Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:00:00 +0000 The main enhancement of this upgrade is the newly added ability to use user-customized shapes. The upgrade also includes changes to increase performance and quality of output. Custom shapes can be provided as Windows™ bitmap (.BMP) images. Shapes can be of any size and may include partially transparent areas. They can be rotated and scaled like the shapes generated by Halftone™ itself. A wide range of custom shapes is included with Halftone, demonstrating the possibilitie... http://www.vanderlee.com/news.html?news=ht200.html http://www.vanderlee.com/news.html?news=ht200.html Graphics Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Version 1.24 of Halftone™ offers a wealth of new and useful changes to the previous version. Most notably, Halftone now supports 16-bit color depth for all color modes supported; RGB, Grayscale and Duotone. Even Anti-alias has been updated to match 16-bit color depth images. A new scale mechanism, using Dots Per Inch and Lines Per Inch settings replaces the old "Scale" control. The benefit of this is complete predictability up to a printing press whilst remaining ... http://www.vanderlee.com/news.html?news=ht124.html http://www.vanderlee.com/news.html?news=ht124.html Graphics Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 With the release of NightVision, all of our plug-ins now sport a new, standardized, user interface. New specific for NightVision is the "Delete" button, which comes with the standard user interface and a new feature for professional users; 16-bit support for RGB, Grayscale and Duotone images.  http://www.vanderlee.com/news.html?news=nv103.html http://www.vanderlee.com/news.html?news=nv103.html Graphics Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:00:00 +0000