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Andromeda Photography Plugins

The Andromeda Photography plugins are assembled into three collections: Artistic Screening Tools, Graphic Design Resources, and Photographic Tools and Lens Effects. They let you apply a range of special effects to your images, including unusual ones like reflecting a building in a pool of water. The vendor calls its Star plugin "the ultimate star design tool," as it can add single or multiple glints, sparks, and glows to create some stunning effects.

The vendor sometimes shuffles the pack and puts together an alternative set of plugins within each bundle. The current offering is:

Looking at just one of these volumes, Graphic Design Resources, indicates the wealth of effects that are available to the user in the entire collection. Velociraptor, for example, enables the user to create stylized motion trails that can Arc, Bounce, Cascade, Converge, Curve, Decline, Diminish, Jolt, Jitter, Loop, Spiral, Spring, Streak, Trail, or Wave.

Comment

Andromeda plugins can be used by wedding photographers and other professionals. They may not be the cheapest effects you can get, but there are certainly among the best. They give a polished, commercial "look" to certain imagery.

The DreamOptic, SoftFocus and StarLight lens effects in the new ScatterLight Lenses filter (Photographic Tools & Lens Effects) are particularly good.

Tech info

  • Plugs into: (Windows and Mac) Adobe Photoshop 5.5 and up; Elements 1.0 and up; and compatible editors
  • OS: Windows 95 onward; Mac OS X/9.x
  • Price level: Photographic Tools & Lens Effects Collection $265; Graphic Design Resources $299; Artistic Screening Tools $225

Andromeda Software

Founded in 1990, Andromeda Software is based in Westlake Village, California. Its founders and senior engineering staff are veterans of the digital imaging industry.


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