Best Free Photoshop Plugin: Virtual Photographer by Optik Verve Labs
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Best Free Photoshop Plugin!!!
There are many free Photoshop plugins that provide professional looking photo effects but Virtual Photographer by Optik Verve Labs stands out because of its ease of use, versatility and quality. I have used it many times myself and no, I am not a paid endorser :) just a fan of this great plugin.
Virtual Photographer can produce high quality, professional photographic styles to your digital images, with just a few clicks via a very user friendly interface. The best feature of the plugin is the presets which offer a wide variety of effects which can be then tweaked if further customization is desired.
Also compatible with Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro, Photo-Paint and other popular imaging applications.
On the following pages I will demonstrate some of the features of Virtual Photographer with my own photo the way I like to use this great free Photoshop plugin.
The plugin can be applied to all genres of photos from fashion to landscape to still life, etc. Let’s use Virtual Photographer on a pleasant example: a head shot of a Fijian model.
This is the original image:
All Virtual Photographer Plugin Settings
- Ambiance, Bright Shade, Disposable Effects of Virtual Photographer
- Anvril, Black and White, Blue Tone Effects of Virtual Photographer
- Brownie, Character, Classic Effects of Virtual Photographer
- Concord, Copper, Cyanide Effects of Virtual Photographer
- Diffuse, Dramatic, Fashion Effects of Virtual Photographer
- Dreamy, Faded, Fall Colors Effects of Virtual Photographer
- Fast Process, Glamour, Halo Effects of Virtual Photographer
- Flashback, Glamour, Hard Steel Effects of Virtual Photographer
- High Key, Hollywood, Moonlit Effects of Virtual Photographer
- Landscape, Less Tungsten, Mountain Effects of Virtual Photographer
- Natural Portrait, Photocopy, Radiant Effects of Virtual Photographer
- Newspaper, Old Newspaper, Paparazzi Effect of Virtual Photographer
- Reminiscing, Rosy Outlook, Steel Effects Virtual Photographer
- Romance, Shoebox, Sixties Slide Effects of Virtual Photographer
- Satin Steel, Sepia, Shoebox Effects of Virtual Photographer
- Slight Grain, Snap, Spice Effects of Virtual Photographer
- Spooky, Still Life, Still Life 2 Effects of Virtual Photographer
- Sulphur, Trendsetter Effects of Virtual Photographer
- Sunset, Transparency Effects of Virtual Photographer
