Hi-Spot creates high contrast black and white photos. It will not just convert your images into the standard shades of grey, it will automatically higher the contrast and produce a more dramatic sense of lighting in your scene. Much like the old classic B&W photos you may have seen in your family albums. Give your photos that ancient sepia look or desired monochrome tint.

G-Force creates traditional monochromatic grain effects. It produces results similar to using fast B&W camera film, allowing more control than the standard noise filters included with most image-editors. Give your photos back some of that artistic texture which seems to be sadly missing these days! Ideal for both landscape scenes or portraits.

Techni-X bleaches out most of the mid-tone greys, leaving crisp dark blacks and bright clean whites. It will produce clear B&W images with limited tones which are suitable for cheap reproduction via the office photocopier or when published in newsprint, as these methods normally loose image definition when trying to reproduce standard colour photographs.

NightScope adds a basic night-vision effect to your images. It first removes all colour from the picture and gives a very slight blur to indicate the camera is trying hard to focus in a low-light situation.

Pseudo-IR produces a similar look when using traditional B&W infra-red film. It is not an exact match but will provide you with a quick and easy way to re-create the effect digitally using your standard colour photographs.

SkyGrad is for tinting the sky area of your photographs. Ideal if you need to change the mood of your scene, brighten-up a dull day or make a darker overcast sky for dramatic effect. The filter will overlay a coloured gradient from the top of your image fading to transparent at the bottom. You can specify the colour of the tint via three RGB sliders and adjust the brightness with the exposure setting.

BW-Plus quickly turns your colour images into greyscale, but with the added option of using a coloured optical lens filter as you would in traditional B&W photography. The different colours will change the tonal range during the greyscale conversion : for example, a red filter will lighten the red, magenta and yellow areas plus darken the green, blue and cyan in the photo.

FastFix will help you quickly access the most common image enhancement controls though one easy-to-use dialog. A simple but surprisingly useful filter that will help you fix many of your common photographic problems.

System Requirements

    XP, Vista or Windows 7
    512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
    8.8MB of hard disk space for installation
    800 x 600 screen resolution
    Adobe Photoshop 6.0 or higher
    or Photoshop Elements 3,0 or higher
    or other plug-in compatible software
    (32-bit host applications only)

Installation
Make sure you select your Photoshop (or other host) Plug-Ins folder and configure your host to look in that folder (if necessary). Then restart your graphics app and the new effects should appear somewhere in the filter menu. This is the basic procedure for installing plug-ins. However, some hosts have slight variations so for more details please read the documentation that came with your graphics program.

Whats New :
Updates: official site does not provide any info about changes in this version