PhotoFiltre is a nice graphics program, that I use as a free alternative to Photoshop. It has many nice features, such as the ability to overlay text over images, for header design.

It also has a nice range of free plug-ins - such as mirror image to name one.

PhotoFiltre has been produced by a French Guy - and is a pretty impressive and stable program. Some of the help files for the plug-ins are in French but installing a plug-in is easy.

Here’s how to install a PhotoFiltre plug-in:

Download the plug-in file from the PhotoFiltre Plug-in Page

Unzip it using Winzip

Extract the files into the plug-in directory in your Photofiltre installation

On the View menu, click plug-ins bar and the available plug-ins will show on the left hand sidebar as little icons

Now that’s cool.

You can do a lot of special effects with PhotoFiltre - so for a cool graphics program for nix at least check it out. I have used it for many of my projects and only discoved the PhotoFiltre plug-in page today - hence my post.

I’ve used the PhotoFiltre Screen Capture Plug-in to Produce the Following Pic:

It’s a little small but you get the idea!

Heres another neat trick I did with the Photofiltre plug-in: looks like Google Ads Huh? Well, this is a screen capture. How come it’s so neat? Because the screen capture plug-in is smart - you can adjust settings to capture various objects around the page or the whole page or the whole page with browser. It’s a very cool tool.