Digital Film Tools

Got a heads-up from DMN e-mail and thought I'd pass this along...

Digital Film Tools provides affordable yet HIGHLY desirable plug-ins to help you acheive a variety of effects in After Effects, Photoshop, Avid, Final Cut Pro, Shake and Discreet (the After Effects plug-ins also work in Premiere Pro, since the applications share a common plug-in architecture). I would try to give more information, but you're just going to have to check it out for yourself:
http://www.digitalfilmtools.com/index2.htm

Most of these effects can be acheived somewhat easily already in the supported applications (things like film look and such are sometimes just a matter of color manipulation). So maybe you would ask, "why pay for something I could probably already achieve on my own with the software I already paid for?" My answer to that is this....do you really want to spend all day figuring it out yourself? Do you really want to re-invent the wheel? Technology is your friend, and this technology will save you time....LOTS of time. Some nice guys in LA figured this out, made some plug-ins, and sell 'em on the cheap....take advantage of their hard work and be happier for it!

Very good ideas in these plug-ins....the "Light!" effect for Photoshop is especially creative. One of their newest offerings for Photoshop is "Snap." This one's used for isoloating objects in an image by means of selecting foreground and background elements. After that, the plug-in does some rough math and then you fine tune your selection area.

Free demo downloads available on their site. Check 'em out, but be sure to drool-proof your keyboard first.