Freebies Guide

Freebies
Flaming Pear Software
What they do What they do

How to install The Freebies are plug-ins for Photoshop. They change images in simple ways
and you can use them free of charge.
Quick start
Other plug-ins
Questions
How to install
Illustrated installation instructions are online at www.flamingpear.com/faq.html .
To use this software, you need to install it into Photoshop.
Just drag the plug-in filter into the folder where Photoshop expects to find it. On
OS X, it will be similar to Applications/Adobe Photoshop/Plug-ins.
On Windows, it will be similar to C:/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop/

Plug-ins.
You must restart Photoshop before it will notice new plug-ins.
The plug-in is now installed. To use it, open any image and select an area. From
the menus, choose Filter > Flaming Pear > [name of plug-in].
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Quick Start
Most of these plug-ins do just one effect
and have no controls.
Here are some example effects that you

can do. Open a favorite picture for these
examples -- you won’t see anything if
you start with a blank canvas. Select part
of the picture, and invoke a plug-in.
original image
Tachyon
Tachyon inverts the the bright and dark
areas of your picture, but does not
change the hues. Ordinary inversion
would change blue to yellow, for example.
ChromaSolarize
ChromaSolarize combines the Tachyon
effect with solarization.
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Pixel Trash
Produces a blocky, garish look like the
most primitive graphics of 1982. Click the
dice to see different effects.
Demitone 25
Demitone 50
Two kinds of halftone patterns that
include shades of grey.
Swap Red & Blue
Swap Red & Green
Swap Green & Blue

These filters work on RGB images – those with
three channels of color: red, green, and blue.
By swapping data between channels, they
transform color, changing the picture’s
chromatic harmonies in useful ways.
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Sphere Warp A
Sphere Warp B
These bend square tiles so they can

texture-map a sphere without a pinch at
the poles.
You will probably want to use two copies

of the warped tile side-by-side to make
an equirectangular sphere map. no warp
Sphere Warp A
Sphere Warp A
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Gray from Red
Gray from Green
Gray from Blue

These copy one color channel into both
other channels.
RGB->HSL
HSL->RGB
RGB->HSL takes a normal image with its

red, green, and blue color channels and
replaces these with hue, saturation, and
luminance respectively. Photoshop still
thinks the image is RGB, so the colors will
look bizarre. HSL->RGB changes the
image back.
RGB->Lab
Lab->RGB
Like RGB->HSL, but for the Lab color

space.
L is luminance, a is red/green, and b is

blue/yellow.
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Vitriol
Vitriol changes colors’ contrast as if
viewed through colored glass, but without
tinting the image.
Imagine you want to use black-and-white

film to take a spooky picture of a
landscape. You could make the sky
unnaturally dark by placing a yellow glass
filter over the lens; this will make the blue
sky very dark, while the appearance of the
green landscape is affected very little.
To produce this effect with Vitriol, set

Photoshop’s foreground color to the glass
color.
The effect is clearest on vividly coloured

areas. Apply repeatedly to intensify the
result.
Kyoto Color
Kyoto Color changes color using a Hue/
Luminance/Saturation color space, but it’s
not the same HLS color space built into
Photoshop. The Kyoto space produces
more lifelike results for massive hue
changes.
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Veins
Draws a green contour, a blue distance
map, and red ridges.
Rule 30
Draws the rule 30 cellular automaton
starting from a random state.
Make Cube Tile
Make Iso Cube Tile
Make Cube Tile takes a square image and

modifies it so that six tiles can seamlessly
cover a sphere. Flexify can use these tiles
as input.
Make Iso Cube Tile preserves symmetry at

the cost of a more warped appearance on
the sphere.
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Zombie
Revives the undead. Best results arise
from portraits showing eyes and teeth.
Zephyr
Produces colour haze.
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Circle to Square
Square to Circle
Warp global shape, preserve local shape.
Quicker and easier than a morph.
Ornament
Ornament takes a photo of a mirrored ball
and unwraps the reflection into a form
called an equirectangular panorama.
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Hyperbolic Disc
Hyperbolic Square
These can turn a square seamless tile into
a 4,8 hyperbolic tessellation.
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The following plug-ins only operate on layers with a transparency channel. In
these examples the strawberry was in a different layer from the background.
Solidify A, B, and C
Solidify turns an image layer entirely 100%
opaque. It reveals partially transparent
areas, and can even help repair the
corrupted transparency channel that some
paint programs occasionally produce. It’s
also good for quickly filling in missing
regions of a panorama.
Solidify A softly blurs the solid part into

the transparent region. Solidify B smears
only the outer edge for a harder look.
Solidify C gives the smoothest, most
uniform result.
Ghost
Ghost turns an image layer into a
semitransparent picture made entirely of
black pixels. It produces a smoked-glass
effect that’s hard to produce by hand.
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AntiGhost
AntiGhost turns a layer’s transparency
values into shades of grey.
TransLine
TransTone
TransLine makes every second scanline
transparent. TransTone is similar, but
turns a 50% pattern of pixels transparent.
This can be useful for transparent GIFs.
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Other plug-ins
Flaming Pear Software has more complex filters available here. They all come
with a free trial period, after which they can be purchased online or off.
Questions
The software, documentation, and supporting materials are made by Flaming
Pear Software. Answers to common technical questions appear on our support
page, and free updates appear periodically on the download page.
For bug reports and technical questions, please write to

[email protected] .
©2018 Flaming Pear Software
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Flaming Pear Software

What they do What they do

To use this software, you need to install it into Photoshop.

On Windows, it will be similar to C:/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop/

You must restart Photoshop before it will notice new plug-ins.

Here are some example effects that you

Swap Red & Blue

Swap Red & Green

Swap Green & Blue

These bend square tiles so they can

You will probably want to use two copies

Gray from Green

Gray from Blue

RGB->HSL takes a normal image with its

Like RGB->HSL, but for the Lab color

L is luminance, a is red/green, and b is

Imagine you want to use black-and-white

To produce this effect with Vitriol, set

The effect is clearest on vividly coloured

Make Cube Tile

Make Iso Cube Tile

Make Cube Tile takes a square image and

Make Iso Cube Tile preserves symmetry at

Solidify A softly blurs the solid part into

For bug reports and technical questions, please write to

©2018 Flaming Pear Software

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