Everyone is going to organize their favorite Photoshop plug-ins but I think all of use are always on the lookout for some new styles/effects to try out. Redfield is a name that has become synonymous with nice plug-ins like Water Ripples and Jama 3D so by all means, go to their website and see the variety of great effects plug-ins they offer for manipulating pics. I decided to touch the surface by looking at Fractalius, a great add-on that creates unusual effects based on what they call 'extraction of hidden fractal texture' within your image. It converts photos rather easy with very little adjustments to create effective illustrative qualities to an image (see the above sample) and allows you to take original artwork and add an airbrush quality to it similar to the type work you used to see painted on vans, with vibrant linear highlights and sparkles of light overlaying the image. Redfield even offers a few free plug-ins so stop by and take advantage of these handy additions to your Photoshop plug-in repertoire.
