Plugin Galaxy Changelog

What's new in Plugin Galaxy 3.13

Nov 14, 2022

Installation:
Installation support for Photoshop Elements 2022 & 2023 and Affinity Photo 2
The installation now deletes the registry keps that keep Photoshop Elements 2020-2023 from loading plugins that crashed 3 times.
Support for the MS Store version of Photoshop Elements 2022. Does not try to install into the WindowsApps folder anymore.

New in Plugin Galaxy 3.11 (Jul 18, 2018)

New in Plugin Galaxy 3.10c (Oct 24, 2017)

New in Plugin Galaxy 3.10 (Sep 6, 2017)

New in Plugin Galaxy 3.09 (Jan 4, 2016)

New in Plugin Galaxy 3.01 (Mar 6, 2015)

New in Plugin Galaxy 3 (Mar 6, 2015)

Renders up to twelve times faster by supporting multiple cores and hyperthreading. Some filters render only two (dual core), four (quad core) or six (hexa core) times faster.
Support for smart filtering and action recording
Filter Factory (FF) Support:
245 Filter Factory effects in 16 groups are included (some of which have never been available before)
Import and use 3000+ FF filters that are freely available on the web. You can also import .ffx files from Filters Unlimited, which use Filter Factory functions only.
Plugin Galaxy renders the filter effect with a higher quality than any other Filter Factory engine by using bicubic interpolation and floating point precision.
Stack multiple FF filters as effect layers and save them as a preset
Apply the FF filters to 16-bit images and use them in 64-bit applications
Blend the effects with the original image according to 20 different blending modes and adjust their brightness.
The Constant Size check box ensures that the filters produce the same effect independent of the image size.
The installation offers an option to deactivate the installation of the 245 default Filter Factory effects. Only use it when you reinstall Plugin Galaxy and want to keep your imported Filter Factory collection as it is.
Higher Effect Quality:
45% of all native Plugin Galaxy effects produce a much smoother result: The Breakfast, Edge Tool, Feedback, Grid & Glass, Synthesizer and Warp effect groups as well as the Alpha Tools > Linear and the three (Out)burst effects of the Bluuur group.
New Interpolation option on Prefs tab sheet for the Feedback, Grid & Glass and Warp effect groups. The default setting is "Bicubic". For a slightly less sharp but two times faster result choose "Bilinear". The "None" setting produces sharp but pixelated results (but still less pixelated than Plugin Galaxy 2).
No more line artifacts for the Shift, Feedback, Glass, Synthesizer and Warp effects
New & Improved Effects:
9 new presets
New effects
Noiseee > Anaglyph 3D effect
Edge Tool > Dotted effect
Bluuur > Outburst Shift (The old effect can still be activated with the Bubble check box.)
Two Page Curl effects were added
Improved effects
Bluuur > Outburst Blur: Improved effect, preview cross and three new sliders. The old look can still be achieved with the Bubble check box.
Bluuur > Full Burst Blur: Improved effect, preview cross and new Quality slider. The old look can still be achieved with the Bubble check box.
Breakfast > Flower: No more vertical line artifact
Grid & Glass > Bubble Glass: No more vertical line artifact with activated Radiate or Angulate check box
Synthesizer > Flower Power, DNS and Chaos: No more vertical line artifact
Zoom: The Interpolate check box now uses the interpolation method specified on the Prefs tab sheet
The Coolorize effects have better default slider values, which make them more useful.
Bug Fix: The Web check box of the Grid effects now show a correct effect at less than 100% zoom.
Bug Fix: No more error message for Cubic, Trans and Swirl filters of Warp group and the Circle filter of the Alpha Tools group.
User Interface Enhancements:
Minimum dialog size is 800 x 600 pixel now. Standard title bar and tab controls are used now. No more control flashing at start up.
Preview zoom up to 3200% plus Fit and 100% zoom buttons
New Skin feature that imitates the user interface of Lightroom, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and PaintShop Pro.
The Fast check box on the Prefs tab that deactivates interpolation during slider dragging, preview cross dragging and preview animation. This updates the preview faster and displays more frames per second.
Double clicking a slider label sets the default value of the slider
The last used filter of a certain group is selected again when switching back to the the group.
You can now switch between different effect layers from the arrow menu of the Effect tab sheet.
If an effect supports the preview cross, then a cross is added to the hand cursor.
The coordinates label below the preview is now available in all modes. Clicking on it display the menu. Previously it only worked when right clicking on it.
You can press the zero key to set the slider to zero in case the slider has the input focus.
Bug Fix: The Open button on the Preset tab sheet of Expert Mode appears again when switching back from Novice Mode.

New in Plugin Galaxy 2.01 (Mar 6, 2015)

New in Plugin Galaxy 2.0 (Mar 6, 2015)

General:
New installer that works under Windows Vista
Up to 450% larger dialog that can be enlarged to full screen.
All 21 plugins have been combined to one plugin which saves a lot of time when switching between effects. The effects of the previous plugins are selectable from the Group and FX combo boxes.
10 new effects were added and many effects have new features.
New Animation feature (known from Harrys Filters 3) for displaying animations with random slider values.
New Layers feature for applying multiple effects without leaving the plugin dialog
Renders two times faster than Version 1.x in average.
Support for 16bit images and greyscale images
Options for saving and opening preset files and 400 included presets.
You can now use Plugin Galaxy for batch processing with the new Cloak Mode.
New Blending mode feature which lets you blend the effect with the original image according to 20 different blending modes.
A new Brightness slider is now available for each effect.
Enhanced support for image layers with transparent areas. Many filters of Version 1.x added unwanted white areas in this case.
The preview now works correctly for selections. Previous versions showed the effect applied to whole image in the preview, which was not what you got after pressing OK.
A Help box that displays descriptions of each control when you move the cursor over it.
You can activate the XP or Vista theme for the plugin dialog on the Prefs tab sheet.
If the new Constant Size check box is activated, all effects now produce the same result if you apply them to different image sizes. In previous versions several effects produced a different result when applying them to different image sizes.
Each filters has its own settings by default. You can also have the same settings for each filter group with the "Settings per Group" check box from the Prefs tab sheet.
Dragging sliders now immediatelly updates the preview by default. You can deactivate this feaure with the "Instant Preview" check box from the Prefs tab sheet.
Calculation time for the preview and full image is displayed in the progress bar area.
The Filtering check box was renamed to "Auto Preview".
Alpha Tool:
Now supports image layers with transparent areas. In previous versions ugly white areas appeared.
The Angle effect now has a Rotate check box.
Breakfast:
The Eggs, Butter and Wall effects are rendered with a higher quality. The quality of the other effects is improved only slightly.
Bluuur:
Second slider for more effect variations. As a result the following effects were combined:
Radial Shift, Zoom Shift and LSD Shift were comined to Outburst Shift
Vertical Blur, Horizontal Blur and Square Blur were combined to Cross Blur
8 new effects: Min Shift, Motion Shift, Max Blur, Min Blur, Motion Blur, Full Blur, Full Burst Blur, Full Max Blur
Slider range has been extended from 32 to 64, 128 or 255 pixels (depending on the effect) to allows stronger blur effects
Preview calculation at less than 100% zoom is several times faster.
Outburst Blur is applied four times faster, Full Blur and Cross Blur render several times faster.
Some effects (Cross Shift, Motion Shift, Outburst Shift, Cross Blur and Full Blur) now supports image layers with transparent areas.
Coolorize:
There is a new Adjust filter for brightness and contrast adjustments.
The Twilight and Fade effects have a preview cross now for better adjustments.
Edge Tool:
New Splash Edge effect
New Smooth slider for creating smooth edge borders.
New Alpha check box for making the area behind the curl transparent for images on a layer. (In Version 1.5 this was done automatically, so you were not able to deactivate it.)
Second color box for creating colored edges (with the help of the Smooth slider).
Activating the Circle check box does not enlarge the edge shape anymore. As a result you do not need to readjust the edge size everytime you activate or deactivate the Circle check box.
The Width and Height sliders work with the same unit now. As a result the horizontal and vertical frame elements will have the same size for rectangular images if Width and Height have the same slider value.
With the new Prefs > Constant Size check box activated, the Edge Tool effects look the same when applied to images of different size.
Feedback:
All Feedback effects are rendered three times faster.
Soften check box for softening the output.
Now supports image layers with transparent areas. In previous versions ugly white areas appeared.
Fusion:
The effect of the previous Pop Art plugin was added to the Fusion group.
New Frequency slider for more effect variations.
The Diffuse effect now also works for the Pop Art filter.
Glass & Grid:
The Glass filters now supports image layers with transparent areas. In previous versions ugly white areas appeared.
With the new Prefs > Constant Size check box activated, the Glass effects look the same when applied to images of different size.
Nature:
Bug Fix: The Overall slider of the Star effect sometimes cut off a part of the start. This was fixed.
Mirror:
Now supports image layers with transparent areas. In previous versions ugly white areas appeared.
Noisee:
The Noisy Painting and Mud filters now supports image layers with transparent areas. In previous versions ugly white areas appeared.
Page Curl:
Bug Fix: The curl now renders correctly on images larger than 1024x768 pixel.
New Alpha check box for making the area behind the curl transparent for images on a layer. (In Version 1.5 this was done automatically, so you were not able to deactivate it.)
Rainbow:
The Invert slider was renamed to "Shift".
Synthesizer:
The value range of the Warp slider was inverted.
The Warp effect now supports image layers with transparent areas. In previous versions ugly white areas appeared.
Warp:
Now supports image layers with transparent areas. In previous versions ugly white areas appeared.
Zoom:
New Alpha check box for making the outside area transparent for images on a layer. (In Version 1.5 this was done automatically, so you were not able to deactivate it.)

New in Plugin Galaxy 1.50 (Mar 6, 2015)

General:
18 new filter effects and a new Page Curl plugin
Many of the old effects were improved
Small Fixes: Preview coordinates can now be set without having to activating the Radiate and Angulate checkboxes at first (except for the Glass plugin); The big-slider-knob-problem that occured for some of the plugins was fixed
Plugins:
Alpha Tool: If no alpha channel is present, the alpha mask is used to darken or colorize the image
Bluuur: Radial Shift, Zoom Shift, LSD Shift, Radial Blur, Zoom Blur and Outburst Blur work two times faster; At low slider values the blur effect is calculated correctly now; The preview calculation isn't interrupted after a few seconds.
Breakfast: new filters called "Butterfly", "Plate" and "Wall"; The Intensity slider has been renamed to "Zoom"; The Zoom slider has been renamed to "Complexity"
Coolorize: new filter called "RGB Saturation"
Cryptology: new filters called "Erode En/Decryption" and "Cross En/Decryption"
Edge Tool: 4 new effects: Cave Edge, Jungle Edge, Curved Edge; The Peaks Edge effect was replaced with the "Cutline Edge" effect; The edge can now be positioned anywhere on the image with a preview cross
Feedback: new "Quad Feedback" and "Tunnel Feedback" filters; The effects are calculated up to two times faster
Fusion: new "Diffuse", "Overlay" and "Expose" check boxes; The "Fusion" slider has been renamed to "Diffuse" and influences the new Diffuse effect, too
Glass: New "Rippled" effect
Noisee: New Overlay check box
PopArt: New Overlay check box
Rainbow: Overlay and Expose check boxes (instead of Positive and Negative) for better color effects
Star: new "Star Field" effect; Changing the color of the star(s) without affecting the background is possible now; Alpha check box now displays a black background if no alpha channel is available; the value range of the first four sliders has changed a bit; the Glow check box was renamed to Mutate and the Colorize check box was renamed to "Nova".
Synthesizer: new Blend and Warp features; two new filters called "Space Worm" and "Dragons Tail"
Warp 1/2: improved Shadow effect