Photoshop Tools

Tool

Author

Description

Color Picker Shortcut In Photoshop CS3 and CS4

Mathias Scheutz

Allows you to set up a hotkey for the Color Picker in CS3/CS4 (CS5 supports it natively).

Painter's Wheel HSV Color Picker for Photoshop CS4+

Len White

A Flash widget that customizes the color picker into a Painter-style color wheel.

Custom Flash Panels

Zoltan Erdokovy

Two Flash-based UI panels for CS4 that aggregate commonly-used functions into icons and buttons.

CategoryTools#Tablet_Utilities

(various)

Wiki list of tweaks for tablets and Cintiqs.

PS CS5: The Undo/Layer Dance

Will 'sinistergfx' Fuller

Undo can cause the wrong layer to be edited by accident, because it stores the action of switching between layers as another Undo step. The script prevents this from occurring.

Tool

Author

Cost

Description

Normal Map Rotate

Robert Kist

Free

Rotate a selection in a normal map by any arbitrary angle.

nDo Normal Creation Toolkit

Teddy Bergsman

Donationware

Convert artwork or photos into a NormalMap, many options available. Windows/Mac, 32bit/64bit.

NVIDIA Photoshop Normal Map Filter

NVIDIA

Free

Convert a grayscale image into a NormalMap or DuDvMap, many options available. Windows 32bit and 64bit.

PhilipsActions

Philip 'PhilipK' Klevestav

Free

Five actions: Normal map overlay fix with the blue channel preserved, Normal map overlay fix with the blue channel killed, Flatten to new layer, Normalize, Sharpen. See the Polycount thread Material Tutorials: 8 Step By Step Tutorials and General Tips.

Xnormal Photoshop filters

Santiago 'jogshy' Orgaz

Donationware

Five filters: Dilation (see EdgePadding), Height2Normals (see NormalMap), Height2Occlusion (see AmbientOcclusionMap), Normalize normal map, Normals2Cavity.

Offset All Visible Layers PS7/CS/CS2 script

Emrah BAŞKAYA

Free

Offset always halfway, regardless of your canvas resolution. Works on all visible layers at once.

HalfWrap, LeftRightWrap & TopBottomWrap filters

Sandy Blair

Free

Offset always halfway, regardless of canvas resolution. Does not work in 64bit.

Tool

Author

Formats

Description

qSave

Ariel Chai

BMP, DDS, PNG, TGA

A set of scripts that each save the visible layers to a single image file. Each script allows a custom output filename, and can be bound to its own hotkey. DDS support is currently only for ARGB 8888 format.

Photoshop DDS Exporter

Eric N. Evans

DDS

Scripted interface provides a front-end for saving out DDS files from Photoshop CS3+ using the very fast command line NVIDIA Texture Tools. It was created as a work-around for the fact that the NVIDIA plugin did not work with 64-bit versions of Photoshop (however, it does now).

NVIDIA Photoshop DDS Export/Import

NVIDIA

DDS

Many options and sub-formats available, MIP filtering controls, can convert to normal maps. Support for 32bit and 64bit Photoshop.

JD Texture Exporter

James Deschenes

JPG, PNG, TDL, TGA, TIF,

Two scripts that automate saving layer groups into separate bitmaps; either using a dialog (JD Texture Exporter) or without (JD Selected Texture Exporter).

d1v save archive

Andrew 'd1ver' Maximov

JPG, TGA

Two scripts export multiple TGA files from a single PSD, using Group naming conventions, saving either in TGA or JPG format. To download the scripts, open the JPG attachment with an archive program like Winrar.

Export scripts

Mark Verkerk

TGA

These scripts export multiple TGA files from a single PSD, using Group naming conventions, with an optional resize amount for each Group. See the Polycount thread.

vTools: Scripts for Photoshop

James 'HarlequiN' Taylor

TGA

A set of scripts, including TGA export from named Groups, cavity mapping from a normal map, create hexagonal and plasma patterns, etc. See the Polycount thread.