Virtual Painter - is accessible and convenient program for turning photos into paintings, and creating beautiful artistic effects. It allows you to simulate watercolor, pencil drawing, cubism, mosaic, wood-burning and even the illustrations in the style of the comics! You can also choose an original canvas for painting and use the effect of a relief surface. Make the complete picture can be created by adding stylish frames.

Five excellent Photoshop plugins from Nik Soft

Curvemeister is a plug-in for Photoshop and Elements. It will help you use color curves to improve the colors of your digital photo images. Get ready for curves on steroids, packed with features designed to make your images look better, and accomplish this with less effort and more fun. Curvemeister is a Windows Photoshop and Elements plugin that greatly enhances the familiar curves interface. It supports a rich set of features that makes color correction faster and more fun for beginners as well as professionals.

Curvemeister is a plug-in for Photoshop and Elements. It will help you use color curves to improve the colors of your digital photo images. Get ready for curves on steroids, packed with features designed to make your images look better, and accomplish this with less effort and more fun. Curvemeister is a Windows Photoshop and Elements plugin that greatly enhances the familiar curves interface. It supports a rich set of features that makes color correction faster and more fun for beginners as well as professionals.

Mask Pro 4.1 is the premiere, award-winning plug-in for masking in Photoshop. The latest version of Mask Pro 4.1supports masking 8-bit and 16-bit digital images in both Photoshop CS2 and Photoshop CS3. Several new "Show Me How" video tutorials are built directly into Mask Pro 4.1 so you can get visual training quickly. No other masking or selection tool gives you the professional level results like Mask Pro 4.1.

LightMachine is a plugin for performing all kinds of light adjustments in photos. It combines shadow/highlight, virtual lighting and color-based correction tools for performing sophisticated corrections without the need for time-consuming selections and layer stacks. It lets you selectively correct photos taken under bad light conditions or with inadequate camera settings and achieve results that rival photos taken under the best circumstances.