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Photoshop Version?

MichaelD

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Can Nvidia's plugins be used with Photoshop Elements 5.0?

Unless I win the lottery, there's no way I am going to plunk down $600 - $1000 dollars for the full version but I can handle $40 -$50 bucks.

This version seems to do everything else I would ever need for Flight Sim texturing purposes.

-Michael.
 
I think you can use some plugins in both, but definately not all as there are features only available in Photoshop.
 
The bump map plug-in works with photoshop Elements 5.

My copy of Photoshop runs on a Mac and the plugins don't work on Macs; so I use Elements om my Windows machine to run the plugin.
 
Another possibility is to use a program called "Crazy Bump"

I find it a LOT easier than the nvidia plugins.

It will make bump, normal,occlusion, etc maps from your basic texture and save them directly as DDS files. You can adjust the settings in the program, and you can have a preview of how it looks...
 
And, before we forget, the freeware program "The Gimp" has a very usable bumpmap filter. It is very easy to use and with a little fiddling with the simple parameters makes very good "bumps".

Paul
 
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