One of the main problems with HDR-type post-processing is that you can easily end up with glowing haloes around your subject matter. Topaz Labs has come up with Topaz Detail 2 to address this problem. Topaz Detail v2 is a major update from v1 that triples the processing speed, sports a slick new user interface, and includes some new processing features. Detail specializes in sharpening and detail enhancement without creating artifacts or halos. Its underlying algorithms employ the most recent advances in detail enhancement technology to accomplish this. Sharpen without oversharpening, accentuate details without increasing noise, and add dynamism to photos without making them look fake.

Nik Software Color Efex Pro 3.1 filters are the leading photographic filters for digital photography. The award-winning Color Efex Pro 3.1 filters are widely used by many of today's professional photographers around the world to save time and get professional level results. Whether you choose the Complete Edition, Select, or Standard Edition, you get traditional and stylizing filters that offer virtually endless possibilities to enhance and transform images quickly and easily.
Patented U Point technology provides the ultimate control to selectively apply enhancements without the need for any complicated masks, layers or selections. Control color, light and tonality in your images and create unique enhancements with professional results. With 52 filters and over 250 effects found in Color Efex Pro 3.1 you can perform high quality retouching, color correction and endless creative enhancements to your photographs.

Eye Candy 6 is a set of 30 Photoshop filters that elegantly handle a wide range of design tasks, from slick Web interfaces to tasteful logos to spectacular titles. Realistic simulation of natural phenomena gives beautifully detailed results. Eye Candy’s simple interface makes it easy, saving you loads of time in Photoshop. Effects now adapt to your current image size, making for less slider adjusting. Over 1500 carefully designed presets are organized into categories for quick browsing.

Alien Skin Blow Up can enlarge your images in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements with better results and with more functionality than competing products. The interface is straightforward and easy to use, but you might have a hard time justifying the cost against the printed results unless you do a large volume of extreme enlargements such as poster size prints and larger. Blow Up 2's new features were primarily based on user feedback, keeping Blow Up 2 ahead of the competition in image enlargement software.

Toonit! Photo for Photoshop creates cartoon-like images from photographs automatically, while still allowing artists to customise the cartoon with different paint styles, shading and outlines. Version 2.5 expands ToonIt!’s cartoon outline effect with three new styles: Woodcut Outlines, Conte Outlines and Scratchboard Outlines. There is also a new colour blur option, and improved interface and new cartoon presets available in the update. ToonIt!