Mindfire has deep experience developing Photoshop and Illustrator plug-ins on Windows and Mac OS X. We describe some of these Illustrator/Photoshop plug-in project experiences below, and will be glad to share our expertise in detail with you.
Industry:
Graphics/Imaging
Technologies:
C++, Win32 SDK, MacOS API, Adobe Photoshop SDK
A filter plug-in to emulate various black and white films in the digital world, meant for Adobe Photoshop and Elements, for Windows and Mac. It produces better results than Photoshop's gray scale conversion by using propriety filtering algorithms. It contains visual histogram information. It is available in 16-bit color version as well. The Latest version is available for CS3 and Intel Mac.
Industry:
Graphics/Imaging
Technologies:
C++, Win32 SDK, Mac OS API, Adobe Photoshop SDK
Photoshop automation plug-in for Mac and Windows that provide batch processing of various photoshop plug-ins with the help of Photoshop's automation APIs.
Industry:
Graphics/Imaging
Technologies:
C++, wxWidgets, MacOS API, Adobe Photoshop SDK
This is a sophisticated Photoshop Plug-in that works like an eye exam to figure out precisely what is wrong with a photo and how to fix it. In about 15 seconds, it provides users with a corrected image, which can be fine-tune in 1% increments. It uses Pixel color correction based on statistically expanded image data. It is capable of handling 16 bit images as well.
It has simple but attractive UI and available on Mac and Windows both and is compatible with Corel PhotoPaint and Jasc PaintShop Pro as well.

Industry:
Graphics/Imaging
Technologies:
C++, wxWidgets, MacOS API, Adobe Photoshop SDK
Another amazing Photoshop plug-in from PhotoTune that instantly and accurately corrects skin color for human pictures based on race. It is far superior to any other program, when it comes to correcting skin color and not to mention the time saving. The adjustment panel provided is very powerful in its effects and can be easily controlled by layman users. The panel also provides controls for basic manual adjustment of brightness, saturation and dynamic range.
Industry:
Graphics/Imaging
Technologies:
C++, MFC, PowerPlant, Adobe PS SDK
Using the software made an inexperienced user can create complicated masks with few clicks and strokes.
Industry:
Publishing
Technologies:
C++, Adobe Photoshop SDK, ADM, XML
A multi-lingual plug-in for both Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator that manages documents at the central server. New documents can be created on the server. Existing documents can be opened, edited locally and then its new version can be saved back on the server. Changed documents can be saved under new name or finalized. The user has liberty to edit the documents from anywhere if he/she can connect to the server using Internet.
Industry:
Graphics & Imaging
Technologies:
Adobe Photoshop SDK
The requirement was for a Photoshop automation Plug-In to add another image as a new layer and automatically rotate and resize the new image to match with the older image. It also adjusts the opacity of the new image for desired level of blending. The result of the blending can be seen in the preview pane.
Industry:
Imaging
Technologies:
Photoshop SDK, Mac OS X
The project involved creation of an Adobe photoshop automation plugin. The automation widget uploaded processed images in the background to a predecided FTP location. It was a small effort and was quickly delivered. Client was really happy with the quick turnaround.
Industry:
Media
Technologies:
C++, Adobe Illustrator CS3
Developed an Adobe Illustrator CS3 plugin which has the following functionalities:
- Developed filter type plug-in in Adobe illustrator on both windows and mac
- Generated a pattern using 3 basic input arts with different sizes
- Designed our own algorithm to place the art within page boundaries
- Implemented the algorithm to generate the pattern with uniform distribution of art.
- SDK used: Adobe Illustrator cs3

Industry:
Publishing Software
Technologies:
Illustrator, Flex, XML, Web service
OPAL Content Connect is a custom Adobe Illustrator CS5 plugin which links text boxes in a packaging artwork file to field contents of a database via a web service. An alert will display when a discrepancy between the contents of the database and the content of the tagged text box occurs. Clicking the 'VALIDATE COPY' button will perform a series of validation checks and show failures against any field with a warning icon in the plugin field list.