8bf Plugins - any recommendations?

[opsimathic]

Tanner has recently improved the handling Photoshop 8bf plugins. I need recommendations for plugins that have been used successfully with PhotoDemon. What are your favourites? Where did you obtain them? Thanks!

[hi5]

One man's trash is another man's treasure so it just depends. This page[1] lists a number of sites with plugins, many links still work, but a few are offline - in such cases you can use web.archive.org to try and download them. You have to pay attention to 32 v 64 bit, PD needs 32bit.

Some won't work at all, some 100% perfectly. Also many just partially, for example in plugins sometimes you can't select colours where you can set or select various colours to be used by the plugin which makes them a lot less useful - or when you apply the effect, PD crashes. Note that some of these plugins are very old (I think I saw some going back to the 90s early 00s) - be sure to experiment on test images.

[1] https://www.rw-designer.com/compatible-image-filters

One I just like is Flood http://www.flamingpear.com/older.html which works but it is shareware and I don't have a use case for it, but it's pretty.

One I'm looking for is a working drop shadow plugin: I've tried various, but they are either just button/bevel plugins or the drop shadow simply doesn't work such as in this case https://www.pluginfilters.com/photoswizzle/filter2.html