Pixel Bender Toolkit 2.5 Plugin for Photoshop (Win/Mac) + PDF Guide | 143 MB

Pixel Bender technology delivers a common image and video processing infrastructure which provides automatic runtime optimization on heterogeneous hardware. You can use the Pixel Bender kernel language to implement image processing algorithms (filters or effects) in a hardware-independent manner. The Pixel Bender graph language is an XML-based language for combining individual pixel-processing operations (kernels) into more complex Pixel Bender filters. The Pixel Bender Toolkit includes the Pixel Bender kernel language and graph language, the Pixel Bender Toolkit IDE (an integrated development environment for Pixel Bender), sample filters, and documentation.

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Important note



In certain installation scenarios, the Pixel Bender Toolkit 2.1 installer introduced an issue which prevents users from successfully uninstalling Pixel Bender Toolkit 2.1 or updating to newer versions of Pixel Bender Toolkit 2, such as Pixel Bender Toolkit 2.5. To resolve this problem, follow the steps in the Pixel Bender release notes before downloading and installing Pixel Bender Toolkit 2.5.



What's new in version 2.5



The Pixel Bender Toolkit now includes a new visual Graph Editor that allows you to manipulate a graph structure. The text-based Graph Editor, which allows you to edit the code directly, is still available as well.



This update to the Pixel Bender Toolkit addresses many bug fixes especially in the areas of user interface, Flash Player preview, and Pixel Bender kernel and graph processing and rendering.



Pixel Bender release notes



Get started with the Pixel Bender Toolkit and learn how to create and run your first filter.



Pixel Bender Plug-in for Photoshop CS5



Download the Pixel Bender Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop CS5 for 32-bit and 64-bit on Macintosh and Windows systems, available on Adobe Labs.



Reference and documentation



Pixel Bender Language Reference (PDF)file

Pixel Bender Developer's Guide (PDF)file