by David Nagel
Executive Producer
dnagel@digitalmedianet.com

Plugin developer Harald Heim has released version 1.51 of Plugin Commander, a Windows-based utility for organizing filters. It allows users to manage and preview a plugin collection, with the ability to deactivate rarely used plugins and define how effects will appear in the host application. With Plugin Commander, users can download and modify Filter Factory plugins and apply Photoshop-compatible plugins to images, batch process images, display effects as thumbnails and create plugins.

Harald Heim's Plugin Commander

The latest version offers a number of bug fixes, including some icons being made transparent to adapt to different window colors, a fix for resizing windows, displaying hidden files and a new, smaller setup.

The Pro edition also received several fixes. These include:

• The plugins included with Photoshop 6 can be executed, applied and previewed now;
• The plugins included with Photoshop 4, 5 and 5.5 work correctly now, even if plugin.dll isn't present in your system folder;
• Improved plugin crash protection;
• Bug removed that caused problems when previewing in FFL View;
• 'Create FLL' and 'Convert' from FFL View work correctly again;
• No crash anymore when working with the 'virtual filters' in Plugin View in Photoshop Mode.

The "lite" version of Plugin Commander is available for free. The Pro edition costs $49.95. For more information, visit http://www.thepluginsite.com.

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