UPDATE: The Mysterious Ways website is no longer available. It’s unclear if there is another place where you can download the Almathera Plugin Collection. The text that follows is the original posting that appeared here.
Almathera made some cool stuff in the Amiga days and for their Photoshop plugins to still be available is something of a small miracle. According to Jolyon Ralph, who operates the Mysterious Ways site where these plugins now reside, “Currently this software remains copyright but can be distributed in a NON-COMMERCIAL manner freely. You may use the software for commercial purposes (ie design work), but you must not make money through selling copies of it.” The collection contains shape, bevel, halo, drop shadow, grayscale, warp, lightning and puddle effects. The interface certainly has a “classic” look to it, but the plugins are still a useful part of graphic editing history. These plugins should work with Paint Shop Pro, Fireworks, Photoshop and any other apps using the Photoshop plugin standard.
