Good news. It does not need photoshop. It can run stand-alone. However this means you just loose the benefit of layers. But u can save out different styles IE ink and water colour layers and use another app paint shop pro/photoshop to combine them. The real benefit of Filterforge is that it gives a nice preview of what your image will look loke with the filter, and as you adjust/modify/change the filter the image will update to the new settings.

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