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Pixel Bender

The Adobe® 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.

Pixel Bender prerelease 5 expands on previous releases with the addition of the Pixel Bender Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop® CS4 and the Pixel Bender Utility.

  1. The Pixel Bender Plug-in for Photoshop CS4 supports processing of Pixel Bender filters on images opened in Photoshop CS4. The plug-in supports both Pixel Bender kernel (.pbk) and graph (.pbg) programs.
  2. The Pixel Bender Utility is a command-line utility for converting a Pixel Bender kernel (.pbk) file into a byte-code (.pbj) file that can be used in Flash® Player 10. The utility is installed with the Pixel Bender Toolkit.
  3. This release contains expanded documentation in a Pixel Bender Developer’s Guide and a Pixel Bender Reference.  The Reference now provides a complete specification for the Pixel Bender graph language in addition to the kernel language.

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Pixel Bender Toolkit

This download provides the Pixel Bender Toolkit for Macintosh and Windows. Installation and setup instructions are available within the Pixel Bender release notes.

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Pixel Bender Plug-in for Photoshop CS4

This download provides the Pixel Bender Plug-in for Photoshop CS4 on 32-bit Macintosh and Windows systems and 64-bit Windows systems. Installation and setup instructions are available within the Pixel Bender release notes.

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