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Cutline Filter is a new multiplatform, stylized screening and woodcut effect as an Adobe Photoshop-compatible Plug-in.The development of the Cutline Filter was inspired by customer's requests to develop products that create an engraved effect made popular by the Wall Street Journal and Barnes & Noble.After studying classic engravings and woodcuts, a unique line/dot combination screen was developed for the Cutline Filter. This screen replaces the grey tones in a photo or an illustration with black and white lines which may be cross hatched in the shadow areas as the lines become thicker or subtly break up into dots in the highlight areas as the lines become thinner. The result is a digital-engraving effect that emulates the classic old-world engraving techniques.In addition to unique screening technology, Cutline Filter’s stamper tool gives the digital artists, for the first time, flexibility in changing the engraving direction to emphasize the dimensions or contour of the object being digitally engraved.Features:• engraves selected parts of a grayscale photograph or illustration in 10 to 35 LPI range;• customizable to higher or lower settings;• uses a unique directional engraving tool (stamper) to set angles and curvature of engraved lines;• effortlessly identifies and applies selected engraved lines to highlight, midtone, and shadow areas in an un-selected grayscale image;• reinterprets gradients into engraved lines of varying width and shape;• offers wavy and straight lines and ellipses, making it easy to affect an image with an elegant engraving or stunning woodcut effect; and• impressively creates the look of classic-printing techniques following the contours of the image.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Andromeda Software, Inc.
Get a bundle and save. The Design Collection includes Squizz, Textissimo, and OttoPaths for Adobe Photoshop and Corel PHOTO-PAINT.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Human Software Company Inc., The
For additional savings, check out the bundle: DreamSuite Series Bundle.For additional savings, check out the bundle: AutoEye, DreamSuite, Photo/Graphic Edges Bundle.For demo download, please see DreamSuite Series Bundle.DreamSuite Gel is a fun special-effects suite that can add vibrant, translucent depth effects to artwork. With DreamSuite Gel, generate stunning print and web graphics with ease using the award-winning DreamSuite engine to give an infinite variety of looks and combinations of visual results.DreamSuite Gel was designed to be useful for everyday design projects. Great care was put into building an infinite amount of variation into the effects so the work is styled after a user's own tastes and avoids the canned look so many graphics programs are known for.Features:• gel applies vibrant depth to type and graphics with a brush or selection;• gel painter creates unique hammered, chipped, and dented depth bevel effects;• gel mixer blends and mixes an unlimited number of gel surfaces together;• liquid crystal brushes on and flows soft, reflective, translucent glassy depth to artwork; and• crystal painter brushes and paints with liquid mercury, melted gold, and other metals.Visual presets ship with the DreamSuite Gel series. Import artwork and select a preset thumbnail to apply to artwork. DreamSuite Gel Suite is ideal for creating web graphics, buttons, banners, and navigation systems.DreamSuite Gel features advanced onscreen brush controls to paint on textured surfaces and colors and provides control of depth by limiting the painting on imprints or extrusion on the bevels on a localized basis. In DreamSuite Gel, each effect has a set of controls that allow the user to adjust the effect's visual settings. Any onscreen tools associated with an effect are tied to the effect controls so the user may draw on screen and the brush applies the current setting.DreamSuite Gel series can be used to create simple graphics with translucent depth or it can be used to paint over photos and add depth, color, and surface textures.Features:• complete support for Adobe Photoshop versions 4.0 and higher;• includes integrated support for layers and transparency features;• saves to the Photoshop (PSD) file format with layers intact;• supports Photoshop actions;• supports Photoshop layers;• supports Photoshop's last filter command;• saves and loads PSDs;• works as a Photoshop Plug-in or as a stand-alone application;• supports Photoshop transparency;• easy to access in Photoshop under the filter menu.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Auto F/X
For additional savings, check out the bundle: Creative Edge Bundle.For additional savings, check out the bundle: DreamSuite Series Bundle.For additional savings, check out the bundle: AutoEye, DreamSuite, Photo/Graphic Edges Bundle.For demo download, please see DreamSuite Series Bundle.DreamSuite Series One is a suite of powerful visual effects that allow anyone, professionals or novices alike, to create beautiful images and artwork. DreamSuite achieves visual results that are difficult or impossible to attain using any other software.DreamSuite includes a stand-alone imaging application as well as a Plug-in that works with Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Paintshop Pro, and Corel PHOTO-PAINT.DreamSuite now ships with professional features that enable users to combine different effects together using layers and masking that are included.Features:• SmartLayers is a robust layering system that enables the user to combine masking, photos, effects, and color correction layers together in one document;• masking layers enable the user to quickly and cleanly mask areas of an image to apply effects to selected areas;• correction layers enable the user to adjust color details such as RGB and HSB to get the perfect balance of colors for effects;• effect layers stack on top of each other on the layers palette so that the user can combine different effects in the same document, e.g., apply Liquid Metal and Gel effects together, or use FilmGrain to enhance a PhotoToned image;• photo layers enable the user to add new photos and composite them together and then change layer opacity, layer order, clone, or delete layers;• unlimited undo and redo functionality allows the user to go back to undo brush strokes, effect settings, object transformations, and more;• layer presets enables the user to save an effect and all layers used to create the effect and then apply the result to another image or set of artwork;• load layer presets using visual thumbnails displayed in the new Layer Preset catalog;Includes hundreds of new presets created just for the new Pro versions of DreamSuite products. These new creative presets lets users instantly apply effects that give amazing results.The new Pro version has increased rendering speed and operation on both Macintosh and Windows systems. Speed increases range from 50% - 300% depending on the effect, image size, and machine. DreamSuite Pro is optimized for increased speed gains when used with a dual or hyper-threaded-processor enabled machine.Featured Effects:• 35 mm Frame to put photos into 35 mm slides and create collages;• Dimension X provides over a dozen unique depth bevels, shading, glassy reflection, and more;• Photo Border adds stylized borders around photos and overlap collages;• Chisel provides unique hammered, chipped, and dented depth-bevel effects;• Focus simulates soft focus, zoom, rotated, and motion focus effects;• Photo Depth adds depth to photos by fraying, denting, and crimping;• Crackle simulates photorealistic aged photo cracks and crackled surface;• Hot Stamp adds punch to type and graphics with roughened edges, blends, and melded glows;• Photo Tone provides blended sepia tones, focal glows, and mottled backgrounds;• Crease interactively bends and creases photos for unique depth looks;• Instamatic surrounds photos with a photorealistic instamatic frame;• Putty to bend, twist, enlarge, push, reshape, squish, and reform images with Beziér tools;• Cubism adds artistic cubed shapes to photos and backgrounds;• Liquid Metal to brush and paint with liquid mercury, melted gold, and other metals;• Ripple provides interactive photorealistic ripples, waves, and water surfaces;• Deckle to rip and tear photos to give them a torn, deckled appearance;• Metal Mixer blends metal surfaces together for a mix of unique depth effects and metal blending;• Tape provides photorealistic masking tape, transparent, duct, sports, and other tape styles.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Auto F/X
For additional savings, check out the bundle: DreamSuite Series Bundle.For additional savings, check out the bundle: AutoEye, DreamSuite, Photo/Graphic Edges Bundle.For demo download, please see DreamSuite Series Bundle.DreamSuite Series 2 is a powerful collection of 12 unique visual effects for enhancing photographs. This series offers a wide diversity of visual options to make any photo more distinctive.DreamSuite was designed to be useful for everyday design projects and to provide an infinite amount of variation for the effects.Effects:• 2 1/4 provides photorealistic 2 1/4 film frames with unique translucency;• photopress an effect to press photos down into the background;• 4 x 5 are photorealistic 4 x 5 film frames with unique translucency;• photo strips to slice and overlap image strips adding unique visual effects;• filmgrain to simulate traditional high-grain films;• plasticwrap will make elements in a photo look like they are pressing against a sheet of plastic;• filmstrip to interactively bend and crease photos for unique depth effects;• puzzle pieces will turn photos into realistic pieces that can be moved around and layered;• filmframe art provides creative filmstrip effects for combining images together artistically;• tile to shape photos using tiles and depth;• mesh that gives the effect of weaving strips of photos; and• wrinkle applies photorealistic wrinkles and depth shading.DreamSuite Series 2 features advanced onscreen image-transformation tools, full support for layer transparency, layering multiple effects, and much, much more.Each effect has a set of controls that allow the user to adjust the effect’s visual settings. Any onscreen tools associated with an effect are tied to the effect controls so the user may draw on screen with an effect path and then adjust the controls that affect only that path.Controls generate dynamically so the user can interactively adjust the visual on screen with the tool and the effect updates. Custom settings are associated with the selected component of the effect — change the component and the visual will update to the new parameters.DreamSuite Series 2 features complete support for Adobe Photoshop versions 4.0 and higher. This includes integrated support for layers and transparency features. DreamSuite Series 2 even saves to the .PSD file format with layers intact.Benefits:• supports Photoshop actions;• supports Photoshop layers;• supports Photoshop’s last filter command;• saves and loads native PSD files;• works as a Photoshop Plug-in, or as a stand-alone application;• supports Photoshop transparency; and• easy to access in Photoshop under the filter menuUse DreamSuite Series 2 in conjunction with Photoshop actions to perform batch processing tasks to hundreds of images in one easy-to-apply session.Features:• intelligent control-interrupt system enables the user to interrupt the effect when updating;• adjustable preview features a 1600% marquee-zoom capability with built-in panning support with proxy mode to render blazingly fast;• save and replay effect settings for instant results;• presets are resolution independent providing the same results while working on any sized file;• presets are saved in a visual preset catalog with thumbnail previews;• memory dots record current settings;• stores and works from the original image when generating effect layers so images can be freeform transformed multiple times with no quality loss;• dynamic features enable the user to work in a true nonlinear fashion — go forward or back by adjusting the controls;• unique photo-placement tool allows users to place images inside of effects and have the images automatically scaled and orientated to match the angle and perspective of the effect;• file loading and saving support for: PSD, TIFF, BMP, JPG, and PNG;• on-demand help provides comprehensive detailed instructions about the control during mouse over; and • choose from over a dozen interface flavors and desktop textures.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Auto F/X
For detailed bundled-product descriptions, refer to each individual product.Bundle includes DreamSuite Series One Pro, DreamSuite Series Two Pro, and DreamSuite Gel Series Pro.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Auto F/X
The Edge & Frame Galaxy CD-ROM includes more than 1,450 edges and 150 colored frames in over 120 distinct categories. Use them to give photos a personal touch, as backgrounds for titles and credits, design greeting cards, postcards, CD booklets and labels, or to create specially shaped buttons, animations, or special video effects.The CD-ROM contains 800 edges and frames at low and mid resolution (72 to 144 DPI) and 700 edges and frames at high resolution (300 DPI). The Windows image formats include BMP, JPG, or TIFF, and Macintosh image formats of JPEG and PICT. Additionally there are goodies such as Actions for Photoshop and freeware edges and tools.The Edge & Frame Galaxy includes a small Windows selection as a download version of Edge & Frame Galaxy (400 edges and 50 frames at 72 DPI in JPG format).Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: The Plugin Site
The EtchTone Filter is a multiplatform, Photoshop-compatible Plug-in. Starting with a grayscale or color illustration or photo, the Plug-in combines an etch pattern (black and white) with the original image to create an EtchTone. The image becomes a continuous-tone screen that results in a classic, old printing look that softens the harshness of solid black-and-white line screens. Depending upon the EtchTone effect desired, the filter will either overlay the etch or blend the etch into a continuous-tone image.Features:• unique process for simulating the look of steel etching;• start with grayscale, RGB, or CMYK photograph or illustration;• adjust amount of steel etch in an original image;• adjust original image sharpness, brightness, contrast;• vary the mix of original image and the etch pattern;• view EtchTone-ing at 1:1; and• identifies controls that are moused over.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Andromeda Software, Inc.
Like the original release, Exposure 2 is a Plug-in for Photoshop and compatible host applications. Exposure provides amateur and professional photographers, graphic designers, and photo retouchers with one-click access to the broadest range of film stock and special effects settings available anywhere. Exposure 2 delivers even more features that add the look and feel of film to digital photography. Users can easily simulate current and discontinued print and slide film stocks — both black and white and color — and subtly manipulate realistic grain, mimic darkroom effects such as push and cross processing, even save a signature look as a preset. What's more, everything in Exposure 2 is accessible in one simple interface.Exposure 2 is the new, even more feature-packed version of our award-winning Photoshop Plug-in that gives digital photographs the look and feel of film. Whether you’re a fashion or wedding photographer, a designer, or art director, with Exposure 2 you'll have one-click access to the broadest range of film stocks and special effects settings available in any software package. That's why Exposure 2 is the closest thing to film since film.Pick a film, any film. When it comes to the variety of films you can simulate, Exposure 2 has no peer. Match the look of popular film stocks such as Portra, Velvia, Kodachrome, Polaroid, and TRI-X. We’ve even saved some films from extinction in Exposure 2, such as Agfa Scala, GAF 500, and Kodak EES.It all comes down to grain. Exposure 2 provides the most realistic grain on the market, now with even more control over sharpness, color variation, and intensity throughout the tonal range; and since Exposure 2’s grain size automatically adjusts to the image size, the user will get consistent results across all cameras.More effective effects. With over 300 presets, Exposure 2 has even more special effects settings than before, including push and cross processing, a vastly improved infrared simulator, and sophisticated color to black and white conversion.So easy to use. Exposure 2 simplifies workflow by collecting color, dynamic range, softness, and grain control into one easy-to-use Plug-in. Correct a colorcast, soften a digital portrait, or tweak contrast with our powerful slider and curve controls; or even define a signature look and save it as a one-click effect.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Alien Skin Software
The Eye Candy 5: Bundle offers three complete products for one low price. The bundle includes full, retail copies of Eye Candy 5: Textures, Eye Candy 5: Nature, and Eye Candy 5: Impact. That's 30 of the most-advanced special effects for $199 — less than $7 per filter.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Alien Skin Software
Eye Candy 5: Impact, is a collection of ten Photoshop filters that create chrome, brushed metal, glass, bevels, shadows, reflections, and more. The third of three upgrades to Eye Candy 4000, Impact offers beautifully rendered effects that any novice or professional designer will appreciate.Impact includes three all-new filters. Backlight projects dramatic light beam and spotlight effects. Brushed Metal simulates textured metal surfaces such as brushed aluminum and polished brass. Extrude gives two-dimensional objects a classic three-dimensional look, adding thickness and perspective. In addition, Impact refines seven classic effects that made Eye Candy famous. Embossing effects now include surface textures and more bevel shapes. Gel, glass, chrome, and liquid metal effects now showcase a wide variety of vibrant reflections. Impact includes over 200 presets for frequently used effects; find the perfect effect quickly. The improved settings-management system makes it easy to browse, share, and collect new settings. Impact also works with 16-bit images. Color transitions are smoother, with less banding. Print documents reproduce colors more accurately. Upgrade pricing is available for owners of other Alien Skin products.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Alien Skin Software
Nature, is a collection of ten Photoshop filters, which create fire, smoke, rust, snow, ice, and more. The second of a three-part upgrade to Eye Candy 4000, Nature offers beautifully rendered effects that any novice or professional designer will appreciate.Nature includes four new filters and reincarnates six Eye Candy classics. The classic filters boast brand-new looks, greater realism, and improved ease-of-use. For example, select filters can create a new layer and render effects to it; this enables the user to view, edit, or turn off these effects without modifying the original layer.Nature includes over 500 presets for frequently used effects; find the perfect effect quickly. The improved settings-management system makes it easy to browse, share, and collect new settings.Nature also works with 16-bit images. Color transitions are smoother, with less banding. Print documents reproduce colors more accurately.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Alien Skin Software
Eye Candy 5: Textures, a Photoshop Plug-in, is a collection of ten seamless texture generators. The first of three upgrades to Eye Candy 4000, Eye Candy 5: Textures produces a wide variety of texture effects, including snake and lizard skin, fur, brick, stone, and wood. Graphic designers, web developers, and 3D artists can quickly create backgrounds, skins, seamless tiles, and more.Relying on the contents of a stock-texture library limits creativity. Eye Candy 5: Textures creates a limitless variety of photorealistic surfaces for $99, the cost of a stock CD. Tiling is quick and easy because every filter has a seamless-tile option. Eye Candy 5: Textures includes settings for over 200 frequently used effects. A new settings system makes it easy to explore these effects. The ability to save and export makes sharing settings a snap.Eye Candy 5: Textures works with 16-bit images and does not compromise expanded color depth. Color transitions are smoother and print documents reproduce colors more accurately.NOTE: Eye Candy 5 will be a three-part series. Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Alien Skin
FixerBundle includes four photo-correction Plug-ins: FocusFixer, NoiseFixer, ShadowFixer, and TrueBlur.Use FocusFixer to bring a background element of a photograph into focus for producing extra large enlargements to be used as exhibition stands or billboards. Removes focus blur from those parts of images where a narrow depth of field has to be used. Not only will FocusFixer restore detail, it will add clarity and quality for forensic as well as aesthetic applications. Use it on color and monochrome pictures; and even photographs taken by traditional methods and scanned into a PC or Mac OS X. Upgraded version uses the EXIF information (attached to image files) to produce significantly improved results.NoiseFixer removes noise or graininess from images by giving total control and enabling the user to tailor the results. The sophisticated mathematical technology is hidden by a simple and easy-to-use front end. Independently visualize the noise from an image’s luminance and chrominance components and see the final combined effects in the preview screen. Where previously noise-reducing applications have produced an image that is softened in the process, NoiseFixer ensures there is no loss of clarity in the final image.ShadowFixer corrects the problem of different exposure requirements within one image. A dark corridor in the foreground leading to a light garden in the background, shadows across a subject’s face, or a photograph taken in bright sunlight of a subject in shadow; the type of problems that photographers and image makers face daily.Previously one of the few ways of dealing with digital images with under exposed areas or dark shadows may have been to correct using the brightness and contrast controls, which has the effect of lightening the whole image and lightening the areas that were already correctly exposed. ShadowFixer is designed to be used on an entire image or a large region of an image which has boundaries that lie along those of an object or shadow in the image, blending the over exposed and underexposed regions into the whole picture, all while enhancing the detail in the fixed areas.TrueBlur gives images a more realistic-looking blur than has previously been possible. Due to the unique LensFIT technology, TrueBlur offers the most realistic blur on the market. TrueBlur uses EXIF information (where present) to generate an accurate model of the lens optics. Give the selection the final touch by adding noise to ensure it blends seamlessly into the final image.The FixerBundle supports Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro, and other Photoshop-compatible image editing suites.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: FixerLabs Ltd.
Take charge of the photo universe with FlashBox, the only photo-imaging tool that brings professional-level special effects to users of all skill levels.Create reality with designer-certified FlashXubes (cubes) that bring beautiful, fully realized designs and intuitive tools to the fingertips. Start with a selection of Xubes with designs for holidays, gardens, lifestyles, and more.Vacation in exotic lands. Travel through time. Try a facelift without the surgery. Turn the family photo into an impressionist masterpiece. The effects are endless with FlashBox.Features:• professional-level special effects, including flames, starbursts, confetti, and warping;• spray-on-effects tools apply effects to precise areas of a composition;• intuitive, drag-and-drop interface;• three levels of help (labelhelp names each tool or icon, hinthelp offers tips about how to use each tool, and help library has detailed instructions about using every feature);• dozens of built-in projects for quickly making beautiful postcards, greeting cards, calendar pages, fliers, invitations, and more;• professionally rendered art including frames, backgrounds, type, and props make beautiful compositions a snap; and• with thematic FlashXubes, add new designs, new tools, and more fun to FlashBox.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Xaos Inc.
FlightCheck Designer (formerly FlightCheck Collect) is a stand-alone application that assists designers as well as service providers in preflighting all major desktop-publishing files.In addition to OS X compatibility, the new features of FlightCheck Designer include: support for OpenType, TrueType, and Adobe Type 1 fonts; expanded support for a variety of native applications, including Microsoft Word, Publisher, and PowerPoint; the ability to open and verify multiple documents in a single session; and sort lists of colors, fonts, images, and so on with a simple click of the file header.FlightCheck Designer’s simple interface will assist designers in checking digital documents for over 150 potential problems. Obeying FlightCheck Designer’s user-definable preferences (called ground controls) the product finds problems with colors, fonts, and images which are the main focus for designers. FlightCheck Designer has the same powerful collection features as the award-winning preflighting application, FlightCheck.Features:• enhanced speed;• Ghent PDF Workgroup rules added to PDF FlightPlan;• Pass4Press PDF specification check added to PDF FlightPlan; and• German, Dutch, and French language options in one package.Supported files and versions:• QuarkXPress: v. 3.1 - 6.0• PageMaker: v.4.2 - 7.0• Photoshop: v.4.0 - 9.0 (CS2)• Illustrator: v6.0 - 12.0 (CS2)• FrameMaker: v5.5 - 6.0• InDesign: v. 1.0 - 4.0 (CS2)• Acrobat: v. 3.0 - 7.0 (PDF v1.6)• Microsoft Word: v 2000 - 2002• Microsoft Publisher: v. 2000 - 2002• Microsoft PowerPoint: v1997 - 2002• FreeHand: v7.0 - 11.0 (MX)• Corel Draw: v8.0 - 9.0• PostScript Levels I, II, and III.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Markzware Software
FlightCheck is the revolutionary stand-alone application that scans documents using a simple drag-and-drop approach to warn of over 150 potential problems, easily and automatically.FlightCheck scans native document files, even without the application that created it, to eliminate using the eyeball method to check documents. FlightCheck verifies all the documents' elements such as colors, fonts, and images and ensures they are valid. After verification, FlightCheck reports a host of possible problems such as missing images or fonts — even fonts in EPSF files.FlightCheck watches for problems such as unused spot colors that may result in printing additional plates, fonts that have been stylized from a style menu, image boxes that have a background color of None, RGB, TIFF, and JPG compressed images, and so on. These problems could result in poor printing or worse yet, stop the print job. After the user is ensured all is well, FlightCheck collects all related files into a single job, including images and both screen and printer fonts, and puts them into a special FlightCheck-approved folder.FlightCheck 5.7 new enhancements are: • Brand new Ground Control for detecting embedded fonts in native files; • Improved accuracy for reading Illustrator CS EPS files; • Improved support for fonts activated through Extensis Suitcase; • Detection of PANTONE colorized text for both InDesign and QuarkXPress; • Detection of boxes with a 'Content Of None' in QuarkXPress;Features:• Carbon support for Macintosh OS X, including Tiger 10.4;• PDF FlightPlans include PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3;• special PDF object model;• cross-platform ground controls;• supports OpenType fonts;• preflight support for Microsoft Word v4, 5, 6, 8 (Office 2000), and 9 (Office 2001) for both Mac and Windows files;• enhanced speed;• Ghent PDF Workgroup rules added to PDF FlightPlan;• Pass4Press PDF specification check added to PDF FlightPlan;• German, Dutch, and French language options in one package;• 70 new views which are essentially the same as the ground controls for colors, fonts, and images (these enable the user to get, for example, a specific list of just TIFF images or TrueType fonts, and zeroing in on (or printing) user-definable specific data;• four new ground controls for detecting the presence of application-generated clipping paths, ICC Profile usage, PostScript color-space management and ink density (highest pixel value in rasterized TIFF or EPS images); and• a next problem button has been added to the problems layout (locate the next occurrence of any problems based on the currently selected criteria, and skip pages that do not have any related problems).Macintosh Supported Applications and Versions:Supported files and versions:• QuarkXPress: v. 3.1 - 6.0• PageMaker: v.4.2 - 7.0• Photoshop: v.4.0 - 9.0 (CS2)• Illustrator: v6.0 - 12.0 (CS2)• FrameMaker: v5.5 - 6.0• InDesign: v. 1.0 - 4.0 (CS2)• Acrobat: v. 3.0 - 7.0 (PDF v1.6)• Microsoft Word: v 2000 - 2002• Microsoft Publisher: v. 2000 - 2002• Microsoft PowerPoint: v1997 - 2002• FreeHand: v7.0 - 11.0 (MX)• Corel Draw: v8.0 - 9.0• PostScript Levels I, II, and III.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Markzware Software
Fluid Mask 2.0 enables the user to cut out images with results never thought possible — tools like this will change the nature of object extraction forever.Fluid Mask is a highly advanced software tool designed to make life easier for everyone who creates cut outs. Built as an Adobe Photoshop Plug-in, Fluid Mask is the new next-generation cut-out tool. Behind the product is breakthrough technology that mimics the way the eye, optic nerve, and brain perform visual processing. It offers an intuitive, accurate, and fast approach to cut outs.A key feature is the new Edge Overlay showing object edges within an image. Suddenly masking become a whole lot easier; it's now possible to select, group, and mask objects in images to make great cut outs.Features:• identify edges using the Edge Overlay before masking begins;• click-and-cut; • easily select object for quick masking;• find hard-to-see edges using the intuitive Edge Detection options;• fine tune mask selections at the pixel level using color palettes;• work in progress is easy to review;• masking and blending are co-synchronous eliminating double work; and• automatically differentiates between hard and soft edges in the blend.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Vertus
FocalBlade enables the user to sharpen photos for screen display and print as well as produce great blur, soft focus, and glow effects. It is a Photoshop-compatible Plug-in which can be used in dozens of graphics applications including Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, PhotoImpact, PHOTO-PAINT, Fireworks, and Photoshop Elements. It works with 8-bit and 16-bit RGB images.FocalBlade features a range of automatic, semiautomatic, and manual tools for sharpening photos. It is very easy to use as it offers interactive explanations for each feature, incorporates modes for various tasks (including a Novice Mode), and provides detailed step-by-step instructions in the manual. FocalBlade works quickly and also batch processes images in cloak mode. Moreover, FocalBlade offers numerous options for creating blur, soft focus, and glow effects and for de-blurring photos that are highly blurred.FocalBlade's sophisticated algorithms enables the user to sharpen images without ugly side effects and gives a lot of control over the sharpening process. FocalBlade sharpens edges and surfaces in an image independently keeping objects (e.g., sky, walls, skin, and other even surfaces) soft while the overall photo is still sharpened. Unlike other tools, FocalBlade doesn't produce halos at high radius settings and even provides sliders for suppressing the white and black part of halos independently. Additionally with FocalBlade the user can set the pixel size of details that are sharpened. Keep noise constant or even reduce it when sharpening a photo.FocalBlade provides three automatic sharpening options for achieving perfect sharpening results with different classes of photos. With screen and print options, make FocalBlade automatically sharpen for screen display or for printing. There is also a semiautomatic sample-area feature, which lets the user focus on an important image area and thereby apply the optimal sharpness to this area. Additionally there are several split view modes to compare the original and sharpened version, or visually perform sharpening with the help of preview stripes that present variations of the current settings. The manual controls include independent sharpen and radius sliders, a soften slider, halo fix sliders, several masking options, and a glow feature. FocalBlade also offers five different sharpening methods. Opening and saving presets for reusing certain effects is also possible.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: The Plugin Site
FocusFixer is the ultimate image-sharpening tool with any number of uses from removing softness to bringing a background element of a photograph into focus. It just simply removes focus blur making it invaluable for countering softness generated by digital cameras or those occasions where a narrow depth of field results from wide apertures. FocusFixer will restore detail and it will add clarity and quality to photographic results. Use it on color and monochrome pictures and even photographs taken by traditional methods and scanned into a PC or Mac OS X.Now with the launch of FocusFixer 1.3, images can be even sharper and the results are stunning. FocusFixer 1.3 uses LensFIT technology (patent pending) to produce amazing results.FocusFixer dispels the myth that once an image has been blurred the information is lost. The vast majority of the information is still there in a blurred image, it is just not in a form that looks good. If you know how the image was blurred, this can be used with the information in the image to reverse the blur to make it sharper. Unsharp masking cannot do this as it attempts to remove blur by blurring the already soft image and subtracting this from the soft original. This perceptual trick often looks adequate but very effectively enhances noise — precisely not what you want. FocusFixer produces superior results on soft images as well as those with more obvious focus blur. It simply puts the light back where it belongs to give a sharper image.Features:• the ultimate sharpening tool;• razor-sharp results from soft images;• removes focus blur cleanly and simply;• uses EXIF information to produce stunning results;• clearer and sharper results than unsharp masking;• sharpens conventional photography for excellent pictorial quality;• use on selected regions of an image;• v1.3 works on any size of image that can be opened in Photoshop;• works on both 8-bit and 16-bit images;• easy installation, just download as instructed; and• optimized for PC and Mac OS X.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: FixerLabs Ltd.
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