Beauty: Snap Art 2 is a Photoshop plug-in that turns your photography into beautiful works of art with a single click. Detailed simulation of individual brush strokes and canvas texture gives results that are indistinguishable from handmade art. The finished piece begs to be hung in a gallery, especially when printed on canvas.

SpiroMaker creates an infinite variation of Spirographs(R) (mathematical name is trochoids) inside Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. As a selection Plug-in it will come as a new path, a new layer, or a new selection. Stroke the path with a color for stunning effects.

Squizz is an incredible Plug-in that enables the user to directly distort any grayscale, Lab, RGB, RGB 16-bit, or CMYK images directly, on a layer, or within a selection. With effects such as squeeze, smear, wrap, twist, pinch, and distort, expand photos — without limits.

Features:

• brush for stunning image distortions — ultra cool with the new freeze option;

• advanced grids-warping features — precise;

• a bzier-like grid on a super high-end system;

• includes envelopes to warp bitmaps onto shapes;

• enables distortion with three bzier paths;

• larger previews and unique pan and zoom at any level of detail;

• supports grayscale, Lab, RGB, RGB 16-bit, or CMYK;

• works on layers (keeping transparency intact); and

• distort to any kind of template.

Squizz as compared to Photoshop's liquefy feature:

• brushes have no limits (600 pixel limit in liquefy),

• brushes work through a virtual mechanism with the same speed — regardless the picture size;

• brushes feature jitter and displace

• warp rendering is faster on large images

• advanced grids with full control over creation is perfect for label warp (grids are not available in liquefy);

• envelopes (not available in liquefy); and

• coons and path warping (not available in liquefy).

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Manufacturer: Human Software Company Inc., The

Stamina Collection includes: Squizz, Textissimo, and PhotoSpray. Stamina Gold Collection includes: Squizz, Textissimo, PhotoSpray, and OttoPaths

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Manufacturer: Human Software Company Inc., The

StarMaker creates an infinite variation of stars, suns, or starbursts inside Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. No need for an illustration package to create a unique starburst, create one easily with StarMaker, a selection Plug-in, as a new path, new layer, or a new selection.

Textissimo features more than 400 ready-made effects to customize or as a starting point to generate unique and fresh text effects.

Create text effects with any PostScript Type 1 or TrueType font (TrueType only on Windows). Choose from more than 410 libraries and create amazing effects for day-to-day jobs and projects. Create vignettes, advanced gradients, drop shadows, textures inside type, and more complex special renderings such as cutouts, halo, glow, fire, ice, and bubbles. Create incredibly sophisticated text effects, so far unattainable with current solutions. Combine, test, exchange, add operations, merge, blend, and more. When finished click save and add it to the library.

Textissimo blends the text effect to any background magically. Natural distressed type, earth effects, lava, fire, magma, ice, electric shock, distress and gradient, bevel, carve, shadows, and text spray.

Textissimo is very easy to use. Enter the title or path and load the effect (use the scrolling library, organized per category, and preview the effect beautifully blended to the background); click the apply button, and the effect is complete.

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Manufacturer: Human Software Company Inc., The

Xenofex 2 delivers 14 more phenomenal effects for web designers, graphic artists, digital photographers, and special-effects enthusiasts.

With Xenofex 2, simulate spectacular natural phenomena such as lightning and clouds. Create striking images and text using sophisticated distortions such as flag, television, and the brand new rip open. Transform photos into jigsaw puzzles, constellations, and intricate mosaics with a single click. Presets put hundreds of quick and easy effects at the users' fingertips.

Xenofex 2 is OS X compatible and with the familiar, uncluttered interface of Eye Candy 4000, Xenofex 2 is better than ever.

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Manufacturer: Alien Skin Software

Imaging applications today work with linear resizing, so everything within the image changes size proportionally. Xfile 2 does that too with super advanced algorithms and now features a seam carving tool that allows the image to be resized while changing its aspect ratio and keeping important features untouched. It removes or adds areas to an image that would be least noticed.