Alien Black Box v2.1
The Black Box is a series of ten filters that are Adobe Photoshop compatible plug-ins. Some of these filters are indispensable for web masters. Visit any professional web site and you are sure to see graphics that make use of drop down shadows. Using The Black Box Drop Shadow plug-in makes a multiple step process a one step solution. Furthermore, when you use the plug-in, you maintain maximum control over the effect through sliders that adjust the offset, blur, opacity, and even the shadow color. Likewise to bevel the edges of an object you have over seven points of control over the effect, plus once you get it the way you want it, you can save your settings.
What's in the box?
Included plug-ins are Glow, Drop Shadow, Cutout, Inner Bevel, Outer Bevel, Carve, Motion Trail, Glass, Swirl, and HSB Noise. Swirl seems to be the chosen trademark of the Black Box. The price may seem a bit steep for only ten filters, with perhaps only three or four being filters you can not live without. However, if you are doing production work, the savings in time should more than make up for the cost.
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Alien Skin Blow Up v1.0
Image Quality: Blow Up® 1 is a Photoshop® plug-in that produces enlargements dramatically sharper than any other software, especially Photoshop! Blow Up uses an innovative algorithm that temporarily converts pixels to a vector representation which results in perfectly smooth, crisp edges. Simulated texture and film grain keep photos looking natural even in extreme enlargements. Blow Up can even clean up JPEG compression artifacts when a client insists on using a low quality source image from the Web.
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Alien Skin Exposure v2.0
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. You can match the look of popular film stocks like Portra®, Velvia®, Kodachrome®, Polaroid®, and TRI-X®. We’ve even saved some films from extinction in Exposure 2, like Agfa® Scala®, GAF® 500, and Kodak® EES.
It all comes down to grain. Exposure 2 gives you 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 your image size, you get consistent results across all of your 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 your 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 your signature look and save it as a one-click effect.
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Alien Skin Eye Candy 4000 v4.2
If you're anything like me, your Photoshop Plug-Ins folder looks like a junk yard. It's full of old, decrepit filters that you haven't used since you stopped designing your own custom Dungeons & Dragons character sheets; demos of filters that expired before computers were even invented; and shareware filters whose usefulness you've never quite figured out, but somehow you can't bring yourself to throw them away. Hey, I still have Gallery Effects loaded on one of my Macs!
But amid all that clutter, you have three or four packages you routinely use when there's serious work to be done. I won't name all of them here. They can send me review copies if they want publicity. But one of these, surely, is Eye Candy from Alien Skin Software.
I was introduced to this package of special effects for Photoshop when version 3 was released, and it quickly became one of my favorites, not only for designing custom D&D character sheets, but also for doing professional work in print and, later, on the Web. The latest version is Eye Candy 4000, which Alien Skin released just a few weeks ago. It's an update whose time has come.
New features
Eye Candy 4000 adds five new filters to the set included in Eye Candy 3—Marble, Melt, Drip, Corona and Wood—bringing the total to 23 effects. It also brings with it a new interface for all of the filters.
Where the old interface seemed overburdened and slow, the new one is light and speedy, although, as with version 3, previews can still take as much render time as the final effect. But, on the whole, the interface in Eye Candy 4000 is much more effective.
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Alien Skin Eye Candy Impact v5.1
Eye Candy® 5: Impact, is a collection of ten Photoshop filters which create chrome, brushed metal, glass, bevels, shadows, reflections and more. 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 2D objects a classic 3-D 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; you can 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.
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Alien Skin Eye Candy Nature v5.1
Eye Candy® 5: Nature, is a collection of ten Photoshop filters, which create fire, smoke, rust, snow, ice and more. 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 allows you to view, edit, or turn off these effects without modifying the original layer.
Nature includes over 500 presets for frequently used effects; you can 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.
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Alien Skin Eye Candy Textures v5
Eye Candy® 5: Textures is a collection of ten seamless texture generators. 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. Textures creates a limitless variety of photo-realistic surfaces for $99, the cost of a stock CD. And, because every filter has a seamless tile option, tiling is quick and easy.
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.
Textures works with 16-bit images and does not compromise expanded color depth. Color transitions are smoother and print documents reproduce colors more accurately.
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