How to Create Different Textures with PhotoshopWritten by Ariel Velasco
Creating a multitude of textures is easy if you have know-how and Adobe Photoshop. There are numerous plug-ins that you can make use depending on your need and your level of mastery.One such plug-in is Eye Candy: Textures. 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 contents of a stock-texture library limits creativity and this is addressed by Eye Candy. 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. Creating great artworks can be done quickly saving artist an ample amount of time and energy. 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.
| | PhotoELF in ZoomWritten by Jelaine Macaraeg
The fairy tale of shoemaker and elves tells us story of a poor shoemaker and his wife, who didn’t have enough money to buy materials for their shoes. That was until elves came into their lives and helped them make fanciest and most comfortable shoes town has ever known, making their shoe store most popular in town. Thanks to kind elves, shoemaker and his wife – as expected – lived happily ever after.Now you too can get famous among your family and peers – no, not with shoemaking – but with creative projects you’ll be producing with your handy-dandy digital camera and your every own elf. No, not magical kind but digital variety – PhotoELF! PhotoELF claims to be only software package you’ll ever need for viewing, editing, printing and organizing your digital photos – truly “The Digital Camera Companion.” Not only does it provide a photo editing suite, but it’s also versatile in terms of file support and even provides many time-saving capabilities. While viewing your photo, simply click on “Editor” button from toolbar. From here, you may adjust image’s contrast, brightness, gamma, saturation, hue and sharpness. You may also despeckle scanned images, crop, rotate, remove red-eye, add text and shapes, even create holiday cards, posters and calendars, add some fun effects, do JPG compression and save photo in 60 different formats such as BMP, EMF, FPX, ICO, IFF, JPG, PCT, PCX, PNG, PSD, TIF and WMF just to name a few. Now, that’s what I call versatility!
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