It provides a variety of fine effects through the simulation of natural phenomena in reality.
Visit Alien Skin SoftwareĮye Candy 5: Nature is a plug-in it must be used with a compatible host program.We believe many Photoshop veterans know that Alien Skin Eye Candy filter plugin has already been well known as early as Photoshop 5.0, and now it has upgraded to its version 7.Īlien Skin Eye Candy’s primary application objects contain various design tasks, such as font, logo, web design, etc. Registered users of previous versions of Eye Candy. Nature has an estimated street price of US $99. Your photo and text manipulation needs, you simply must have Eye Candy 5: Nature. Of your favorite photographic preparation software. Of creating useful (and, arguably, necessary) filters, combining ease of use withĪn interface that lets you experiment without distracting you from the natural workflow
Once again, Alien Skin Software continues their trend SQUINT helps you create those brilliant light streaks from shiny highlights that make Large and very refractive waterĭrops appear to mar the cover of the Italian edition of Wither. WATER DROPS come in drips, drops and splatters, simulating condensation, perspiration, rainĭrops, puddles and more, including liquid text. I’ve added a funky, electricįeatures my first ever Wendy Ward short story. Wispy, ghostly auroras or radiant solar flares. Below I’ve added some smoldering flames beneath the cover of my novel, Wither’s Rain. Toolbox, simulates anything from flickering matches to the fury of a rocketĮxhaust. Below, I’ve added a Smoke-y surface toįIRE, another classic filter that should be in every photo manipulator’s digital The gamut from wispy tendrils of steam to violent, volcanic eruptions and You simulate anything from a drippy, “wet paint” (domain name) sign, to the Organicallyįor the following image, I’ve combined a woodĪfter applying a Fireworks MX 2004 emboss filter to the text. Tarnished brass, mold and mildew to accelerate the effects of entropy. Employ Nature’s powers of corrosion and decay, including iron oxide, RIPPLES (New) creates the ripples-on-the-pond-surface effect, from gentle to turbulent.Ĭan help you age photos of metal or street signs. InĪddition to creating wintry text, this filter lets you make any object look ICICLES (New), a great complement to Snow Drift (as you can see in the title text above), Icicles adds icy stalactites to any selection and glazes surfaces with realistic ice. The ‘fangs’ unencumbered by the less-threatening icicles. Winter demon, so I gleefully applied snow and ice effects to the cover image andīelow, I selected only the right half of the cover toĪpply (additional) winter effects, Snow Drift and Icicles, so you can see theĬhange from the original - already wintry - image. Legacy takes place during winter and replete with snow storms and a ravenous You can quickly winterize text or photos. By combining Icicles (below) with Snow Drift, SNOW DRIFT (New Filter) piles snow on any object, selection or text. Landscape or in some bleak apocalyptic vision of the future. In some weird effects that might just mimic something found on an extraterritorial The folks at Alien Skin couldn’t resist throwing Simulate very natural, earthbound effects. New and ImprovedĮC5: Nature comes with four new effects and improvements to six classic Eye Candy filters.īelying the “Alien” in the company name, the goal of these effects is to YouĬan save and share custom settings with other EC5: Nature users. And, if that’s not enough, youĬan tweak the settings and sliders to create unique variations of your own. Provide many variations on each basic filter. Note that you are not limited to those ten effects. If you need chrome, bevels, shadows and other classic effects, hold onto (orĮC5: Nature is a collection of ten Photoshop filters that create, naturally enough, natural phenomena, including Corona, Fire, Drip, Icicles, Ripples, Rust,ĭrops. (Note: The final upgrade, Eye Candy 5: Impact, is set for release in the summer of 2005.
The current release is Eye Candy 5: Nature, with effects ranging from fire to water, with Variety of seamless, texture effects, including snake and lizard skin, fur,īrick, stone and wood. Their popular Eye Candy Photoshop plug-in filters into three separate filter packages,Ĭandy 5: Textures (see my 2004 WindoWatch review), which produced a wide Alien Skin Software is in the process of splitting