COMPANY: ICT | URL: www.lucisart.com | TYPE: Plug-in | PLATFORM: Mac, Windows | PRICE: $595 ($535 with "plugsnpixels" discount)
						Above: Original unretouched image. Below: The results of gradually increasing the Enhance Detail and Smooth Detail sliders.
				Two sliders. Three channels. Infinite possibilities! LUCISART PRO IS COMING in August '08. New LucisArt Pro software for Windows and Macintosh is currently under development. LucisArt Pro will have the processing power of Lucis Pro 5.0 but will be an Adobe Photoshop plug-in. It will process 16-bit images, have a large preview window and allow the processing of each RGB channel separately. The Macintosh version will run natively on Intel-based Macs and with Photoshop CS3, unlike the older LucisArt. LucisArt Pro's estimated release date is August 2008, with a retail price of $595. New customers and those who purchased any LucisArt product before January 1, 2007 will be eligible for a $60 discount when using the "plugsnpixels" discount code. LucisArt Pro Features LucisArt Pro will be more powerful and even easier to use than LucisArt. LucisArt Pro will allow users to access image content using two sliders, an enhance detail slider and a smooth detail slider. Each slider can be altered in increments of two intensity levels, resulting in 125 settings for each slider for an 8-bit image and 16,000 settings for a 16-bit image. When you move the enhance detail slider image detail and features will be enhanced. If you use the detail smooth detail slider only then the smallest contrast variances are smoothed. This is like the Winslow effect in LucisArt. If you move both sliders then you are enhancing image features while smoothing the smaller image detail, which is the Sculpture special effect. Another important improvement is three-channel processing. LucisArt Pro will allow you to view and alter the grayscale information of each channel using the two sliders, then see the result of the alterations in the preview window. This allows you to do incredible things to images, especially creating new artistic effects. How the altered RGB grayscale images overlap determine image detail and color. LucisArt Pro will also be faster when used on a multi-processor computer. Increased processing accuracy. Eliminate (or at least greatly reduce) some of the angular “line” artifacts that appear when you apply Winslow or Sculpture to a high degree. LucisArt users may or may not have seen this artifact. It depends on how you use LucisArt. These angular artifacts taken to the extreme are the basis of the special effect Plaid. The old LucisArt capabilities will also be present in LucisArt Pro in the event current users want to use the features they are familiar with. To give you another perspective on how much more powerful LucisArt Pro will be than LucisArt: LucisArt was developed using presets from Lucis Pro 5.0. The effect Exposure is just seven settings from the enhance detail slider–that's all. Whyeth is five settings from the enhance detail slider but the first two are repeats of the last presets in Exposure. Winslow is the smooth detail slider. But with LucisArt you can’t apply the enhance detail slider at the same time. The special effect where you are moving both sliders is called Sculpture. And again in LucisArt this has presets. With LucisArt Pro, users will have the full processing power of the standalone Lucis Pro 5.0 in a Photoshop plug-in. Using the enhance detail slider and the smooth detail slider together effectively provides over 15,000 different sculpture effects for an 8 bit image and millions of sculpture effects for a 16-bit image. Updated information: 1) The old LucisArt user interface will not be included in LucisArt Pro. The new user interface is easier to use than the current version of LucisArt. While the approach to accomplish the various effects is a little different, LucisArt Pro can do everything the current LucisArt can do (and more). 2) The Mac version of LucisArt Pro will only run on Intel-based Macs, while the Windows version will run on Windows XP service pack 3 and Windows Vista service pack 1. 3) Both the Windows and Mac versions of LucisArt will require Photoshop CS3 or Photoshop Elements 6.
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