COMPANY: Alien Skin | URL: www.alienskin.com | TYPE: Plug-in | PLATFORM: Mac, Windows | PRICE: $199
			Beauty: Alien Skin 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. Simplicity: Forget about buying a pen tablet and taking classes to learn how to use complicated painting software. Snap Art expertly applies thousands of brush strokes. You simply show where you want more detail. This improved level of control makes it easy to render stunning portraits. Creativity: Quickly start by choosing from hundreds of new styles and ten natural media, such as oil paint, watercolor, and pencil sketch. Then customize anything from brush size to paint thickness to make your signature look. Snap Art’s wide range of control lets you make your work completely unique. What's new Version 2 of Snap Art can achieve higher levels of photorealism than version 1. Most filters now have a photorealism slider, so results are only abstract when you want them to be. This helps keep portraits clear and detailed. Focus regions have been added that let you control where detail is preserved. These oval regions are easily reshaped and moved by dragging them in the preview window. Focus regions are most often used on facial features in portraits. All of Snap Art’s presets have been improved and many more added. New in version 2, settings are grouped into categories to help you quickly find the style you are after. There are over 700 presets in Snap Art 2 and users can make even more. Snap Art 2 takes advantage of multi-processors and multi-core CPUs, making it significantly faster than version 1 on most computers. Now Snap Art 2 can work on images of any size, making it suitable for extremely large prints. Photoshop panel Alien Skin has created a free Photoshop panel that makes Snap Art 2 easier to use. After installation, restart Photoshop CS4 and then turn on the panel in the Window->Extensions menu. The panel acts just like any of Photoshop CS4’s panels, such as the Layers panel. It can be docked with other panels and hidden or displayed through the Window menu. The panel lets you start any of the Snap Art filters with a single click rather than navigating the Filter menu. The panel has a button that creates a gallery of all 10 Snap Art filters applied to copies of your image. Finally, the panel has a button that links to the video tutorials part of the Alien Skin website. Note that the panel only works with Photoshop CS4! Also, Snap Art 2 should be installed before you try to use the panel. The Snap Art panel is not installed with Snap Art and is not found on the Snap Art CD. System requirements Minimum system requirements 1024 MB RAM 1024x768 or greater monitor resolution Host applications: Adobe Photoshop CS3 or later Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0.1 or later on Mac Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 or later on Windows Adobe Fireworks CS4 Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 Windows: Intel Pentium 4 processor (or compatible) Windows XP or later Macintosh: PowerPC G5 processor or Intel processor Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later Recommended System Requirements for Windows and Macintosh Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo RAM: 2 GB
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