COMPANY: Alien Skin | URL: www.alienskin.com | TYPE: Plug-in | PLATFORM: Mac, Windows | PRICE: $199
	Alien Skin Snap Art 3 turns your photograph into a beautiful work of art that looks completely handmade. Improved realism in version 3 keeps your subject natural and recognizable. The result is a finished piece worthy of printing on canvas and hanging in a gallery. Using Snap Art just requires a creative idea, not hand-eye coordination or technical training. Simply choose from hundreds of styles such as oil paint, watercolor, pencil sketch, or the new crayon. If you need more control, the new detail mask let’s you quickly mark areas where you want the subject to be clearer. Features NEW! Improved Realism Version 3 uses more refined stroke placement to keep edges sharp and reproduce natural texture. This keeps the subject natural and recognizable. If you used Snap Art in the past then you will notice dramatically clearer results, especially on portraits. NEW! Detail Mask Instead of oval focus regions, Snap Art 3 now has a detail mask. This lets you quickly mark exactly where you want more detail. This is great for leaving backgrounds abstract while faces are detailed and natural. Wide range of media and styles Snap Art can draw with a wide range of physical media, such as oil paint, watercolor, pencil, and charcoal. Within those, you can choose from a plethora of styles like impasto, pointillism, or modern art techniques like comics and stylize. NEW! Crayon and improved presets Alien Skin added multiple crayon presets for that messy colorful look. All the presets for existing media types were remade and reorganized to be easier to use. NEW! Everything in one place Snap Art went from ten filters to just one. Now you can explore all of the media types and styles in one place without switching filters. The entire user interface is redesigned for easier exploration. The presets are always visible on the left, there is a huge preview in the center, and you experiment with your style on the right. NEW! Hidden complexity There are now presets that control groups of related sliders. This lets you quickly experiment with one aspect of the art, such as color scheme, without having to manipulating four different sliders. Alien Skin also hid the more esoteric sliders by default so you can focus on just the most important controls. Non-destructive editing Snap Art supports a non-destructive workflow, making experimentation easy. Effects in Photoshop are rendered on a new layer, leaving your original image untouched. In Photoshop, Snap Art can be run as a Smart Filter for easy tweaking of the effect after it is created. NEW! Flickr uploading Snap Art 3 can now upload your creations to Flickr. Optionally, you can add your art to the Alien Skin Flickr group where other artists share their work and techniques. Lightroom compatibility Snap Art 3 is compatible with Lightroom 2 or later Photoshop is not required to use Snap Art from Lightroom Snap Art supports Batch Processing when multiple files are selected Running Snap Art 3 from Lightroom Snap Art 3 is run from Lightroom as an external editor. To launch Snap Art on an image simply select an image (or multiple images for batch processing), and select Photo->Edit In->Snap Art 3. You can also right click on the image and select Edit In->Snap Art 3. When Lightroom asks you how to edit the photo, choose “Edit a Copy with Lightroom Adjustments”. This will tell Lightroom to make a copy of the image in the preferred format for Snap Art. Batch mode When Snap Art is run with multiple images from Lightroom, the normal OK button is replaced with an “Next” button and “Finish Batch” button. This will let you either go through each file individually and tweak the setting or you can just apply the current setting to the rest of the images in the set. System requirements Windows: Pentium 4 processor or compatible and Windows XP SP3 or later Macintosh: 64-bit Intel processor and Mac OS X 10.5 or later Monitor: 1024x768 resolution or greater Host requirements Snap Art 3 is a plug-in and requires one of the following host applications: Adobe Photoshop CS4 or later Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 or later Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 or later