COMPANY: Artlandia | URL: www.artlandia.com | TYPE: Plug-in | PLATFORM: Mac, Windows | PRICE: $265 ESD/291 CD
							Source image; resulting patterns
				The new, feature-rich SymmetryShop plug-in is all you need to create repeat patterns in Adobe Photoshop. Fully automate your work and easily make sophisticated patterns from scanned hand-painted motifs and high-resolution photographs. Go beyond simplified kaleidoscopic images and produce organic interlocking designs. Artlandia SymmetryShop is all you need to do professional pattern design in Adobe Photoshop. This plug-in makes the design process quick, easy, and fully automatic. Select a part of your image and the plug-in does the rest. The patterns you create with SymmetryShop remain fully editable so that you can change the source and rebuild the pattern, even long after the pattern is created. These powerful features let you do pattern design as never before. With SymmetryShop, you are more productive and creative. And the once painstaking job is now fun. All standard symmetry types Generate a ready stream of design solutions by simply clicking the colorful symmetry buttons. There are exactly seventeen types of symmetry that can be used to create a pattern, all available to you in the SymmetryShop palette. One-click creation of popular repeats Create many popular repeats with just one click. Simply choose drop, brick, diamond, gradation, scale, spot, grid and other repeat types from the Layout list. Then quickly customize the built-in layouts. Even create a variety of special effects, such as optical effects. Interlocking design elements Select a part of the image as a "seed" (motif) and easily build organic, interlocking patterns by letting your design elements overlap. Or clip repeating units and create kaleidoscopic patterns. Smoothed-away boundaries Easily control the amount of overlap of the neighboring units and smooth the boundaries away by applying the feather effect. Quick export as Photoshop pattern fills (presets) Instantly export your finished design—or any number of intermediate snapshots—as Photoshop pattern fills. The plug-in adds your pattern to Photoshop presets and makes it available to the paint bucket, pattern stamp, healing brush and other tools, as well as for the Layer Style dialog. Surface patterns and borders Create just one tile, a border, or a surface pattern. You have the full control over exactly how many repeating units the plug-in makes for you. Interactive editing from Photoshop Change the repeat size of your pattern directly in Photoshop and quickly rebuild the pattern, even without bringing up the SymmetryShop palette. Or edit your motif with the usual Photoshop tools and rebuild. The plug-in fully automates your work. Unlimited iterations and refinement in multiple Photoshop sessions Easily change parameters and tweak the design when your customer requests a modification down the road. Because the plug-in automatically saves everything it needs to rebuild your pattern, you simply open your old SymmetryShop file and pick up right where you finished! Using Adobe Illustrator, too? Save on a value package of SymmetryShop and Artlandia SymmetryWorks 3. Interactively edit vector patterns with SymmetryWorks and get the best of both worlds!