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#Where should alien skin snap art be installed skin#

For more images and for those I have not demonstrated, go to the Alien Skin Snap Art 2 Gallery. The bottom image has the Stylize black and white layer at 55% allowing some color to show through. The next group I will demonstrate are two examples from the watercolor category.īelow is the original for the next category of Pastel -Portraits.īelow are two more portraits showing the diversity possible.īelow are the last two images. I always use a separate layer so I can control the opacity or blending mode if I desire.īelow are some examples of various styles. In the preferences you can choose whether the plug-in will use a separate layer or automatically go to the layer below. Whenever, I am creating these type of effects, I always try to follow this procedure and work at my printing size if possible. I'll demonstrate it later using a portrait.īelow are images I created using Alien Skin Software's Snap Art 2.Īs a note, Alien Skin recommends that you resize your image to the final working size before using Snap Art 2. This would be good, especially for portraits, but I wanted to demonstrate it with a prominent effect called Pointillism. You can use this if you want the center of your image to be without an effect. You might have noticed in the interface that there is a region called Focus Region. Some will differ depending on the medium selected. Below is the interface for the oil paints.Ī closer look at the various panels can be found below. You can use presets, modify them, and save them as favorites. The interface is easy to use with the commands at your fingertips. Here is the panel that I can keep open in Photoshop. There are a number of types of natural media styles that you can use as well as a Stylize section. It is an excellent addition especially if you use two monitors and have all your controls on one of them. Make sure you look for this panel on the website.

#Where should alien skin snap art be installed download#

Then I could download a CS4 panel as an Adobe Extension to easily access the plug-in. It installed into both programs simultaneously and automatically. I am using Vista 64-bit and Photoshop CS4. It is one of the few plug-ins that can be used with Photoshop CS4 in either the 64 or 32-bit version. Snap Art 2 can turn your work into many styles of natural media or stylized images. Often, these automatic programs that convert regular photos or images into other types do not give the user much control. I plan to use Snap Art 2 in conjunction with other programs, but first I needed to know that I could control my effects.

I am in the process of turning some of my work into "abstract" style work to use in conjunction with a multi-media project that I am pursuing. When I saw Alien Skin Software's Snap Art 2, I knew I wanted to review it.