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Alien Skin's Eye Candy 5 Filters
Reviewed by Jerry Lee
Alien Skin's release of Eye Candy 5 Impact has completed the upgrade of Eye Candy 4000.
In order to review the new products I need to compare them with the old product.
Packaging, Eye Candy 4000 is all inclusive with 23 filters. Eye Candy 5 is sold in three packages, Impact, Textures and Nature with 10 filters in each package. Some of the filters in Eye Candy 4000 have been eliminated, combined or renamed with other filters.
Eliminated Filters
Cutout, Antimatter and Jiggle.
Combined Filters
Nature -- Melt which is combined in Drip.
Renamed Filters
Textures -- Fur now Animal Fur.
Textures -- HSB Noise now Texture Noise.
Impact -- Star now Super Star.
Impact -- Bevel and Emboss now Bevel.
Added Filters
Nature -- Icicles, Ripples and Rust.
Impact -- Backlight, Brushed Metal and Extrude.
Textures -- Brick Wall, Diamond Plate, Reptile Skin and Stone Wall.
The above image show's Eye Candy 5 Impact Motion Blur Filter.
The above image show's the final out come.
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The above image, making a seamless marble pattern in Eye Candy 5 Textures.
The below image, showing the settings.
With the new packaging the type of filter is now easier to find or at least can be identified by the package name. The number of presets has tripled in most of the filters. You now have more control over some of the filters with the addition of new control sliders. The programmers found a way to increase the number of filters that reside on their own layer. This is a bonus, now you can mask or use a blend mode to increase/decrease the effect to your liking.
Visiting http://alienskin.com is also a treat. In the forum at their site you can download new presets,
find tutorials and software updates as well as post questions about the software.
(You have to join the forum to post).
A visit to this site would benefit those that are interested and view the examples provided by each filter.
Eye Candy 5: Is a plug-in and must be used with one of the following host programs:
Macintosh Hosts:
Adobe Photoshop 7 or later
Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 or later
Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004 or later
Windows Hosts:
Adobe Photoshop 7 or later
Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 or later
Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004 or later
Corel Paint Shop Pro 8 or later
CADLink SignLab 7.5
System Requirements
Eye Candy 5: Impact requires the following:
Macintosh Systems:
500 MHz PowerPC G3 processor
256 MB RAM
Mac OS X 10.2.6 or later
Windows Systems:
1 GHz Pentium III processor
256 MB RAM
Windows 2000 or Windows XP
Conclusion: A great set of software packages for anyone. It speeds up production and provides filter effects that would take most of us hours to duplicate. You can apply multiple filters on the same image. A great buy for those that upgrade from Eye Candy 4000 but you must upgrade each individually. The full price is also worth the investment.
Eye Candy 5 Textures
Suggested Retail $99
Eye Candy 5 Nature
Suggested Retail $99
Eye Candy 5 Impact
Suggested Retail $99
Eye Candy 5 Textures/Nature/Impact Bundle.
Suggested Retail $199
Upgrade Price $49 each
To purchase the upgrade, you need to enter your
12-letter registration code from any of your Alien Skin products.
Eye Candy 5 Textures.
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Eye Candy 5 Nature.
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Eye Candy 5 Impact.
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www.alienskin.com
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