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Andrew's Plug-in VOL. 15     US $5 DOWNLOAD Single plug-in for color effects packed with 1000s effects Inc. many different color filters + gradient combinations Plug-in includes 100 output modes (inverse etc) Plug-in includes 20 effects modes (blur, smear, sepia etc) Great for digital photography / image manipulation Includes presets / stored settings (save your own effects) From the developer of the 'Andrew's Filters' series Use plug-in in RGB CMYK Grayscale etc Scripting included, use in Photoshop actions / batch 18 Gradient / blend post options - millions of more effects 1000s and 1000s and 1000s of stunning effects Install via the plugins folder of Photoshop / PSP etc Includes frames options, tiles for patterns etc 15.2.5 February 10th 2008 (Update of core plug-ins for Vista) PC Windows Vista + Windows XP Photoshop® CS4 CS3 + CS2 + CS + 7 + 6 + Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 X1 X 9 8 + Corel ® Painter + Photo-Paint + PhotoImpact + Photoshop Elements 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 + others 32 BIT ONLY   Sampler plug-in Manual / documentation of the plug-ins Gallery / selection of images

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Easy to use

Single easy to use color effects plug-in

Filter effects

50+ Filter effects for color effects (Inversion filter / Basic intensity filter / Grayscale / color combo filter / Darkening filter / Pixel multiplication filter / Max and min color filter / Foreground combination color filter / Tinting filter / Reduce contrast filter / Threshold filter / Channel mixing filter ... and many filter settings)

Gradient settings

32 Gradient types such as linear / radial / corner gradient / multi-gradient, these are mixed with the filter effects in many different ways

Gradient input options

22 Gradient input options, various source controls on the gradient.

Blending modes

100 Blending modes such as tiling and mirror and color wrap and dark edge. The blending mode takes the resulting effect and inverts or tiles the effect (great for patterns and designs) or wraps the color based on black and white limits for the image and many more. The plug-in can also also be used with the Photoshop blending modes and applied in multiply mode, difference mode.. as well as fading the effect.

Effects modes

20 Effects modes in one great plug-in (effects modes are effects generated using the effect as a source and not the original image, for effects such as blur and smears.. truly create unique and wow imagery)

Gradient 2

An additional application of another 100+ Gradient2 options can be applied to the result (red green blue and gradient mixing), creating even more amazing color effects and designs

Variants

Approx 3 billion variants before even adding in randomization FG BG combos, slider settings... a true power plug-in

Experimentation

You can experiment and explore a whole range of color effects using the various randomization buttons included in the set such as grad2 (randomizes the gradient 2 applications) Juggle (minor randomization), filter button (randomizes the 49 odd filter effects) Color (randomizes the color output for red and green and blue), blend button (randomizes the output blend modes), grad1 (randomizes the primary gradient settings), extreme (major randomization for a vast range of effects). Use the alt-X to repeat and repeat the randomization. The settings can also be saved as a preset and re-used at a later point (the randomization itself is not saved so if one of the elements is a randomized-blue etc.. then you won't be able to save the actual result, just the initial setting)

Reset

With all these features there are probably times you just want to go back to the factory default, just click the reset button.

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Using foreground color settings (FG)

1) Change the foreground color to RED, this plug-in effect using the foreground color setting in the toolbox (all the filters using the foreground are marked with FG in the plug-in dropdown)

2) Set the filter setting to filter 11 <FG>, this signifies a foreground filter effect.

3) Apply effect, a negative foreground manipulated filter effect

4) Go to the drop down in the middle of the main dialog and set the color to be used: 0 - FG RND. This means the color used by the filter effect will now not be RED but a random color between 0 and RED, i.e. a darker red.

5) End result, a darker inverted red image effect

The foreground color varies from application to application, for Photoshop the FG color is available via the toolbox. In Paint Shop Pro, access the FG color via the materials palette.

The effect can be quickly changed to a blue effect or green or purple etc effect by simply changing the FG and re-applying the effect to the original image. Many variant color effects can be achieved by re-applying to the end result as well, perhaps applying to an individual channel or using layers or blending modes within Photoshop or other applications.