KPT Effects | 
| From: procreate
Category: Software
Buy New: $47.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 16814
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 95
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows 95
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 3.8 x 3.2 x 0.8
UPC: 735163087857
EAN: 0735163087857
ASIN: B00005Q79J
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Amazon.com Product Description
KPT Effects is a collection of nine new Adobe Photoshop-compatible plug-ins designed to quickly add effects to digital images. Enhancing the creative power of Adobe Photoshop and other compatible applications, KPT Effects enables designers to apply effects that range from practical to fantastic. pSeparate an image into color regions to give it the look and feel of an actual painting with KPT Pyramid Paint. The KPT Fluid plug-in lets users make an image look as if it were floating on a pool of liquid. Users can add liquid distortion effects to images and create short animations. With KPT Lightning people can create realistic lightning effects by controlling every aspect of the bolt and path. Users can choose from geometrical shapes, including cylinder, sphere, or cube, and apply pinch or vortex styles to create complex tiling effects that can be transformed through four-dimension space by using KPT Hyper Tiling.pKPT Scatter's 2-D particle system scatters an imported image or a grid of images in a pattern over your original image. KPT Channel Surfing allows users to apply blur, contrast, and sharpen effects to any or all of the RGB, hue, luminance, or saturation channels. With KPT Ink Dropper, you can add drops of liquid to a surface to create everything from water spots to smoky swirls. KPT FraxFlame II features an improved rendering engine and increased navigational control, allowing for the creation of stunning fractals. Get even more control when generating gradients with KPT Gradient Lab.
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| Customer Reviews:
Really good set of limitless filters September 2, 2002
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Overview.pThis set of filters is very versatile and by using the sliders with each separate filter, the results are almost limitless.pFeatures.pA collection of nine individual Photoshop compatible filters.pEach has it's own set of calibrations to create unique effects.pFull-color 110 page booklet, contains instructions and descriptions.pVery easy to use.pUse on any bitmapped image.pWindows and Mac supported.pDescription.pThe filters allow an amazing number of changes to any image, and presets are already loaded, so experimenting is easy. Each change of effect may be saved, so you can go back to whichever one you liked by comparing all the effects you have saved.pYour own presets can be saved and installed each time you use the program.pThe booklet contains really helpful information on what each of the blending modes will do. This is important because a lot of this functionality is ignored by the beginner. Seeing the different results in color is an important way of explaining what is likely to happen. I never could work it out from text descriptions.pThe workspace can be set up in whatever form you choose, and then saved in the manner that best suits your working practices.pFluid effects can be saved as a movie which gives much more interesting effects.pGradient effects are very detailed and once again the blending modes are explained by graphic images, not text.pHyper Ttiling mode allows for some very interesting effects and can be used with transparency to allow the overlaying of one image on another. This effect allows rotation of images to view in 3D modes.pInk Dropper can give the effect of different colors and viscosities as they are dropped onto paper.pLightning can apply a realistic lightning effect, but can also be used to add other colors and blending modes and variations of the number of streaks and branches.pPyramid paint works with color and threshold and intensity. The mechanics of this are easier to see when using the filter than using explanations.pFinally, Scatter allows the importation or manipulation of particles to add variation to your image.pOf course you can import any image you have saved from any filter and put it in any other filter and re-work the image.pBottom Line.pThis set of filters are a lot of fun and the controls are really simple and the effects are easy to view in real time to decide if you want to save it or not. Saving the distortion at any time, with the ability to return to that state if you feel that you need to, is very useful.pA very good and well balanced set of filters. Well worth investigating if you need/want very powerful and interesting effects, not just distortion. They can complement any filters you already have, and don't duplicate any standard ones you may have.
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