Digital Photographer's Software Guide - Bertemes - Net

Comments
Filters Unlimited was launched a few years back with less than half the number of filters
it has today. Even then, some reviewers hailed it as the most useful Photoshop utility
they had seen. It lets you stack multiple filters and toggle between the original and
the filtered image. Other effects packages offer special effects that are more subtle and
original, but few of them match Filters Unlimited on quantity and value.
Version: Filters Unlimited 2.0.3 (2008)
Plugs into: Photoshop 3 and up, CS1, CS2, and CS3; Photoshop Elements 2 and up; Paint Shop
Pro 5 and up; CIEBV PhotoLine 5 and up; Micrografx Picture Publisher 7 and up; Ulead Photo
Impact 4 and up
OS: Windows 95, 98, 98 SE, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, and Vista
RAM: 128MB
Supported file formats: Major formats in RGB, CMYK, and grayscale
Price level: Approx. $40
Address: I.C.NET Software GmbH, Michael Johannhanwahr, Robert-Bunsen-Str. 70, 28357
Bremen, Germany
www.icnet.de
HumanEyes Capture3D for Photographers
Chapter 15 ■ Special Effects 185
Vendor: HumanEyes
Purpose: Add depth illusion effects to ordinary photographs to simulate 3D for advertising applications
Description
HumanEyes Capture3D for Photographers creates a real (“peek-behind-it”) 3D image
from pictures taken with conventional photographic equipment, including an ordinary
digital camera and a tripod/arm. It comes with guidelines for optimizing a 3D scene,
but once you have taken suitable pictures, it goes to work using special algorithms to
create the 3D effect.
Photographs taken with Capture3D can be used online or printed with the vendor’s
PrintPro 2.0 application, which also includes the creative software. There is an upgrade
to PrintPro for those who need it. In print form its intended use is for business cards,
direct mail, product packaging, posters, and point of sale materials.
Comments
Displayed on a computer with an animation effect to “look behind” the featured objects,
the output from Capture3D works very well, but is naturally dependent on the quality of
the initial captures. The photographer needs to make sure that the image contains good
depth cues from perspective, lighting, texture, occluded objects, and relative object sizes.