Digital Photographer's Software Guide - Bertemes - Net

■ The framing utility alone allows you to choose among 100 frames, including
traditional wood frames, Dover, and geometric borders.
■ Edging provides decorative edge effects, such as halftone dots, torn paper, and
pixelated edges.
■ Border Stamp adds realistic drop shadows and other effects, including a facility for
using any object (pebble, pill, ticket, and so on) as a border decoration to be replicated
around the photo. Fill Stamp does the same inside the image.
■ Mosaic features in the Patchwork module include light pegs, ASCII art, ceramic
tile, and cross-stitch.
■ Texture facilities are called “Resurface” in splat!—perhaps to underline the fact that
photographers can use this package as well as designers who start with a blank page.
Among the textures are paper, concrete, leather, brick, stone, metal, and wood.
Comments
This package appears to be aimed more at the scrapbooking market than at people who
pursue serious photography. Like all Alien Skin products, there is plenty of bang for the
buck, if rather too much bang for some tastes. Because of the huge size of the content
files the vendor supplies the software on disk, with additional frame archives available
online from many sources.
Version: splat! 1.0 (2008)
Plugs into: Windows and Mac—Photoshop 5.0 or later, Photoshop Elements 2.0 or later,
Fireworks 3.0 or later; Windows only—Paint Shop Pro 5.0 or later; CADLink SignLab 7.5
OS: Windows 2000, XP, and Vista; Mac OS X 10.4.0 or later
RAM: 128MB
Supported file formats: As host
Price level: Approx. $100
Address: Alien Skin, 1111 Haynes Street, Suite 113, Raleigh, NC 27604, United States
www.alienskin.com
Still Effects
Chapter 15 ■ Special Effects 191
Vendor: Mega-Graphic Digitals
Purpose: Photoshop effects archive, on DVD and online, for professional photographers
Description
Still Effects is an online Photoshop effects library for professional designers and photographers,
also available on DVD. It offers visual effects that can be added to images
such as wedding or portrait photographs, poster prints, or Web graphics. All the effects