About The Black Box 2.0

What is Cutout?
Cutout is one of the 10 filters in The Black Box 2.0.  The filter you received with this package is a demonstration version of the commercial Cutout filter.  The commercial version does not display the splash screen.  The demo is absolutely free and we encourage you to distribute it widely.  The Black Box 2.0 is not free.  You can purchase it using the order form at the end of this document.

Why is The Black Box 2.0 so great? 

Time Savings
The Black Box filters are huge time savers.  The filters in The Black Box produce effects that used to require complicated series of channel operations to achieve.  Now you can easily make parts of your image float, glow, or push out of the page by just clicking the OK button.

Previews
With version 2.0, you can preview a filter before running it on your entire image.  This interactivity helps you painlessly get each effect just right.  If you typically work with large images, then this feature will make experimentation fast and painless.

Photoshop 3 Layer Aware
All of the filters in The Black Box 2.0 work in Photoshop 3 layers.  In addition, Glow, Drop Shadow, Motion Trail, and Swirl edit transparency in layers.  These are the first third-party filters to edit transparency!  This means that you can put your company logo in a layer, make it glow, and then move the logo along with it's semi-transparent glow without mangling the rest of your composition.

Savable Settings
After you have painstakingly tweaked all of the sliders and knobs in one of our filters to the perfect positions, you can save those settings.  With this new feature, you can reproduce your favorite subtle drop shadow with the touch of a button.  To help you get started, there are over 100 presets.  To see typical uses of the filters, just start loading the presets that we supply!