ALDUS GALLERY EFFECTS: CLASSIC ART TRANSFORMS IMAGES INTO ART
Welcome to the Gallery Effects: Classic Art, Volume 1 sampler! This sampler gives you the opportunity to experiment with the Watercolor effect, one of the 16 artistic effects in Gallery Effects: Classic Art, Volume 1.
ABOUT THE WATERCOLOR EFFECT
The Watercolor effect paints the image in watercolor style using a medium brush loaded with water and color. The color appears to have dried on smooth paper, leaving dark concentrations of pigment around the edges of the dabs.
Brush Detail
Move the slider towards 1 to paint with less detail, or towards 14 to paint with more detail.
Shadow Intensity
Move the slider towards 0 to add fewer shadows to the image, or towards 10 to add more shadows.
Texture
Choose from different texture levels: 1 for smoother texture, up to 3 for a rougher texture.
USING THE WATERCOLOR EFFECT
The settings dialog box lets you change and preview the Watercolor effect’s settings. The upper left of the dialog box shows a miniature view of the original image or selection.
Drag the floating frame over the part of the image you want to preview. The area within the frame appears in the box labeled Before. Click the Preview button to preview the effect. After a short delay, a preview of the effect applied to the framed image appears in the box labeled After.
Adjust the controls at the bottom left of the dialog box to experiment with different settings. Each time you adjust the controls, click Preview to see the effect of the new settings. These settings can be saved for later use.
After adjusting the settings, click the Apply button to apply the effect to the image.
WHAT IS GALLERY EFFECTS: CLASSIC ART, VOLUME 1?
Aldus Gallery Effects is a growing family of automatic image-enhancement products. Aldus Gallery Effects: Classic Art, Volume 1 is a library of artistic effects that automatically transforms scanned photographs and other bitmapped images into dramatic painting-like artwork.
Gallery Effects: Classic Art, Volume 1 includes 16 master effects designed to recreate a variety of classic art styles: Charcoal, Chalk & Charcoal, Chrome, Craquelure, Dark Strokes, Dry Brush, Emboss, Film Grain, Fresco, Graphic Pen, Mosaic, Poster Edges, Ripple, Smudge Stick, Spatter, and Watercolor. You can customize the effects for thousands of variations, as well as save up to 25 settings for each effect for future use.
Using the effects is remarkably easy. Simply open a scanned photograph or other bitmap image, choose the desired artistic effect and then click a button to apply the effect to the image. Thumbnail views of the image let you preview the effect before applying it. The effects can be applied to selection areas or to an entire image. Multiple effects can be applied to the same image for additional variations.
PUSH-BUTTON ART
Gallery Effects gives graphic designers and general users the power to simply click a button and create vivid, dramatic art easily, reliably, and consistently. Gallery Effects lets graphic artists save time creating artwork and allows general users to easily create impressive images. With Gallery Effects: Classic Art, Volume 1, you’ll be creating impressive artistic images in less time than it takes paint to dry!
APPLICATIONS AND USES
Gallery Effects can be used for a variety of purposes:
* Creating original artwork
* Adding impact to scanned photographs for use in desktop - publishing newsletters, brochures, handbooks, magazines, annual reports, advertisements
* Giving a consistent appearance to photographs
* Adding vitality to graphics for use in presentations, multimedia, and video
* Transforming architectural renderings into painted visual concepts
PLUG-IN FILTERS
Gallery Effects includes “plug-in” filters that can be seamlessly integrated into these graphics programs to provide convenient access to the effects:
* Aldus SuperPaint® 3.0
* Aldus® Digital Darkroom™
* Adobe Photoshop‚Ñ¢
* Adobe Premiere‚Ñ¢
* ColorStudio® 1.5
* PixelPaint Professional‚Ñ¢ 2.0
* Fractal Design Painter‚Ñ¢
* StrataVision 3d‚Ñ¢ 2.5
* Other programs that use Photoshop-compatible plug-in filters
By adding Gallery Effects to any of the above programs, you significantly increase your image-enhancement capabilities.
STAND-ALONE APPLICATION
In addition, you can apply the effects from within the stand-alone application that is supplied with Gallery Effects. The application lets you open images, apply the effects to them, then save and print the results without the need for any other program.
SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
When using the plug-in filters within other programs, the system configuration is determined by the host product.
PRICE
The suggested retail price for Aldus Gallery Effects: Classic Art, Volume 1 is $199 (US).
For more information on Aldus Gallery Effects, visit your authorized Aldus dealer or distributor, or contact:
Aldus Corporation
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Seattle, Washington, 98104
Telephone: 206-628-2320
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