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Twisting Pixels - Photoshop Plugins & Filters

PixelSampler - Free Photoshop Filters Demo PackWhether you're looking for a memorable portfolio piece, an attention-grabbing set of enhancements, or an artistic masterpiece, Twisting Pixels is your source for a wide variety of Photoshop filters and plugins.

They're ideal for use on the web, for multimedia and in printed publications. These filters are also very popular with photographers who use them to create digital backdrops and digital backgrounds for their photos.

Twisting Pixels' collections offer full technical and customer support. Their products include a stand-alone application, as well as a plugin that works with Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.

You can download a trial version of any of the following collections from the Twisting Pixels website. Note that the trial versions will have a watermark that won't disappear until you enter a valid serial number from product purchase.

Also look out for a special bundled offer, featuring all of the Twisting Pixels filter collections packaged together for purchase at a combined rate!

Below are some mini reviews of the following products: PixelCreation Visual Effects & Tonal Filters Collection, PixelPaper Photoshop Plugin Filters, PixelPack Visual Effect Filters, and the Twisting Pixels Free PixelPack Photoshop Demo.

New Photoshop Plugin 'ArtStudioPro' From Twisting Pixels
Adobe Photoshop Blog | PhotoshopSupport.comTwisting Pixels has announced ArtStudioPro, a simple Photoshop plugin that will convert photos into paintings and drawings. ArtStudioPro includes over 30 special effect filters that help users create the look of a masterpiece with just a few clicks of the mouse. It's easy to create a natural-looking media by simply loading an image and choosing an effect media such as Colored Pencil, Crayon, Marker, Technical Pen or Watercolor.

ArtStudoPro includes 25 Supporting Effects: Colored Pencil Brush, Colored Pencil Fill, Colored Pencil Inside, Colored Pencil Outside, Colored Pencil Outline, Colored Pencil Shade Outline, Crayon Brush, Crayon Inside, Crayon Outside, Marker Brush, Marker Outside, Marker Strokes, Paper Texture, Restore Original, Technical Pen Brush, Technical Pen Outline, Underlayment, Watercolor Base, Watercolor Blend Strokes, Watercolor Brush, Watercolor Details, Watercolor Dry Strokes, Watercolor Wash, & Watercolor Wet Strokes.

PixelCreation Collection - Visual Effects & Tonal Filters
18 visual effect and tonal filters, all tinged with a celestial feeling. From twinkling stars to fluffy clouds, Pixel Creation provides you with layers for combining individual effects and presets for quick and easy results. You will get layers for combining effects, presets for a quick and easy start, as well as full technical and customer support.

There are 9 wonderful visual effect filters in PixelCreation, all of which can be used in conjunction with each other to create a truly unique image.

PixelCreation Collection - Visual Effects & Tonal FiltersMoonRing - you'll be able to recreate the appearance of ice crystals refracting from the light of the moon, in keeping with the folklore dictate that a ring around the moon signifies that bad weather is on its way.

Altocumulus ? you'll add delicately soft clouds to your sky. You can drop them between cumulus clouds, combining the two using a built-in layer feature. Clouds can be changed into night ones by adding black and gray to your color gradient slider, enabling you to create a mysterious nighttime moon scene.

Celestial Shapes - you can form stars into any shape, simply by selecting the included grayscale clipart or by importing your own. Instantly, you'll see your grayscale art turned into a star formation, either as glowing orbs or twinkling lights.

Constellation ? you can combine Northern Lights, Starry Night and Constellation together, again using the built-in layers feature. Included are the zodiac signs, as well as a selection of other popular constellations.

Cumulus ? you'll be able to shape fluffy clouds into your desired size and thickness that you can then place in any chosen area.

Milkyway ? you transform your simple starry night into a celestial experience by adding a milkyway to the scene. You can then colorize it, add star clusters or even planets.

MoonGlow ? when you apply this filter, a glowing moon will instantly appear in your scene. Phases of the moon are available to reflect each night of the month, as well as halos, glows and even an eclipse.

Starry Night ? you can apply little bursts of colorful stars to your night sky, using glowing hot orbs or twinkling rays of light. You can mix both star types to create a heavenly effect.

Northern Lights ? you'll add a touch of drama to your sky with an aurora of color. Simply draw a path using a pen tool and watch a ribbon of lights render before your eyes. You can then adjust the length, face, apply curve and variation using a slider or colorize using a gradient color picker.

In addition to the visual effect filters, PixelCreation also offers 9 tonal enhancement filters that can be applied to the filters or used alone. These provide yet another avenue for your celestial creativity, as the design possibilities are endless when you consider the possible effects that can be achieved using any combination of these 18 filters.

    Aura
    Color Intensity
    Colorize
    Glint
    Luminescent Brush
    Tonal Blur
    Tonal Intensity
    Tonal Sharpness
    Vibrancy 

PixelPaper Photoshop Plugin Filters
Pixel Paper also provides you with layers for combining effects, as well as presets for quick results. This collection features 7 realistic paper effects. You'll be able to turn your images into folded, crumpled and crinkled pieces of paper.

Bend ? this effect allows you to assume an angular shape to your image. You can easily choose a different direction by drawing a line across your design project. A line drawn downwards will cause the bend to go toward the right, while a line drawn upwards will bend your image to the left.

PixelPaper Photoshop Plugin FiltersCrinkle ? this lets you form wrinkles and ripples directly on your image.

Crumple ? you can crush together or press your image into a crumpled piece of paper, adding interesting texture to your design.

Crunch ? this effect is easy to manipulate, giving your image the appearance of crunched corners and sides.

Curl - you can raise and turn up the sides of your image. A light source will add highlights and shadows for a realistic appearance.

Fold ? make your image more compact by doubling or bending it over in parts. You can choose how many vertical or horizontal folds that you want by moving a slider.

Wave ? this effect creates the illusion of your image moving freely back and forth ? or up and down in the air. Use perspective to make it seem as though your image is branching out into the wind or turn it down low to give it the appearance of warped paper.
Get special bundles, and free demos at the Twisting Pixels site.

PixelPack I - Visual Effect Filters
Pixel Pack is a collection of 5 pretty amazing visual effect filters. They can be used in combination with each other, giving your images incredibly photorealistic effects.

PixelPaper Photoshop Plugin FiltersStain ? put any kind of cup stain on your image, ranging from coffee cups, wine glasses, water tumblers or Kool-aid sippers. Use the ellipse tool to place the stains or create your own shapes with a selection or mask.

Extrude ? this effect give the perception of protruding type or shapes. The 3D lighting feature can create a single shadow, or multiple extruded shadows from any height.

LabelMaker ? truly looks like type pushed through plastic, from an old-school labelmaker. Use the original label font or choose one of your own. Perspective curls up the ends and lighting adds highlights to the plastic & shadows.

RockCandy ? this effect creates ultra-realistic 3D shapes out of your mask or selection, providing you with the ultimate 3D Bevel effect. You can create everything from Glass to Aqua to solid rocks. The refraction feature creates an illusion of light and reflection turning or bending, which creates an optical density component in your RockCandy effect. Use the included bumpmap and surface patterns to give many texture combinations. Multiple light sources and light colors will let you create beautiful highlights and translucent shadows.

Texturizer ? this effect gives your image any desired texture through the process of blending through multiple bumpmaps, textures and lighting.
Get special bundles, and free demos at the Twisting Pixels site.

PixelSampler - Free Photoshop Filters Demo Pack
PixelSampler is a collection of visual effects for those of you seeking to achieve realistic film style results. You can adjust colors, light or tones in the included presets or create your own effect commands. PixelSampler gives you a wide variety of image enhancement options, all of which can be achieved without ever setting foot into a darkroom. Perhaps most appealing is that PixelSampler can be downloaded absolutely free from Twisting Pixels' website!

PixelSampler - Free Photoshop Filters Demo PackTonal Streak ? this effect streaks your image using either a motion blur or rotational blur. It will automatically streak the image farther wherever the image is brighter, giving the effect of a shaken camera.

Black and White ? this automatically uses a green and yellow filtering system, which reduces the transmission of blue light. Skies appear darker and clouds stand out more. Orange and red filters are used to lighten tones and darken those of other colors, which produce dramatically darkened skies.

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