BladePro is a wonderful
new shareware plug-in for Photoshop that does a lot of steps for you in building
3-D-look graphics. It’s wonderful capabilities make typography like the examples
here so effortless that we can forget about Dimensions or other stand-alone 3-D programs.
__ This is not to say that Blade is a replacement for
rendering or 3-D modeling programs, it’s not. But the type effects you can create
are stunning. It was also used for our “Best Gold” logo back on page 2, and in DT&G.
__ The neat thing about Blade is that you can stick
a texture right on the creation, and it looks great. I really liked the easy-to-use
secondary lighting control. (Note the green glow on the letters above.) This in itself
is worth it’s weight in ....
!__ The effects can be subtle or stark, raised or
sunken. There are several kinds of bevels, textures, and mirrorlike reflections,
and controls for light, gloss, iridescence, tarnish, glassiness, and more. It’s a
timesaving way to make touchable-looking text, web buttons, and special effects.
It works equally well for type or clip art.
__ BladePro is a plug-in filter that works with popular
paint programs like Photoshop, Color-It, Enhance, and Fractal Design Painter.
__ You can download BladePro from the Kagi web site,
but please folks... once you’ve recovered from the awesome stuff this little plug-in
does, please pay your shareware! Kagi Software, Berkeley CA (510) 601-5244 http://ccn.cs.dal.ca/~aa731/blade.html.
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