AKVIS Decorator
unbelievable modifications in Photoshop
The Decorator plug-in allows you to change the surface of an object in a realistic manner ... with AKVIS Decorator you can create things that were unimaginable even to Mother Nature.
We know that AKVIS comes up with some pretty awesome products. Now, they've sent us news on the "Decorator" plug-in for Photoshop (Elements and many other programs) that cuts 90% of the work out of mapping image surfaces. That's pretty cool. Best of all, it does so with spectacular results.
Select a part of an image a dress on a girl, a car, a piece of furniture, etc, and apply new textures to it. The girl can have her dress painted in gay patterns, dotted or chequered, appear as if made of velvet or satin, or even of wood or candies. There is a great variety of built-in patterns to apply - from fabrics to stones and metal, from food to nature elements.
Unlike the "bucket-fill" tool in many photo editors, the plug-in follows the underlying features of the object, the texture that already exists, and makes the new color or texture look natural.
With this software you can quickly choose a suitable design for your apartment by playing with different colors and patterns for furniture, walls, curtains, decorations, etc. It s useful for designers to show the customers the same room in different versions or for web-designers to represent the same items in an online shop (china-ware, blankets, clothes, piece of furniture, etc) in different colors/patterns.
Try this: Your girl on Akvis
The program has a simple interface, easy grasped even for newbies. In the plug-in s window you select a texture for the object (you can adjust its color and frequency of the pattern), press the Run button and get a wonderful result. If needed, you can adjust the brightness and the angle of lighting. The program applies a texture preserving the volume of an object, following its folds and creases. The new pattern looks absolutely natural and makes you see things differently.
AKVIS Decorator Plug-in
* Compatible with Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, Corel Painter, Corel Photo-Paint, Paint Shop Pro and Ulead PhotoImpact.
* AKVIS Decorator runs on Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/NT and on Macintosh Mac OS X, PowerPC G3 and above.
* Price: $54 USD, downloadble from www.akvis.com
* Demonstrations of Decorator's features.
* Free trial, 10-day, fully functional Download: akvis.com/download-change-texture.php
Author: AKVIS LLC
url: http://akvis.com
audience: Windows & Mac designers, artists, photographers, or anyone who uses digital images and a Photoshop compatible image editing program
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