Alien Skin – Snap Art – Make A Photo Look Like A Painting
Posted by RustyHill - 12/11/09 at 09:11 pmIf a painted image tells your story better than digital pixels, Alien Skin’s Snap Art 2.0 is just the tool to convert photos to an image with that hand crafted look. Students, teachers, marketing and web designers can experience a variety of painting styles, with just a click of the mouse using Snap Art 2.0.
Snap Art 2.0 offers ten different filters for creating the perfect hand drawn artwork from a photo. Snap Art filters include: Color Pencil, Comics, Impresto, Oil Pant, Pastel, Pen and Ink, Pencil Sketch, Pointillism, Stylize, and Watercolor.
New in Snap Art 2.0:
• Higher levels of photo-realism
• Control over the level of photo-realism with a slider
• Adjustable focus regions control where detail is preserved
• Improved presets
• Photoshop CS4 panel
Clean & Easy Interface
Each Snap Art filter opens in a clean, easy-to-use interface that provides intuitive defaults and the power of custom adjustments. By selecting “Settings” tab, this interface provides a selection of more than 700 factory preset settings. Custom settings can be saved and reused enhancing efficiency. The default and custom settings can be adjusted with sliders after selecting one of the four adjustment tabs: Basic, Color, Canvas or Lighting on the user interface.
The addition of focus regions enables control over how the filter is applied to the image. Typically, the focus region is placed over the subject, or a specific portion to preserve important detail.
Example Images
To illustrate the film effects provided by Snap Art 2.0, an image was selected from photos taken with a Nikon D200 (10 MP sensor), and processed in Photoshop CS4 using Snap Art factory presets. Crops of the original and processed images are presented below.
Original Photo
Art’s Color Pencil filter using Abstract (large pencil preset)
Color Comics – large feature size, vignette preset
Snap Art’s Watercolor filter using Landscape (moderate realism)
Snap Art’s Watercolor filter using Landscape – Large Brush, abstract colors preset
The above images are just a taste of the over 700 presets available in Snap Art 2.0. Use one of the presets to obtain the desired natural art look, then employ the controls in the four adjustment tabs to fine tune the image with the full creative power of Snap Art 2.0. Alien Skin offers a free 21-day download to experience Snap Art 2.0.
System Requirements:
This product requires one of the following host applications:
- Adobe Photoshop CS3 or later
- Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0.1 or later on Mac
- Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 or later on Windows
- Adobe Fireworks CS4
- Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2
Windows:
- Intel Pentium 4 processor (or compatible)
- Windows XP or later
Macintosh:
- PowerPC G5 processor or Intel processor
- Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later
Contact: www.alienskin.com
Cost: $199 full version