Eye Candy 5: Nature is a collection of ten Photoshop filters, which create fire, smoke, rust, snow, ice and more. The second of a three-part upgrade to Eye Candy 4000, Nature offers beautifully rendered effects that any novice or professional designer will appreciate. Nature includes four new filters and reincarnates six Eye Candy classics. The classic filters boast brand-new looks, greater realism, and improved ease-of-use. For example, select filters can create a new layer and render effects to it; this allows you to view, edit, or turn off these effects without modifying the original layer. Nature includes over 500 presets for frequently used effects; you can find the perfect effect quickly.

New and Classic Filters

Nature includes four new filters and reincarnates six Eye Candy classics. The classic filters boast brand-new looks, greater realism, and improved ease-of-use. For example, select filters create a new layer and render the effect to it; this allows users to view, edit, or turn off these effects without modifying the original layer.

Corona

Corona renders radiant solar flares, organic glows, eclipses and wispy auroras. You can also render coronas to a new layer, within the Eye Candy interface, without affecting the original selection.

Drip

Drip melts images, melds colours and renders dribbles that trickle from selections. Drip creates great wet paint effects on text. By tweaking melt controls, you can liquefy selections, artwork or photographic objects. Turn up the Yngwie Malmsteen and melt somebody's face.

Icicles (New)

Icicles drips icy stalactites from any selection and glazes surfaces with realistic ice. Icicles make great wintery text in a variety of colours and compliments Snow Drift nicely.

Rust (New)

From iron oxide to tarnished brass, Rust creates virtually any corrosion, as well as mould and mildew. Controls specify the size, colour and texture of rust spots. You can even drip rusty water streaks down the selection surface--like one might see on an aging steel roadside sign. Rust organically decays text, backgrounds and pictures of Yugos.

Snow Drift (new)

Snow Drift piles snow on any object, selection or text and sprinkles surfaces with light snow. Simple controls make it easy to simulate deep, wet snow or a light dusting of frost. By combining Icicles with Snow Drift, you can quickly winterize text or photos.

Water Drops

Water Drops splashes images with spheres, spurts, spills, spots and more. You can select the colour, opacity and viscosity of the drops to duplicate condensation, perspiration, rain drops, puddles and more.

Squint

Squint makes it easy to add a little bling-bling to your art. New features render brilliant light streaks from shiny highlights. From twinkling stars to the glare reflected from diamond encrusted dentures, Squint really sparkles in photos and on text. In addition, Squint retains its classic, radial blur and adds soft, dreamy light effects.

Smoke

Using two modes, Smoke simulates violent, volcanic eruptions, steam from a hot mug of coffee and anything in between. Control over colour, wavering and turbulence provide a flexible effect with many uses on text and in digital photographs.

Ripples (new)

Ripples, three modes create anything from perfect concentric waves to a rippled pond surface on a windy day. Adding reflection maps creates a reflective surface and refraction controls submerge and distort images. Drown photos of evil stepfathers with one click.

System Requirements

MAC

• 500 MHz PowerPC G3 processor
• 256 MB RAM

Mac OS X 10.2.6 or later Eye Candy 5: Nature is a plug-in and must be used with one of the following host programs:

• Adobe Photoshop 7 or later
• Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 or later
• Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004 or later

Windows

• 1 GHz Pentium III processor
• 256 MB RAM
• Windows 2000 or Windows XP

Eye Candy 5: Nature is a plug-in and must be used with one of the following host programs:

• Adobe Photoshop 7 or later
• Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 or later
• Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8 or later
• Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004 or later