Still Effects
Still Effects is an online Photoshop effects library for professional designers and photographers, to which you can subscribe for a modest fee and get unlimited downloads. It offers visual effects that you can add to images such as wedding or portrait photographs, poster prints or web graphics. All the effects are ready-to-use, but you can customize them without any restrictions. The vendor lets you change the color, transparency, shape, size, or resolution of the effect, or even combine them by dropping them on top of each other.
Among the purely photographic effects are HighKey Mask, Translucent, Chalk, Hand-Printed, and Duplex-S-Flat -- and these names give some idea of what they look like. There are also other cateogories, such as Artistic Media, Graphic Print, Fabrics and Nostalgie, each with several different styles.
Each downloaded effect consists of a square and a rectangular version for both portrait and landscape dimensions. The default settings are 8 x 8 inches and 8 x 10 inches, scalable to poster size.
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Wedding photographers have spoken of how they've searched the Internet for these kind of effects, without success until finding this online selection from the Netherlands. Others have mentioned that their sales of enlargements has increased since using them.
Do great photos really need special effects? You may be skeptical, but these designs are undeniably attractive, being slightly understated in comparison to many of those on the market. They are worth a look.
Tech info
- Plugs into: Photoshop 7 and above; Elements (all)
- OS: Windows XP onward; Mac OS 9, OS X
- Price level: (unlimited download) 79 euros (approx. $90)
StillEffects.com
StillEffects.com (formerly Mega-Graphic Digitals) is a software development and online service company, based in Helmond, The Netherlands.
From the same vendor:
- Still Effects archive on DVD
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