KPT Effects

by procreate

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005Q79N
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 31, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,890 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Optimized for Mac OS X, KPT Effects is a collection of nine new Adobe Photoshop-compatible plug-ins designed to quickly add effects to digital images. Enhancing the creative power of Adobe Photoshop and other compatible applications, KPT Effects enables designers to apply effects that range from practical to fantastic.

Separate an image into color regions to give it the look and feel of an actual painting with KPT Pyramid Paint. The KPT Fluid plug-in lets users make an image look as if it were floating on a pool of liquid. Users can add liquid distortion effects to images and create short animations. With KPT Lightning people can create realistic lightning effects by controlling every aspect of the bolt and path. Users can choose from geometrical shapes, including cylinder, sphere, or cube, and apply pinch or vortex styles to create complex tiling effects that can be transformed through four-dimension space by using KPT Hyper Tiling.

KPT Scatter's 2-D particle system scatters an imported image or a grid of images in a pattern over your original image. KPT Channel Surfing allows users to apply blur, contrast, and sharpen effects to any or all of the RGB, hue, luminance, or saturation channels. With KPT Ink Dropper, you can add drops of liquid to a surface to create everything from water spots to smoky swirls. KPT FraxFlame II features an improved rendering engine and increased navigational control, allowing for the creation of stunning fractals. Get even more control when generating gradients with KPT Gradient Lab.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More to these filters than meets the eye, October 30, 2001

By 

christopher cowan (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: KPT Effects (CD-ROM)

This is the first release by Corel of a KPT product, the previous were re-badged after being bought from MetaCreations. Reading a description of a filter doesn't really do it justice. Scatter is one of my favourites, and while it does scatter images over a pattern until you play with it you can't really judge the variations possible. You can create a series of spiral arms, or add a load of images in a mask to fill a shape, create a blanket of snow with a ragged edge. Similairly with the lightning effect you can control and create very realistic lightning, or make a comet, or a coloured laser beam. Hypertiling is very powerful, and it can create some interesting patterns. The pyramid paint allows some impressionist type images to be made quickly, but it can also be used to totally chnage the colours in an image to change a desert into an artic scene.
To get the most out of the filters you need to experiment, which has always been the case with KPT filters. Using the recall panel and saving presets makes it easy to get back to an interesting setting.
It is good to see a four colour landscape manual in the box too.