xylograph

Xylograph is a Photoshop plugin for curve line halftoning effects like woodcut, gravure or guilloche, and various "screen lines" effects.

Full control over halftone line density, orientation, curvature and line direction variations over image zones of different brightness.

Fully compatible with various image editors, from Adobe, Corel and Ulead image editors to freeware like IrfanView or XnView.

AmphiSoft plugins contain 10 Photoshop plugins to create special effects and photo retouch. Effects include painterly look (watercolor and dry brush), line halftone (engraving, woodcut, guilloche, TV-screen), metallic effect, misc softening, sharpening, hi pass and edge-emphasizing methods.

Filters provide unique "wrap around" processing for seamless tiles. Fully compatible with various image editors, from Adobe, Corel and Ulead image editors to freeware like IrfanView or XnView.

Here are some key features of "AmphiSoft plugins":

· "Metalwork II" (now based on Mr. Smith chopping engine) help you easily convert flat text or logo to shiny 3D metallic object or turn your mate into Terminator

· Raster master: from basic TV-screen to delicate woodcut effects, from simple textures to weird moire - one filter does it all. Although its not powerful enough to produce guilloche for a fake dollars, it may help you earn some real ones.

· Xylograph is another kind of halftone filter, centered on simulating hand-drawn halftone of varied angle seeng in many engravings, as well as texture of xylograph prints.

· Two "Shaman" filters ("Convolution shaman" and "Sorting shaman") are developed to give you all the necessary basic functions like blur, sharpen, edge detection and sharpening, despecle and many others. What makes these filters special is a whole set of necessary extras and options like apply mode switching or "wrap apound" processing (ideal for seamless patterns) - just to name a few. What makes the filters truly unique is a "Soft apply threshold" functionality for very delicate photo restoration job. Now fixing a bad scan or video capture does not require a lot of masking, switching color spaces and whole power of top image editors - take a quick tour to see how easy it can be done by "Shaman" plug-in filters under any compatible host application!

· "ArtiFactor" and "Kinetics lab" are very complex feedback image processing filters, giving wild effects and producing "organic" textures (the background of this page has started this way). Explore bacteria growth and extremely complex kinetics of Belousov pulse chemical reaction transferred into familiar world of graphics!

· "Thread master" is a free plug-in filter providing cross-shaped smudge effect with many options.

· "Out of the noise" - created on public demand. Many image editing programs lack "add noise" and "diffuse" filtering capabilities. If you suffer from this - just plug this freeware module in to fix it!

· "Simplifier" plugin provides a wide range of "painterly" artistic effects by simplifying image colors and edges. Please check out the larger preview of several effects.