Slick design made easy.
Alien Skin Eye Candy 6 is a set of 30 Photoshop filters that elegantly handle a wide range of design tasks, from slick Web interfaces to tasteful logos to spectacular titles. Realistic simulation of natural phenomena gives beautifully detailed results. Eye Candy's simple interface makes it easy, saving you loads of time in Photoshop.
Eye Candy 6 is a Photoshop plug-in that renders beautiful effects for a wide range of graphic design tasks. Every situation is handled elegantly by Alien Skin EyeCandy 6 - from slick Web interfaces (Chrome, Glass, Perspective Shadow) to tasteful logos (Bevel, Brushed Metal, Extrude) to spectacular titles (Chrome, Corona, Fire).
A deceptively simple user interface makes Alien Skin Eye Candy 6 easy to use even though it contains 30 filters and over 1000 presets. Presets of Alien Skin Eye Candy 6 adapt to fit your current image size, making slider tweaking unnecessary. The result is that you spend much less time in Photoshop. Alien Skin Eye Candy 6 is made for demanding production environments with features like CMYK mode, multi-core CPU acceleration, 64-bit Photoshop support, two custom panels, and Smart Filters.
Whats new in Alien Skin Eye Candy 6
Performance. Under the hood; the Eye Candy rendering engine has changed significantly. You will notice that the filters of Alien Skin Eye Candy 6 are much faster and can run on much larger images than before. If you have a computer with one or more multi-core CPUs, Eye Candy 6 will take advantage of the modern hardware to accelerate its rendering speed.
Scaling Modes. Alien Skin Eye Candy 6 adaptively scales filter effects to the current image size, making it easy to get great looking results quickly. Factory settings of Candy 6 now work better than ever in the new adaptive mode. For those who want precise control in a graphic design production environment, Eye Candy 6 also supports a fixed mode, which allows the filter effects to be specified precisely in pixel units.
Settings. Settings of Alien Skin Eye Candy 6 have been reorganized and now have categories. If you are new to a filter, the Settings Tour category takes you on a trip through the filter’s most interesting effects of filters in Alien Skin Eye Candy 6 . The factory settings were completely remade. There are now over 1500 carefully designed settings that handle a wide range of common design tasks.
Fire. The Fire filter now looks more natural. Sharp edges have been smoothed to look more like realistic gaseous flames.
Panels. Panels for Photoshop CS4 are provided for starting Eye Candy 6 filters with a single click and for quickly creating attractive buttons.
Non-Destructive Editing. All of the filters in Alien Skin Eye Candy 6 now have the option to draw their output on a new layer. In Eye Candy 5 this feature was only available on some filters and it didn’t work the same for all filters. Now all filters in Eye Candy 6 consistently apply their effect to a copy above the original layer. The new layer is named after the setting used. All of the filters work as Smart Filters when applied to Smart Objects in Photoshop. These features contribute to a non-destructive workflow.
Professional Features. Alien Skin Eye Candy 6 is made for professionals in demanding production environments who need support for 16-bit/channel images and CMYK mode. Eye Candy 6 now takes advantage of multi-core CPUs to run fast on modern machines. Eye Candy 6 is one of the first plug-ins to work with the 64-bit version of Photoshop.
