Lucis art LucisArt alternative?

[MitchellB]

Hello all. after seeing some stuff created using the Lucis Art Photoshop plugin I went to their site to download it...yowser$$$$$$$$$

Any tutorials or cheaper alternatives??

[Lasa]

I've in the past been able to do similar stuff using the unsharpen to weird limits..sample:
Amount: 180-250
Radius: 5-8
Threshold: 0-1

Then blend the modes the layers.
Lasa

[palms1]

Here is a link to one tutorial

http://www.innographx.com/forum/view...650dc050ffd7d5

and another one well two if you look at the link in the post

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...ssage=19862641


Palms

[I. V. Razmanov]

You may consider giving a try to this:

http://photoshop.msk.ru/aspd/

[plugsnpixels]

LucisArt is quite unique in what it does. If you're able to duplicate a particular narrow point along its spectrum of effects by some other means, it'll still be more work than just running the plug-in ;-). It's the old time vs. money debate.

As for the cost, discounts are available.

[lkroll]

GIMP's ACE (adaptive contrast enhancement) filter can mimic some of the lucis effects that I've seen. Like GIMP, this plugin is free too. Can be found here.

[palms1]

Here is another tutorial which uses a local contrast enhancer ( link in tut) from member enigmaphoto

http://enigma-photos.com/LucisArtTutorial/index.htm

Palms

[MitchellB]

thanks folks...sorry for the delay.

[palms1]

Another link to look at
http://www.flickr.com/groups/strobis...7594577686705/

Palms