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Prior to the addition of the text warping feature in PS 6, flowing text in creative ways was a difficult process. I purchased this plug-in about a year ago to circumvent the difficulties but.... To begin with, this program does all that it claims to. It simply is not as easy to use or as versitile as one would think from reading the Ads. I found,right off the bat, that the instructions were less than comprehensive and as a result figuring out how the interface worked and didnt work was daunting. Forget the quick application of flowed text. You have to spend some time learning this program and once that has been done, you still have to contend with such things as resolution,the confusing interface and other little items in order to get any decient results. I finally, after 6 months, became so fed up with this plug-in that I sent it to the electronic version of perdition, never to see the light of day in my plug-in menu again. In short, this is a complicated program which didnt save time and was not much fun to use. Save your money would be my suggestion. There must be something better out there. As for me..I have yet another bottle of magic snake oil to add to my collection of useful things like my "In the shell egg scrambler". It is rare that I find a piece of software which I consider to be a total waste of money but this one comes very close. I didnt provide a link for this one as if you are interested enough to track it down, perhaps you have the ability to make it work right. I sure dont. Tom
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Let me guess, you didn't like this plug in much.
I never heard of it but now that Photoshop 6 has improved it's text features, this software may be going in the direction you threw it anyway. It's a shame if you paid good money for it only to become frustrated enough to toss it. Glad you took the time to air your views on it before some one else get it uninformed about the difficulties.
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Dj, It's not the first bottle of "snake oil" which I have talked myself into buying and it wont be the last I suspect. I simply hope that folks reading these reviews will, in some small way, benefit both from the wise and not so wise choices I have made over the fullness of time. TomComment
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This plug-in from Future Fantastic is a difficult one to review. To begin with it is definately High end as in expensive. What it does is to produce Flares,Glows and other assorted effects and it does it very well. However, there are a few down points. The interface, while touted as being improved from...09-05-2001, 09:33 AM -
There are hundreds of stand alone and plug in type software applications out there all promising really neat things. It's hard to seperate the hype from the truth,at least for me, SO.... What things should you be thinking Before you buy a program? Where do you get info on what they will Really do as...08-24-2001, 12:04 PM
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Doug, If this isnt the right place for a plug-in review, I apologise. I trust it will be hearded to the right pasture.
Of all the Plug-in filters I have tried over the years, this little number from Flaming Pear software is one which I use almost every day. It's claim to fame is it's remarkable...09-02-2001, 10:58 PM -
I had wondered for some time about this plug-in and after trying a demo with only so-so results and reading what I could find, I decided to buy it as, I reasoned, Demos usually leave out the really neat stuff. In this case they didnt. Reading the Ads one would be led to believe that this program could...09-03-2001, 09:40 PM
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With all the plug-in applications out there it is sometimes easy to forget that the most powerful ones you can get, you already have--built in to your Image editing program. The attached examples were done in 20 minutes, start to finish using only PS 6 and its Dust/scratch filter,layering and layer...10-03-2001, 09:20 PM
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