Twist and Fade 2004 released Oct 19. 040
Steven Grosvenor has finished work on his new ‘Twist and Fade’ command for Fireworks MX 2004.
Improvements in v4.0.8 include:
- More than 30% faster than previous version
- More granular control of the effect with Phase Shift, Horizontal and Vertical Scale and Motion Blur controls
- Preset Manager to save your favourite effects, preloaded with several interesting effects
- New Sliders with dual feedback, via slider for coarse changes, or via input boxes for exact changes
It’s free and you can download it here.
Photo re-touching plug-ins for Fireworks Oct 02. 040
Jan Esmann is an artist who has written a collection of photo editing and restoration plug-ins for Fireworks. Plug-ins include:
- Black & White Studio
- Sharpness Editor
- Toned photos
- Dynamic range Compression
- Lens distortion correction
- Transparency Editor
- Contrast Editor
- Color correction
- Anti-aliasing
- Black definition
- Exposure correction
- Saturation Editor
- White-balance correction
- Radial density correction
- Noise Filter
- Edgeline drawing
- Posterizer
- Soft-filter
- Brightness Editor
The plug-ins are priced individually but you can also purchase the entire set for �100. No idea whether the plug-ins are any cop, but there seem to be a lot of positive testimonials on the his site.
‘Inspire’ AutoShape for Fireworks Oct 02. 040
Trevor McCauley writes:
When I was a kid I drew a lot. When I couldn’t think of anything to draw, I would close my eyes and randomly mark 12 dots on a blank piece of paper. Then I would connect the dots and examine the resulting shape to figure out what it could be – what I would attempt to draw next. This shape attempts to do the same. I called it Inspire as it acts like (and was influenced by) my inspiration technique as a child. All it does is creates a random shape on your screen.
If you feel you’re running out of ideas, maybe this shape can send some inspiration your way.
‘Orb’ AutoShape for Fireworks Sep 28. 040
A nice and simple new AutoShape from Steven Grosvenor which allows you to create a glassy orb, with control over shadow opacity, base color, overlay color and globe shadow color.
