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Architecture: PPC PPC (Carbonized)
Alien Skin Eye Candy 4000
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A set of 23 Photoshop-compatible filters. Those carried over from Eye Candy 3 have been improved with new features.
- Top DL: Full set of Eye Candy 4000 filters for classic Mac OS 8.6 - 9.2.2
- 2nd DL: Full set of Eye Candy 4000 filters (Carbon) for classic Mac OS 9.0 - Mac OS X 10.5.8 - In StuffIt 5.5 compatible ".sit" archive.
- 3rd DL: Demo install of Eye Candy 4000 filters (Carbon) for Mac OS 8.6 to OS X 10.5.8 - Three of the included filters are complete and not crippled. This demo includes the fully functioning filters; "Glass", "Marble" and the excellent "Shadowlab".
- 4th DL: Final update installer to take Eye Candy 4000 to version 4.3.0 - Updates either of the top 2 full install sets. For Mac OS X only. Do not use this if you want to run these under a classic Mac OS. Use the built-in Mac OS X zip utility to extract the updater correctly.
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Fully enabled filters included with Eye Candy 4000:
Name Function Classic & Carbon Carbon (demo) Antimatter: Inverts a selection’s brightness without affecting hue and saturation values. Yes — Bevel Boss: Creates an enormous variety of bevel and carve shapes. Yes — Chrome: Uses reflection maps to create a wide range of realistic metallic effects, including gold, silver, copper and other metals. Yes — Corona: Creates solar flares, gaseous clouds and other astronomical effects. Yes — Cutout: Makes your selection appear as a hole in the image by adding shadows. Yes — Drip: Instantly turns text and images into dripping paintings with 3D-like drops. Yes — Fire: Creates a wide range of fire and flame-like effects. Yes — Fur: A variety of fur and hair effects: fuzzy textures, wavy curls, long strands and more. Yes — Glass: Creates a layer of clear or colored glass over your selection. Yes Yes Gradient Glow: Create a variety of realistic glows around the outside edge of a selection, including complex color gradients. Yes — HSB Noise: Allows you to add visual noise to a selection by varying Hue, Saturation, Brightness and other values. Yes — Jiggle: Produces a powerful distortion based on randomly-spaced bubbling. Yes — Marble: Creates a variety of realistic marble textures, including full control over the color, size and shape of the rock and vein features. Yes Yes Melt: Turns up the heat on any image, creating the appearance of melting, including the pooling of the selection at the bottom of the melted area. Yes — Motion Trail: Draws a trail from the selection to create the appearance of rapid movement. Yes — Shadowlab: Easily creates drop and perspective shadows that add a 3-D quality to any document. Yes Yes Smoke: Creates billowing smoke, haze, fog, fumes and more. Yes — Squint: Creates realistic organic blurring by spreading each pixel in your selection around the edge of a circle. Yes — Star: Creates stars and other regular polygon shapes without the need to import them from another program. Yes — Swirl: Smears your selection using randomly-placed whirlpools. Yes — Water Drops: Creates a variety of realistic liquid shapes and textures in any color. Yes — Weave: Recreates your selection to give it the appearance of being woven. Yes — Wood: Creates a variety of realistic wood effects, including control over the grain, knots and rings in the wood. Yes —
version 4.0.1 to version 4.3.0
CompatibilityArchitecture: PPC PPC (Carbonized)
Minimum System requirements:
- PowerPC processor
- Mac OS 8.6
- 32 MB of physical RAM
- Color monitor with 24-bit video card
Minimum Host application requirements:
- Adobe Photoshop 4.0 or later (Carbon requires Photoshop 5.5 or later)
- Macromedia Fireworks 2 or later (all filters work as "live effects" in Fireworks 3)
- Adobe ImageReady 1.0 or later
- Deneba Canvas 6.0 or later
The classic version (Top DL) runs fine in Photoshop 7.0.1 in Mac OS's up to 9.2.2, but only under a native classic Mac OS. That is; not in Photoshop 7.x under OS X.
The Carbon release (2nd DL) runs fine in Photoshop 7.0.1 under both a native Mac OS 9 and a PPC Mac OS X 10.1 and newer.
Eye Candy 4000 was carbonized for full OS X compatibility in 2002. The final update (4th DL), version 4.3.0 is from 2005 and is for Mac OS X only.
[See Also] Alien Skin's Black Box 2.0 and Eye Candy 3.0 for earlier versions of these Photoshop plug-in filters.
Comments
Interestingly, Eye Candy 4000 continued to be patched until perhaps 2006 - it went to version 4.3.0, for OS X only.
This was so highly valued way back when, brings back so many memories