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Alien Skin Eye Candy 4000

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Category:	Plug-ins Visual Arts & Graphics
Year released:	2000
Author:	Alien Skin Software
Publisher:	Alien Skin Software

[www]_.se [ftp]_.se [mirror]_.us
eye_candy_4000.sit (995.99 KB)
MD5: 9d91ae11f402711d8a56950e8229539d
For Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6 - Mac OS X

[www]_.se [ftp]_.se [mirror]_.us
Eye-Candy-4K-Carbon.sit (3.01 MB)
MD5: b3675bbb1dd9be2b9e2ccc3fd8a1b75a
For Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6 - Mac OS X

[www]_.se [ftp]_.se [mirror]_.us
eye-candy-4k-demo.sit (3.42 MB)
MD5: 33ae1385a064bd49f116064b1de48c04
For Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6 - Mac OS X

[www]_.se [ftp]_.se [mirror]_.us
Eye-Candy-4K-Update.zip (1.83 MB)
MD5: dfd1282ae045ea71fe47fdb00ed28a0d
For Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6 - Mac OS X

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eye_candy_4000_docs.pdf

Emulation
This app works with: SheepShaver,

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.

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

Compatibility
Architecture: 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

by MikeTomTom - 2016, October 8 - 11:21pm

brings back so many memories

Interestingly, Eye Candy 4000 continued to be patched until perhaps 2006 - it went to version 4.3.0, for OS X only.

by fogWraith - 2016, October 8 - 9:45pm

This was so highly valued way back when, brings back so many memories