With the Snowflakes plug-in you can create
any type of snow you can imagine, ranging from mild and fluffy
snowfall to heavy hailstorms and anything in between.With the Snowflakes plug-in you can create
any type of snow you can imagine, ranging from mild and fluffy
snowfall to heavy hailstorms and anything in between.
Snowflakes includes sliders which
allow you to change all aspects of the effect. With density you can
smoothly change between a few flakes and more than fit the screen.
You can also specify the range of flake sizes, allowing you to have
all the flakes of equal size, be it small or large or any mixture
in-between.
Couple the previous controls with a hardness settings, which allows you you to give the snowflakes hard edges or very soft ones, and a transparency setting and you can use this plug-in to create perlin-noise like textures such as wool, dust and the resulting images can even be used as the source for a 3D landscape. Fluffy clouds and water surfaces are also possible by just shifting the controls.
An extra color setting allows for
completely different effects such as a festive confetti or romantic
rose-leaves falling down. Predefined colors will help you get the
effect you want quickly or you can use a custom color for your own
personal taste. A random seed control allows you to use another
random placement for the dots only when you want to, allowing you
to mix different settings by rendering the snowflakes in multiple
passes.
The space-scene on the left
shows yet another application for the Snowflakes plug-in; the stars
at the back were created by using small snowflake sizes and low
density. The stars are slightly softened, making them look somewhat
blurred.
As with all our products, utmost care has been taken to assure the highest possible quality, performance and compatibility. At their hardest setting, the snowflakes are perfectly anti-aliassed, at their softest, they are smoothly shaded dots. The effect will render equally beautiful on RGB, grayscale or Duotone modes, with or without (partial) transparency.
We have used only the finest of mathematics (floating point precision math wherever possible) to bring you sub-pixel level accuracy and full scalability; create an effect in a small-sized copy (as Adobe themselves recommend) and it will look identical on the full-sized image. You can save and reload the settings and it will look perfect every time.
If you require more information or support then just e-mail us at support@vanderlee.com.
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Netherlands.