

Inpaint 5.5 is a photo retouching tool for removing unwanted objects from pictures, retouching scratches, hiding background objects, and obliterating those annoying camera time stamps.
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Snap Art 4 costs $99 and integrates with Adobe’s Photoshop and Lightroom plus Apple’s Aperture and can be launched as a stand-alone application.Ĭontinuing a trend I’ve noticed since the launch of Photoshop CC, TeoreX’s Inpaint is an application, where as before it might have been designed as a plug-in. The dark color scheme reduces distractions around the image and a new visual preset browser shows how each preset will look when applied to an image.

The plug-in has a redesigned user interface with improved speed and was fast and responsive on my older Mac Pro. For more control, Snap Art’s masking tool brings out extra detail in areas that need it. Snap Art 4 can render your images using hundreds of different kinds of styles and media, such as oil paint, pencil sketch, watercolor, and crayon, and mimics techniques that real artists apply like layered brush strokes and edge enhancements.
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You can think of it is as a form of digital meditation.Īlien Skin Software’s Snap Art 4 can transform a photograph into a “beautiful work of art” that looks completely handcrafted and, of all the software that I’ve tried, this plug-in makes the process easy, fun, and, best of all, produces great-looking results. It’s personal projects like this that help us all stretch our talent, skill, and imagination. It wasn’t made for any commercial purpose and is just a way for me to appreciate and document the small things of daily life that many people take for granted.

That’s where self-assignments come in: for the past 30 years mine has been making images that I can walk to from my front door-like the tiny flower in my front yard I captured this afternoon. Many people think they need to travel far from home to make photographs when, chances are, if they took the time to look around they would discover that photo ops are right around the corner. I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”-Elliott Erwitt It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place. “To me, photography is an art of observation.
