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Auto FX Mystical Tint Tone And Color Photoshop Plugins And Corel Painter Bundle Special Deal
April 26, 2008

Auto FX Software is pleased to announce the release of the Mystical Painter Bundle. This is an exclusive, value packed Bundle of product that includes Corel Painter X, Auto FX Mystical Tint Tone and Color, Auto FX Mystical Lighting, Training Videos by renowned Painter Master Jeremy Sutton, Mystical Tint Tone and Color Training Videos and Mystical Lighting Training Videos. The Bundle is valued at $900 and is being sold for only $349 offering customers a savings of over $550! This promotion is valid from April 15th through August 31st, 2008.

The Mystical Painter Bundle is available for purchase exclusively from the Auto FX Software website: www.autofx.com. This bundle is available for both Microsoft Windows XP & Vista users as well as for Macintosh OS X through Leopard, including support for Universal binary for Intel-based Macintosh computers. To learn more about the Mystical Painter Bundle visit the Auto FX Site.

About Corel Painter X
Corel Painter X is the world's most powerful Natural-Media painting and illustration software. It features unique digital brushes, art materials and textures that mirror the look and feel of their traditional counterparts. Setting the standard for digital painting and illustration, this digital art studio introduces new composition tools, unparalleled performance, and the RealBristle™ painting system that models traditional brushes like never before - right down to individual bristles on the brush!



About Mystical Lighting
Mystical Lighting allows users to improve the look and feel of their images by controlling the very essence of photography: lighting and shading. The photo-realistic, natural results you can achieve are visually stunning. Mystical Lighting includes powerful features like layers, layer presets that record and replay effects, masking layers and unlimited undo capability. Using this feature rich application the user can work in a high-grade visual imaging environment to achieve breathtaking results in minutes. Mystical Lighting includes 16 unique visual effects that are dynamically generated and offer an infinite variety of styles to choose from: Edge Highlights ~ Ethereal ~ FairyDust ~ Flare ~ Light Brush ~ Light Caster ~ Mist ~ Mottled Background ~ Radial Light Caster ~ Rainbow ~ Shader ~ Shading Brush ~ ShadowPlay ~ Spotlight ~ SurfaceLight ~ Wispy Mist.

About Mystical Tint Tone and Color
Mystical Tint Tone and Color is an amazing color, tinting and tonal adjustment product that lets you quickly and easily edit with brush on / brush off controls. Create hand tinted photos and antique photos, brush on to underexpose or overexpose photos or apply any of the 38 unique color filters to your images.

These filters can be stacked using layer controls with full opacity blending. Winner of the American Photo Editor’s Choice award, this product is a real find for anyone serious about color editing. Includes the following 38 filters: Antique Photo ~ Black and White ~ Blue Sky ~ Color Bleach ~ Color Contrast ~ Color Mixer ~ Cool ~ Dark Contrast ~ Darken Colors ~ Deepen Tones ~ Enriched Black ~ Gradient Tinting ~ Green Foliage ~ Hand Tint ~ Hard Posterize Harden Details ~ HSB Adjust ~ Image Brush ~ Levels ~ Multiply Darks ~ Over Exposed ~ Restore Detail ~ RGB Adjust ~ Saturate Colors ~ Sepia ~ Soft Posterize ~ Soft Saturation ~ Soften Details ~ Tonal Contrast ~ Tonal Detail ~ Tonal Sharpen ~ Tonal Smooth ~ Tonal Soften ~ Under Color ~ Under Exposed ~ Vitality ~ Warm ~ Washed Out.

About Jeremy Sutton Training Videos
For guidance and inspiration, customers can access a new collection of 22 downloadable step-by-step QuickTime formatted training videos created by well-known Corel Painter Master Jeremy Sutton. By watching these videos, artists can learn new techniques to create original works of breathtaking art. An hour and a half of detailed instructional video is provided to guide the user through creating amazing works of art.

About Mystical Lighting Training Videos
Mystical Lighting Training Videos include two full featured CD’s containing 34 video titles with 2 hours and 30 minutes of instruction time. Learning how to use Mystical Lighting has never been easier. These training videos will teach you techniques for applying lighting and shading, shadows, streaming sunshine, rainbows and other visual effects to your images. Each effect in the suite is covered with real-world examples and an abundance of techniques. By watching these videos you will be taught advanced techniques, tricks, and tips on how to get the most from the software. Movie titles are presented in high-quality QuickTime format.

About Mystical Tint Tone and Color Training Videos
Mystical Tint Tone and Color Training Videos include two full featured CD’s containing 44 video titles with 2 hours and 30 minutes of instruction time. These training videos will teach you techniques for applying each of the 38 visual effects and using many of the powerful editing features included with the software. It includes real-world examples as well as methods to enhance and correct tints, tones and colors in any image. Movie titles are presented in high-quality QuickTime format.

The Mystical Painter Bundle is available for purchase exclusively from the Auto FX Software website: www.autofx.com. The Bundle is valued at $900 and is being sold for only $349 offering customers a savings of over $550. This promotion ends August 31st, 2008.

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SiteGrinder Photoshop Plugin - Create Websites Instantly

There often seems to be a strict division of labor within the world of web design and development. Creative professionals tend to stick to the Photoshop domain, while those well-versed in scripting are left to the task of implementing their work. Indeed, the two realms are quite different from each other, to which any of us even vaguely familiar with either can easily attest.

Essentially, Photoshop is a no-holds-barred design studio, offering the artist a seemingly endless array of creative options. On the other hand, HTML, CSS, Java and the like follow strict rules of engagement, requiring the developer to take any number of esoteric concerns into consideration in order to ensure that designs are properly displayed on the web.

Turn Photoshop Into A Complete Web Design Tool
SiteGrinder seeks to bridge this gap between design and development. Basically, this program turns Photoshop into an easy-to-use and fully functional web design tool. With SiteGrinder, designers will now have the freedom to totally let their creativity loose and then, without skipping a beat, transfer their designs to the web. Bringing esthetic concerns together with more practical considerations, this program is an amazingly powerful tool that would make a fantastic addition to any web designer's bag of tricks.

Generate Your Web Pages Directly From Photoshop
By generating web pages directly from Photoshop, you'll be able to spend much more time on the creative end of the spectrum, since you'll know right off the bat how well particular designs will translate to the web. No more going back to the Photoshop drawing board after getting a phone call from your development team, telling you that what you had envisioned doesn't have a chance of being displayed on the web. You can immediately visually and interactively test your designs, which permits you to then make changes to either esthetics or functions while it's still relatively early on in the design process.

Pricing and Availability
Mac OS X and Windows versions of the SiteGrinder unlockable demo are available now via download. SiteGrinder can be ordered from Media Lab's online store.

Photoshop CS3 Upgrade Options And Bundles From The Adobe Store

Photoshop CS3 Extended is ideal for film, video, and multimedia pros and for graphic and web designers using 3D and motion. Get the full version for US $999, or upgrade for US $349. The standard version of Photoshop CS3 is available for US $649, or as an upgrade for US $199. See all upgrade options at the Adobe Store. See our CS3 Resource Center for free Photoshop CS3 tutorials.

Photoshop Extended is also available as part of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium, which combines all-new CS3 versions of Photoshop, Flash Pro, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, InDesign and Acrobat 8 Pro. Upgrade options for customers in Europe, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Asia can be found at the Adobe International Store.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Available At The Adobe Store

There are tons of new features in Adobe Lightroom 1.0 that you won't find in the beta version. From Clone and Healing functionality to metadata browsing, you'll be able to free-up post-processing time like never before. Get it now at the Adobe Store. Customers in Europe, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Asia can find special pricing and offers at the Adobe International Store. For free Lightroom tutorials see our Lightroom tutorials page.

Photoshop Masking Plugin Fluid Mask 3 - $15 Discount Special

The 4 1/2 out of 5 star review of Fluid Mask 3 at MacWorld begins by saying that this "Photoshop plug-in takes the pain out of extracting backgrounds," and goes on to recommend the latest version, stating that "Fluid Mask 3.0.2 is a very effective tool for separating objects from their backgrounds. It offers a variety of useful features for tackling almost any difficult image, from wispy hair to complex foliage. Online video tutorials and live training sessions help ease the learning curve."

Our friends at Vertus, the makers of Fluid Mask 3 Photoshop Plugin, have set up a special exclusive discount for PhotoshopSupport.com. Just follow this discount link and instantly get $15 off your purchase of Fluid Mask 3.

Fluid Mask 3 is designed for photographers, image editors, graphic designers and all those who take digital image editing seriously. In a streamlined interface and workflow, Fluid Mask 3 instantly shows key edges in the image and provides comprehensive easy to use tools that work with difficult-to-see edges and tricky areas like trees & lattices. Features include: