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Permanent Press Image Filter - New Photoshop Plugin From Mister Retro
August 12, 2008
With Permanent Press, a powerful and easy-to-use Photoshop plug-in, you can create professional quality vintage offset printing and ink effects with any design, photograph, type treatment or image. Realizing that printing technology has left printed work without the texture, soul, or the spirit of vintage printing, Mister Retro created
the Permanent Press Photoshop Plugin set.
Take any design, photograph, type treatment, or image and transport them to another time and aesthetic with this powerful and easy-to-use plug-in GUI interface (see interface details below). Here are some of the features of Permanent Press:
Type Treatments
Whether you're looking for that vintage offset look or an authentic letterpress effect, now you can make your type shine with these authentic printing effects.
Designs
Take your designs to the next level with these amazing filters. Give your designs an authentic pop of realism and a genuine tactile feel.
Photographs
Transport any photograph back in time to reproduce them in glorious vintage colors and effects. Make any photo look like an authentic CMYK reproduced prined image or turn it into a stylized illustration.
Line Art
Don't settle for ine art right out of the box. Make your line art images into something memorable and dymanic with Permanent Press. Whether you want it to look like it was printed on a matchbook or simply pulled off a vintage advertisement, Permanent Press makes any line art image even better.
About Permanent Press
Back in 1940, if a company wanted to print a book of matches, a poster or playbill, or run a full-color advertisement in a major publication, they needed to use the services of a qualified printer and lithographer.
The job of the lithographer would be to take the original artwork, mechanical layouts and photographs and convert them so they could be reproduced in any number of offset printing processes. Once their work was completed, it was up to the printer to select the appropriate ink and stock to run the job.
While these skilled laborers were working with the state-of-the-art equipment in 1940, the state-of-the-art was far less sophisticated than we are used to in present day. Even in the most competent hands, printing and lithography equipment lacked precision and often times created less than desireable results.
As time went on and printing processes and equipment improved, we're now able to reproduce printed items that look exactly as we intend them to. While this we delight in as the miracle of technology, we have also lost the charm of printing's earlier years. Gone are the days of plate offset, over-inking, mis-registration, and a host of other resulting conditions sure to cause printers hair to prematurely fall out. Many times these artifacts presented to designers happy accidents only realized after the job was run. That is until now... Go to the Mister Retro website for more info on pricing and system requirements for Permanent Press Photoshop Plugin set..
Permanent Press GUI Interface
Permanent Press features five different tabbed sections of the GUI interface to create and fine tune the plug-in effects.
A: Ink Plate Navigation
The Ink Plate drop down menu at the very top of the GUI is located in the same position on every tabbed section of the GUI and will become the primary method to toggle between each Ink Plate you'd like to work with.
B: Tabbed Sections
All Permanent Press filter controls are grouped on tabs according to their function. Click on a tab name to switch to that related subset of controls. Each tabbed section correlates to an actual printing effect making them easy to learn quickly.
C: Controls
Sliders, color swatches, check boxes, and radio buttons appear along the left side of the GUI window in their respective tabbed section. All related controls are grouped into specific dialog boxes in each section.
D: User Settings
The User Settings dialog allows you to create and save or apply previously used settings to the image you're working with. Permanent Press ships with over thirty amazing settings that show the range of the filters effects.
E: Zoom and Magnification Indicator
Click the magnifying glass icons to Zoom in or Zoom out respetive to its icon. The current level of magnification is shown between these icons.
F: OK and Cancel Buttons
Once you're satisfied with the Permanent Press effect you've created, click the OK button to apply the Permanent Press effect to your image. Clicking the Cancel button closes the filter window without applying the effect.
G: Render Status Bar
The rectangle just below the Preview Window is the Render Status bar. As an effect is being rendered in the preview, this rectangle displays the amount of rendering that has been completed.
H: Preview Window
As you work with the filter controls, you can preview the effect on your image here.
I: About and Help Dialogs
If you want to check for the latest version of the plug-in, textures, or presets, simply click on the Permanent Press title at the top of the GUI to launch the About dialog where you'll see the Get Updates and Tutorials buttons which link to their respective locations via a web browser where they can be easily downloaded and installed.
Learn more about the Permanent Press Photoshop Plugin set. at the Mister Retro website.
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