Despite recent advancements in digital photography, pictures rarely come out of the digital camera or scanner in perfect condition. They need to be enhanced in software.This package contains plug-ins for Photoshop and compatible image editors to allow you do that quickly, completely, and efficiently.Numerous filters are included in this collection. They range from high quality corrective filters to the wildest of special effects.
*First of all, these routines work fast. They are written in 100% Assembly language. That is the only programming language that controls the microprocessor directly.
I don’t want to bore you with tech talk. Let’s just say that all other languages are designed to make it easy on the programmer. They produce bloated software which does many unnecessary things.
Sort of like traveling from Los Angeles to San Francisco via New York. Or even Paris. Without the sight-seeing.
That will get you there, naturally, it just takes longer. Assembly language makes it hard on the programmer but easy on the program user.
*The library also is very small. It does not require much memory to run in: Just kilobytes, not megabytes. This is another advantage of the no-detour assembly language.
*The routines are very flexible. Whenever possible they control each of the three channels (that is, red, green, and blue) separately. That makes them go beyond the usual effect they produce ordinarily.
* Most of these routines can automatically set the opacity of their effect. It works similar to Photoshop layers.
It is as if you created a duplicate Layer, applied the effect, then set the opacity of that layer, and finally combined it with the original image to make the effect less pronounced. Or more.
I don’t know why everyone only thinks of opacity Between 0 - 100%. There is no reason for opacity not to go beyond 100%, or even to be Negative.
