This is a big improvement and more controlled approach than the regions method used in Snap Art 2.Įven in this low resolution sample you can easily see how applying alternate settings using layers in Snap Art 3 better preserves the detail around her facial features. In the dialog above I selected eyes, hair, and mouth to apply settings to better preserve details in these areas. The Layers Tab allows you to quickly and easily select areas of the photo for tweaked settings. On the right side are the tabs for Background, Layers, Color, and Canvas with a clean, well-designed interface to tweak the setting for each. Since Snap Art 2 was the best plugin for this type of thing out of many I have tried, I guess that makes Snap Art 3 the new go-to plugin when I need this kind of conversion. I tried all of these out and they are significantly improved from Snap Art 2. These include: Color Pencil, Comics, Crayon, Impasto, Oil Paint, Pastel, Pen & Ink, Pencil Sketch, Pointillism, Stylize, and Watercolor. The left side contains a long list of factory presets for all the various drawing and painting effects available in the latest version of Snap Art. Next I loaded up a photo in Photoshop and launched the Snap Art 3 plugin.
The tutorials quickly brought me up to speed on the new Snap Art 3 interface and explained some of the enhancements. They don’t get bogged down in a lot of unnecessary details, just a quick look at the specific settings for the topic.
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