Eye Candy 4000 Filter Tutorial-Introduction and new features

Tutorial | Filter Alien SKIN SOFTWARE Company released its famous photoshop filter EYE CANDY 4000 Official edition on October 26, I download and try it, and it is a well-deserved reputation, now its detailed use of the guide to chiselled readers.
The EYE CANDY 4000 Official edition is the built-in 23 kinds of filters The suite, may produce in the extremely short time endless various special effects, whether is first to meddle, or is familiar, you can rely on the EYE CANDY 4000 easily to realize the general situation, is difficult to realize, Or can not achieve the image processing purposes, in many PHOTOSHOP filter plug-ins, EYE CANDY 40,001 straight to maintain a high status, in my case, EYE CANDY 4000 is the first contact with the author, clearly indicated with the Photoshop 6.0 official version of the plug-in compatible.
EYE CANDY 4000 Official version of the size of the 1m,demo version of 0.98M, unlike other filters, fewer than a few m, a number of 10 m, but though small, spite.
Installation Requirements: ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 4.0 or higher (EYE CANDY 4000 is fully compatible with PS6);
adobe ImageReady 1.0 or higher;
macromedia FIREWORKS 2.0 or higher;
JASC PAINT Shop PRO 5.0 or higher;
corel Photo-paint 8 or higher;
deneba CANVAS 6.0 or higher.
In the demo version, only the glass,marble and Shadow lab three filters can be applied, and the other 20 effects can only be previewed, not applied, or saved. But I have a stupid method, to avoid this limitation, is to use screenshots software Crawl preview screen, COPY, and then paste to PS6, of course, the effect is not the best.

New features of EYE CANDY 4000 Official edition
1, a new interface: in the retention of 3.1 version of the interface of the compact, neat and easy to use the style at the same time, EYE CANDY 4000 introduced a number of new operating instructions, in order to enable users to quickly grasp the use of each filter, EYE CANDY 4000 for all elements of the mouse synchronization instructions system, If a filter does not have too many control sliders, these control sliders appear as tabs to facilitate action. Many filters have light, color, and bevel labels.
2, Bevel Profile Editor: In Bevel boss,chrome and glass three filters, there are bevel profiles editor, users can use the editor to fully control the shape of the bevel and curve effect, using bevel profile Settings can also be named and saved for later use, and the program also provides a number of preset effects to help users take full advantage of this new feature.
3, Color Editor: In the fire, gradient GLOW, smoke and star four filters with a gradient editor, users can use the gradient editor to generate a variety of color effects, color exchange points and various colors of the opacity can be controlled, it is easy to generate rainbow, Halo, fever, light and a variety of colorful effects, and the eyedropper tool can facilitate the user in the preview window at any location to quickly pick color.
4, Real absolute parameter unit (for Photoshop only): For ordinary users, one of the most important changes in EYE CANDY 4000 is not only a change in the interface, now, by specifying absolute units can be generated with an image-independent effect, in EYE CANDY 4000, The parameters of various sliders are based on the measured units (such as inches, centimeters, etc.) selected by the user in Photoshop, that is, the effect of the various parameter settings under the 300DPI solution image condition will be identical to the effect under 72dpi conditions. This feature can certainly save a lot of time for graphic designers who often engage in printing from print to Web publishing or prepress proofs through a display.
5, Seamless puzzle: In Fur, HSB noise, jiggle, MARBLE, Swiral, WATER. Drops and wood filters enable seamless Jigsaw, so it's easy to create texture backgrounds for Web pages, games, and multimedia imagery.
The redo/undo instruction in the Edit menu of the infinite undo/redo:eye CANDY 4000 is infinite. 6.
7, Menu: In the original 3.1 version, there is no menu interface, while the Eye CANDY 4000 interface not only increases the menu function, but also the various commands in the menu provide a new selection function, for example, in the "Filter" menu, users can directly switch between the various filters, There is no need to return to PS to repeat the operation, other menus have edit,view,settings and help, but in Help, the author does not see the real help file, somehow.
8, bottom layer visible large preview window: Compared with previous versions, the preview window of EYE CANDY 4000 is much larger, the view is more convenient, and the window size is adjustable. In addition, the show all LAYERS directive in the Edit menu enables users to preview the effect of applying a filter to a visual image that contains layers.
9, new "Settings" menu: In the "Settings" menu, there are "preset" and "Settings" items, users can set the parameters of the clock to name, save, users can even reset as a part of the program "preset" parameters, and, more wonderful, All the parameter settings can be exchanged by e-mail with others, can be used across the platform between Mac and Windows, it is very convenient.
"Live effects" in 10, Firework 3 and CARVAS7: All filters in EYE CANDY 4000 can work in the "Live FIREWORK3" mode in CARVAS7 and effects, that is to say, When a user makes a change to an object that has a filter applied to it, the filter effect is also automatically updated, and even after the filter is applied, the effect can be readjusted by double-clicking the effect picture, the filter window automatically pops up, and then the parameter is reset.
General introduction of Operation interface
The following illustration is a typical eye CANDY4000 filter action interface diagram:

The menus for each filter's operating interface are the same, made up of edit, FILTER, VIEW, settings, and help five menus:
Menu Edit: A total of five commands, respectively, are undo, REDO, Cut, copy and paste;
Menu filter: For all filters by name list, easy to switch between the filters, in addition to the next and previons two commands, is used for the switch between the tested filter;
Menu View: There are four commands, ZOOM in, to enlarge the view, ZOOM out to zoom out the view, ACTUAL pixels for the original size view, show all layers for (PS only) whether all layers are displayed, tick, and all PS layers, Otherwise, only the current edit layer is displayed;
Menu settings: A total of three command groups, the first group is save and manage. The Save command names the current filter parameter, and manage is used to manage the individual parameter filters that have been saved, with a list of each saved filter name in the window, which can be deleted and changed. The second group has only one command, reset to Factorydefault, which restores the parameters to the default state, while the third group is a list of the different parameter effects of the program preset and the name of the filter effect that the user fills in with the same manage window. It is easy to switch between the effects of different parameters.
Under the menu bar is a variety of parameters to set the slider or option, is eye CANDY 4000 most important content, but also the user to frequently use things, the details of the filter according to the different changes. There are generally three ways to adjust parameters: (1) slider, (2) button, (3) number.
On the right side of the eye CANDY 4000 operator interface is the preview window, can be synchronized view different parameters effect, preview window of the upper left has a navigation window, palm tools and magnification tools, navigation window is the thumbnail of the picture, there is a red box, called the Navigation box, moving, you can achieve the preview window in different locations of the picture view , palm tools and magnification tools are the same as other programs, and CTRL + Left is to enlarge the preview view, Alt + Left is to zoom out of view.
At the top right of the preview window is the OK and Cancel buttons, OK is to apply the filter to the main program, Cancel applies the filter. At the bottom of the operating interface is the InfoBar, which explains the function of the parameter options, and the right side shows the current preview window's zoom and process.