Automating Photoshop Using Actions

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Saturday, October 11, 2003

XENOFEX 2 FILTER

Xenofex 2 is a plugin pack from one of the most popular plugins for Photoshop, Eye Candy. This pack of filters is compatible with Photoshop, Fireworks and Paintshop Pro.

It comes with a set of 14 effects. Some of the effects can be seen in the adjoining graphics. It has four more filters than its first version and a new interface that is similar to Eye Candy. The interface is user-friendly, non-jazzy, non-cluttered and easy to use. It is divided into three main parts; menus, filter settings and preview pane. 

There is a filters menu that lets you change the filter directly from the interface, so you don’t have to go back to the Photoshop GUI. There are also exciting filters like Rip Open, Lightning, Stain, Mosaic, Electrify, Crumble, little Fluffy Clouds, Puzzle etc. All the filters, except Shatter (that does not work in the CMYK mode), can work in all the color modes. 

The settings menu has an options for saving your own settings also. The preview pane has its own zoom and pan buttons as well as extra buttons. 

Another good feature is that it supports undo inside the filter environment only, so if you don’t like a particular setting, you can simply undo it. Altogether, a good basic collection of filters!

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